[OSM-talk] OSM tagging validation lib

[Simon Poole]

On the one hand lots of the in principle useful information in the wiki
is not really easily extractable and on the other hand it is prone to
manipulation in more than one way (current fad is to add big warnings
about tagging errors what are not).

IMHO addressing the first issue would likely be more helpful and perhaps
allow the generation of at least rudimentary presets directly from the
wiki (potentially with support from taginfo).

Simon



On 24.12.2017 12:54, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> > conform validation to wiki
>
> Sometimes wiki is wrong and should be changed. 
>
> Note also that authors of different tools have different opinions how
> and what should be reported as errors.
>
>
> On 24 Dec 2017 11:12 a.m., "François Lacombe"
> <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com <mailto:fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     Here is an idea I got regarding tagging validation in editors (iD,
>     JOSM, others).
>     Subsequently to wiki proposal voting and cleanups, it's currently
>     necessarily to open issues in each editor repository to ask for
>     new tagging validation rules. 
>
>     It can sometimes be time consuming to develop those new rules and
>     such a work is done independently by each project maintainer.
>     While each project have its own specific components, background
>     logic is the same.
>
>     Would a new lib called like osmtagvalidator or so in charge of
>     doing conform validation to wiki be useful?
>     It may be shared by any project involved in osm editing and
>     preserve its resources for other valuable developments.
>
>     For me, validation doesn't prevent users to use tags they want,
>     but only warn them about possible mistakes.
>
>     How would devs and users feel about this?
>
>     All the best
>
>     François
>
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