On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:12 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 March 2010 07:35, Mike N. <[email protected]> wrote: >> How will boundary relations help? They must still refer to a closed way >> in order to define the administrative boundary. > > Maybe he meant re-use the road as part of a relation, instead of > having 2 ways that share the same path... > > Due to the poor handling of relations this is a bad idea imho, even if > the boundary runs down the middle of the road people screw things up, > I've been pushing for admin boundaries to be hidden by default in > browsers to reduce problems, especially with newbies that don't get > some of the more advanced concepts... > > https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/4236 >
It would certainly be nice if admin boundaries could be protected from accidental changes. One way to implement is for the editor to add a read-only bit to each object that gets loaded. Various types of objects should then be read-only by default, depending on their tags. I could see this being useful for boundary=, natural=, landuse=, etc. These objects (including child objects like nodes) would be read-only in the editor. The user should be allowed to mark these objects read-write when necessary, in case they actually do need to be edited. -- Jeff Spirko [email protected] [email protected] WD3V |=> The study of non-linear physics is like the study of non-elephant biology. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
