My fear is that some overzealous mappers will start adding those tags to all objects in their neighborhood, just to "protect' their area and scare away newbies.
Since we suppose that all data is mean to be correct and everybody makes edits to improve the map, I do not see a good reason for such a tag. regards m On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 10:43 PM, moltonel <molto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 26 September 2015 19:05:09 GMT+01:00, "André Pirard" < > a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >It is > ><keyname>:warning=<text> > >which acts only when that key is changed. > >geometry:warning=<text> to protect the coordinates of the element > >name:warning=<text> to protect its name. > >Those tags do not warn against changing other tags. > > May I suggest 'edit_warning', or something else that explicit (because a > 'warning' key could be used for so many purposes) ? And use proper > namespace ordering, ie edit_warning:name=blah rather than > name:edit_warning=blah (because many keys, like name or phone, are also > namespaces that can be followed by arbitrary sufixes). > > That said, you should open bugs on the various editors as soon as possible > to discuss with them what they think of such a feature. Unless this tag > gets editor support, it doesn't bring anything that the already popular > 'note' tag doesn't give. Sadly, inexperienced mapers are the ones most > likely to miss a plain 'note' tag, but they are also most likely using iD, > whose developers are pretty warning-averse... > -- > Vincent Dp > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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