[josm-dev] Possible patch to MessageNotifier : Offer mappers visibility into tag discussions

2015-03-24 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
This is a partially baked JOSM patch: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m1txareeowlnvc3/MessageNotifier.java?dl=0 The code is hacky and quickly done, but here's why I created it: The discussion around design of new tags has created a lot of complaints, but it also has a lot of value. One of the problems

Re: [josm-dev] Checking tags

2015-03-24 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
There's also a quantity check possible here. Some of the really bad edits and imports invent ALL their keys. The light red/light green helps for a careful mapper to avoid typos. But a validator check could have a threshold when, say, 50% or more of the keys used are new to the database. -

Re: [josm-dev] Checking tags

2015-03-24 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Jochen Topf wrote: This way we have: "light green" means "we know that tag and it's accepted". "grey" like now means any other tags but is actually a positive list of tags that are very common and/or docmented on the wiki etc. "light yellow" looks suspicious, take extra c

Re: [josm-dev] Checking tags

2015-03-24 Thread Jochen Topf
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:52:04AM +0100, Dirk Stöcker wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Jochen Topf wrote: > > >If we have a stricter list whats "green" we have two problems: a) Users might > >just ignore it and b) JOSM will even more than it does now, decide whats good > >and whats bad. And we (as d