(Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to collaborative open-source development, so apologies if I'm breaking a rule of etiquette here.)
I notice that someone recently changed the way the "source" key is represented in map_features.xml. Since I disagree with part of the change (changing it from presence="always" to presence="onTagMatch" with a priority of "lowest"), I thought I'd bring it up for debate. In my view, the source key is crucial to every object. The editor should be doing everything it can to encourage people to fill it in. That means placing it full view, on the Basic tab for every object. If it's blank, that's essentially an error that should be corrected. (Whereas there is such a thing as a street with no name, there is really no such thing as an object with no source.) Secondly, it's a usability thing. Since you need to populate the source key for every object you create, this change means the user has to switch to the "Misc" tab (scrolling across...) Lastly, a broader question: is there a reason to limit the number of tags with presence="always"? We're a long way from overcrowding out that page. There are lots of objects with no properties at all except name and source - it seems pretty dopey to show only the name on the Basic tab, and the source on the Misc tab. Thoughts? Steve _______________________________________________ Potlatch-dev mailing list Potlatch-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev
