W dniu 19.06.2015 19:39, Richard Fairhurst napisał(a):
I'd be keen to do so. Last year P2 adopted the editor-imagery-index
which
Ian devised, and I don't see any reason not to do the same with tag
presets.
The one proviso is that sharing tag presets will be a bunch more
complicated
than sharing imagery sources, because they're typically not just
presented
as a simple list - there's a whole UI around them, and that UI differs
from
editor to editor. But that's no reason not to give it a go.
Oh, and you are also the one who started iD development (that's what
Wiki says =} ) - great! "Common set" makes sense only if there is more
than one entity using it, so I'd like to know if you think it can be
also used in iD?
And I'm still curious why JOSM developers didn't like the idea and if
there's a possibility to reconsider it?
Here's why: I'm a translator of JOSM to Polish for some time and I find
current state of presets to be kind of mess. They're very useful,
however they have to be treated with care, because mappers tend to rely
on the names. It is a serious task for one man to fix the translation of
one editor and make it unambiguous and coherent - but I guess I made it
to the level I think is sane (not perfect, though). But then we have
also the second very important editor which I don't use, so it's harder
for me to fix it. And we have a website with a great "?" (show objects
data) button, which uses its own set of names. It would be good to use
common names at least in those 3 important OSM sub-projects - and
probably on Wiki too...
I could start translating/fixing the presets in iD now if there's no way
to start sharing the presets in the reasonable timeframe. But I don't
want to loose my time if this common set can be deployed in the short
(or even medium) run. There are much more things I think are worth doing
in OSM and if we decide to share this resource, I would take care of
just one set, which would allow to have more coherency in the whole OSM
and give me more time to contribute to other parts of this project.
--
"The train is always on time / The trick is to be ready to put your bags
down" [A. Cohen]
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