[OSM-talk] OSM tagging validation lib

[Colin Smale]

Why bother anyway? Why not just leave it to FvGordon? 90k changesets
fixing other people's tagging errors... 

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/FvGordon/history

Actually, an analysis of all these changesets might produce some
interesting insights into "frequently made errors". 

//colin 

On 2017-12-26 13:24, Simon Poole wrote:

> We already have validation tools in many forms for post-editing
> validation and already know how difficult they are to get "right" (see
> OSMOSE complaining about P+R facilities for a trivial example). I don't
> quite see why there is a need to create yet another one/system.
> 
> On the other hand validation on upload is horrible from a UI and
> workflow point of view (which is why JOSMs warnings get ignored so
> often). IMHO preventing inadvertent mistakes to start with seems to be
> far better and that can be done with consistent presets (which might
> have to be localized) and editor support (see what Bryan has just done
> with creating area geometries in iD).
> 
> Simon
> 
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