[OSM-talk] Validator tags

[Matthias Julius]

Patrick Kilian <osm at petschge.de> writes:

> The patch at http://www.petschge.de/osm/ignore-tags/maplint.patch
> modifies the maplint checks to suppress the warning / error if a tag
> with validate:$testname=ignore is present on the object.

I have been wanting something like this.

> A tag of k="validate" v="ignore" would disable ALL checks in maplint for
> this object. This should only be used if no other more specific tag work.

I don't think this is a good idea.  If a more specific tag does not
work it needs to be made to work.  With a general validate=ignore it
will be used even if there is a specific tag available and nobody will
convert its uses once a specific tag becomes available.

Matthias