#3533: Misleading presets
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Reporter: kimaidou | Owner: potlatch-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: potlatch2 | Version:
Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: misleading preset tags
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Comment(by kimaidou):
Hi Richard. First I want to apologize if my post on osm-talk/fr sounds as
"whipping up a lynch mob on talk-fr". It is clearly not the case. If the
title is a little bit too much, when your read my message, you see that I
clearly diagree with closing this ticket, but I do not ask for lynch, but
explain my opinion and ask for help. In this message, I tried to say "this
is what I personnaly think", not "the dev is a noob", with moderation.
Now, I quite agree there is a pbm in "deciding" what is the "right" way of
tagging. Sometimes the wiki is well documented and the result of a
conciliation, sometimes only one person decided to change some tag. So you
are right : the wiki is not gold.
Let me make a proposal (while not reopen this ticket) : I think you have a
great opportunity to help novices (and more advanced users) to learn what
is underneath OSM = the tag. Why not add a small popup on hover for the
presest to tell the user what tags will be used ? This way we will know
what p2 is doing, and it won't lead to misunderstanding.
Sorry if I misunderstand your arguments, but I am just not confortable
with this kind of sentence in opensource community : "If you are concerned
with the actual tags used, you should use the Advanced view, or JOSM." .
It is a bit rough.
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