On 2/19/12, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've just noticed that about a year ago, the "designation" tag was > added to the "common" inputSet, meaning it appears on a wide variety > of features: > https://github.com/stevage/potlatch2/commit/e1970c90ae07d1d1bb98692a80d2131ae115ae5e > > There are two issues with this: > 1) The "designation=*" tag is apparently only relevant to UK mappers. > (IMHO it's a bit redundant alongside highway=* and access=*, but > that's beside the point...) > 2) Putting it in this inputSet means it shows up on all kinds of > objects other than highway=*. > > Obviously 2) is easy to fix. But what about 1? Is it time we > implemented locale-specific map_features? IMHO it's incorrect to > display a region-specific tag like this to everyone in this way. I'm > guessing that's the cause of its misused here: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/143010599/history > > In the meantime, what can we do about it? > > Steve
In my country, we haven't decided on how to properly use the designation=* tag but these tags appear because of new users using Potlatch 2. Many of the values used are wrong such as names (e.g., designation=Masantol River). _______________________________________________ Potlatch-dev mailing list Potlatch-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev
