Hi, >> to disable specific tests. If other variants (like unnamed=yes) or >> other namespaces for annotations (like the internal namespace) show >> up prominently enough I'll update maplint again to support those >> tags too. > > I think, we, as validation tools developpers/maintainer, have a > risponsability on the usage of users that we should handle with care. > > > The fact that maplint, or even my validator tool, makes use of > several different tags for the same purpose will inevitably lead to > confusion into the DB (and users mind) : Having different tags for > the same meaning is IMHO a "very" bad idea I agree, but...
> For instance, the fact that maplint supports noname=yes and the > validation: namespace and maybe one day the internal: namespace I've > proposed is bad. noname and validate are not really the same thing. "noname" say that something does not have a name. The validate namespace is a lot more universal in its goal. It aims to create a namespace for the selective disabling of all possible valiation tests. > The more is not the best. Of course not. I certainly don't want to support every possible tag for "this does not have a name". But only the most common one(s). > And I would prefere that they drop out of discussion instead of being > created "in the wild" and then show their bad aspects too late after > many have used them. At least for the noname case the discussion has been going on for quite some time and now consensus was reached. And so I went with the age old pardigm of crowd sourcing "Just do it". > are there anywhere I didn't found where validation: is documented ? It's documented on in the commit message and the announcement on this list. It has not been documented in the wiki yet a) because I had other things to do and b) because I expect that it would get deleted immediately by some wiki gardener anyway because I didn't wait for votes first. Patrick "Petschge" Kilian _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
