Re: [Potlatch-dev] Suggestion for "lifecycle" tag - comments?

2011-02-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > I'm also a little aware (having optimised the CategorySelector stuff > yesterday) Btw - awesome. :) Steve ___ Potlatch-dev mailing list Potlatch-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreet

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Suggestion for "lifecycle" tag - comments?

2011-02-16 Thread Steve Bennett
> 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.

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Suggestion for "lifecycle" tag - comments?

2011-02-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Actually, what I forgot to say was... > Potlatch, 1 or 2, has always been a 90-10 editor. Make the > 90% of mapping easy, and the 10% possible. ...and with P2, we can now make it both a 90-10 editor and a 99-1 editor. That's why we have user-selectable stylesheets, and in particular the 'Enhanc

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Suggestion for "lifecycle" tag - comments?

2011-02-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: > 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. +1. (Are we a

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Suggestion for "lifecycle" tag - comments?

2011-02-16 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Andy Allan wrote: >> My first thought is to just have another couple of highway types ( a >> proposed highway and a highway under construction ) with a list of >> classifications in a choice input, and maybe

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Suggestion for "lifecycle" tag - comments?

2011-02-16 Thread NopMap
PS: We have the same use case with abandoned railroads. -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Potlatch-dev-Suggestion-for-lifecycle-tag-comments-tp6029585p6030993.html Sent from the Potlatch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Suggestion for "lifecycle" tag - comments?

2011-02-16 Thread NopMap
Steve Bennett-3 wrote: > > Anyway think the element names could be refined slightly. Are there > any other tags that work this way, apart from the lifecycle ones? Do > different tags have different lifecycles (I seem to recall that > railways have more states). Should I just hard-code it all? >

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Suggestion for "lifecycle" tag - comments?

2011-02-16 Thread NopMap
Hi! Steve Bennett-3 wrote: > > My feeling is that "proposed" is really not a type of highway, and > that eventually this tagging scheme will be replaced by something a > little less idiosyncratic: > > highway=tertiary > lifecycle=proposed > That is exactly the one thing we must avoid. Becau