Re: [josm-dev] true/false against yes/no

2008-07-12 Thread Mark Williams
OTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Stöcker >> Sent: 10 July 2008 3:01 PM >> To: josm-dev@openstreetmap.org >> Subject: [josm-dev] true/false against yes/no >> >> Hello, >> >> the Tagging Preset menu uses the values true/false for boolean elements, >> whereas t

Re: [josm-dev] true/false against yes/no

2008-07-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Objections against this? as it was requested by mappers, it would be cool. Non-geeks do understand yes/no only. To please people who are used to true/false, was it possible to read and write true/false if it exists and only use yes/no for newly created values? Best regards, ce __

Re: [josm-dev] true/false against yes/no

2008-07-10 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Behalf Of Dirk Stöcker >Sent: 10 July 2008 3:01 PM >To: josm-dev@openstreetmap.org >Subject: [josm-dev] true/false against yes/no > >Hello, > >the Tagging Preset menu uses the values true/false for boolean elements, >whereas the majority of mappers seems to use the human stri

Re: [josm-dev] true/false against yes/no

2008-07-10 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Roland Ramthun wrote: >> I would like to fix the code accordingly and switch to using yes/no. >> Objections against this? > > If you use true/false, everyone who didn't sleep at school knows that it > is a boolean value with only two possible values. Well, but that's not true

Re: [josm-dev] true/false against yes/no

2008-07-10 Thread Roland Ramthun
Dirk Stöcker schrieb: > I would like to fix the code accordingly and switch to using yes/no. > Objections against this? If you use true/false, everyone who didn't sleep at school knows that it is a boolean value with only two possible values. yes/no is not that clear. I personally wouldn't ch

Re: [josm-dev] true/false against yes/no

2008-07-10 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 16:01 +0200, Dirk Stöcker wrote: > Hello, > > the Tagging Preset menu uses the values true/false for boolean elements, > whereas the majority of mappers seems to use the human strings yes/no. > > I would like to fix the code accordingly and switch to using yes/no. > Object

[josm-dev] true/false against yes/no

2008-07-10 Thread Dirk Stöcker
Hello, the Tagging Preset menu uses the values true/false for boolean elements, whereas the majority of mappers seems to use the human strings yes/no. I would like to fix the code accordingly and switch to using yes/no. Objections against this? To clearify: This does not affect existing tags,