> No, it won't, for reasons already explained by Nop. Moreover the > current system has the distinct advantage that it can be used to > describe what's on the ground - a stroke of a pen on a planner's chart
I disagree, but as this is a distraction from the actual discussion at hand, I'll leave it. > Which is actually a different thing. What I'm suggesting is that > proposed and construction would be two more icons on the grid of road > types, whereas you are suggesting the "lifecycle" should be a dropdown > on every single one of the hundreds of thousands of normal roads. It's quite unfair to compare "two icons" against "hundreds of thousands of normal roads". The fair comparison would be a minimum of 3 icons (road, rail, footpath/cycleway) against one dropdown box. > Pretty unnecessary, imo. I think you're misunderstanding the current > purpose of the "simple" tab - providing a simple UI for the majority > of the mapping. Proposed buildings is pretty niche, and should be > incorporated in a way becoming of its niche-ness. Adding dropdowns > over every object for such a rare occurrence is the "messy" way. Ok, proposed buildings are niche. Roads under construction aren't. Maybe this is some philosophical difference we're going to need to debate out, but I see covering these tags properly as "comprehensive", "complete" and "thorough" - not "messy". Yes, the UI needs to be designed in a way to maximise access to common tagging tasks - I've even created tickets to that effect. But the trade-off you're suggesting between "simplicity" and completeness is artificial, imho. So here are three potential solutions: 1 put tags like this on a tab called "advanced", which "simple" users don't have to use. 2 hide tags like this unless some user option called "advanced" is enabled. 3 put tags like this only in an "enhanced" map_features.xml. >the tagging code is way complicated In CategorySelector? I'll have to have a look. Steve _______________________________________________ Potlatch-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev
