[OSM-talk] iD, exclusive use of tags

[Kathleen Danielson]

Hi Martin-- if I'm understanding you correctly, I actually took out a bug
about this, and got a response. Looks like this is a known issue-- you can
find it here: https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/1408


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I just discovered that iD presumes that some tags are exclusive, e.g. you
> can't add (at least not via preset) on the same way (line) more than one of
> these tags: highway, railway, power but afaik it is common practice to use
> railway=tram on the same way as highway=* (in certain circumstances).
>
> Right now when you click on "other" in this menu, the other tag that is
> considered "principal" by iD gets silently removed (e.g. if you click on a
> highway on "other", the highway-tag is removed).
>
> I'd consider both of these bugs, but would like to open a discussion what
> others think about "exclusive" tags.
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
> PS: Even if this might look like, I don't want to "bash" iD, I think it is
> a great piece of software, it simply needs some fine tuning.
>
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