Re: [Potlatch-dev] Designation tag on most map features

2012-02-24 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Firstly, we need the ability to load alternative map_features files. The reason that isn't implemented right now is because no-one has coded it. ;) Hmm, I wonder if potential contributors are possibly put off by the

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Designation tag on most map features

2012-02-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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Re: [Potlatch-dev] Designation tag on most map features

2012-02-20 Thread Andy Allan
On 19 February 2012 07:16, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously 2) is easy to fix. But what about 1? Is it time we implemented locale-specific map_features? I refer to them as region-specific map_features, not locale-specific map features - locale and language are too easily

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Designation tag on most map features

2012-02-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: Obviously 2) is easy to fix. But what about 1? Is it time we implemented locale-specific map_features? IMHO it's incorrect to display a region-specific tag like this to everyone in this way. designation= is not region-specific nor country-specific. It is a way of

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Designation tag on most map features

2012-02-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: Looking at the voting page (huge string of oppose votes) and the discussion on the Tagging list (3-4 March 2011), it looks like there are some pretty serious issues with it. s/pretty serious issues with it/idiots on the wiki/ From the P2 wiki docs: The UI of the

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Designation tag on most map features

2012-02-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On 2/19/12, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: I've just noticed that about a year ago, the designation tag was added to the common inputSet, meaning it appears on a wide variety of features: https://github.com/stevage/potlatch2/commit/e1970c90ae07d1d1bb98692a80d2131ae115ae5e There are

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Designation tag on most map features

2012-02-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: Ok, so I can try and understand you, can you define this wikifiddling you're so opposed to? I find your attitude utterly baffling. Life is mercifully too short to rehash the same old argument that's been had for the past five years of OSM all over again, but suffice it to

[Potlatch-dev] Designation tag on most map features

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Bennett
I've just noticed that about a year ago, the designation tag was added to the common inputSet, meaning it appears on a wide variety of features: https://github.com/stevage/potlatch2/commit/e1970c90ae07d1d1bb98692a80d2131ae115ae5e There are two issues with this: 1) The designation=* tag is