[OSM-talk] this has to stop: iD user mistakes all over the place

[Michał Brzozowski]

Whoops. Good to know. Though it's still rudimentary ;) Not long ago I
tried to do intentionally do stupid things in iD demo in order to see
if it would stop me - it didn't.

There's one more face to iD and mistakes users make: translations. Bad
translations cause bad tagging. English terms don't always translate
1:1 so I think it is beneficial for a translator to deviate a little
when needed. Example: "track" was translated to Polish as "droga
gruntowa" ("grunt" is "ground" so translated back to English it's
"unpaved road"). Which of course is a bad idea, as people will tag
every single unpaved road as highway=track. I took a little liberty
and changed that to "Droga polna lub leśna" ("Field or forest road")
which I think captures the essence more faithfully.

Michał

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Tom MacWright <tom at macwright.org> wrote:
> Since two years ago, iD has an range of validations it runs on every
> potential changeset, as well as an interface to review & correct potential
> errors before saving them.
>
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/master/js/id/validate.js#L1
>
> We welcome contributions to expand these, and have a few proposed additions
> which would be good places to start if you want to help:
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Avalidation