On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > (Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to collaborative open-source > development, so apologies if I'm breaking a rule of etiquette here.) > > I notice that someone recently changed the way the "source" key is > represented in map_features.xml. Since I disagree with part of the > change (changing it from presence="always" to presence="onTagMatch" > with a priority of "lowest"), I thought I'd bring it up for debate. > > In my view, the source key is crucial to every object. The editor > should be doing everything it can to encourage people to fill it in. > That means placing it full view, on the Basic tab for every object. If > it's blank, that's essentially an error that should be corrected. > (Whereas there is such a thing as a street with no name, there is > really no such thing as an object with no source.) > > Secondly, it's a usability thing. Since you need to populate the > source key for every object you create, this change means the user has > to switch to the "Misc" tab (scrolling across...) > > Lastly, a broader question: is there a reason to limit the number of > tags with presence="always"? We're a long way from overcrowding out > that page. There are lots of objects with no properties at all except > name and source - it seems pretty dopey to show only the name on the > Basic tab, and the source on the Misc tab. > > Thoughts? > > Steve
While I agree that source is an important tag, source:* (such as source:name) are equally as important and should also be considered if there will be changes to the tag editor interface. _______________________________________________ Potlatch-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev
