Global shared preset suggestions would be a wonderful addition. It will reduce typos and unneeded variations in tags. I would suggest a two fold weighted filter to limit the displayed list. A global or better country or area specific value, and a value for what is used in the open OSM file. The file contents being a higher weight. Anyone working on say hydro will not need motorway tags at the top of the list.
Regarding bots, perhaps a separate registration for bot accounts that can have more checks, or a review process. Basically a way to say this is not a human, and add methods to handle it differently on the server or community ends. Ideally I would think the current registration for users plus one for normal user application authors, and a third for bots. Bots being the registration of an automated application or script for a given user. In doing that it would be a lot easier to present more information to the bot user regarding behavior and review. Also setup sample runs against a dev server for review ect. Registering a bot being voluntary means there is not a good way to enforce this though. -- Dale Puch On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > >> I think it would be a good idea to create a repository of such tagging >> standards where everyone can create new standards to his heart's >> content, and the user of an editor can then select one of the existing >> standards (or create a new one). - That would most likely create a >> situation in which a few popular tagging standards emerge, and a certain >> competition among these will help create something really good in the >> long run without ever having to have something "authoritative". >> >> > I like this idea a lot, Frederik. I imagine something like a presets file > that all editors could parse to display commonly-used key/value pairs. Each > would have a description (optionally i18nized (so that "motorway" would > describe a "highway" in the US and an actual "motorway" in the UK)) and > perhaps could be auto-updated weekly from the planet file. > > That way JOSM and Potlatch could present suggestions that are broader than > just the currently-loaded OSM file (in JOSM's case) and some preset file (in > Potlatch's case). > > Perhaps some simplified editor could only show the top X values for a given > tag (ranked by use in the wild) while a more advanced editor could show a > whole lot more. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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