True but it's to do with data quality and avoiding the need to validate. Thank you for the comment.
Cheerio John On 24 Dec 2017 1:37 pm, "Bryan Housel" <[email protected]> wrote: > What you are describing has nothing to do with validation. This could be > done now without any new development just by running a copy of iD with > different presets. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 24, 2017, at 12:08 PM, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > > But what I suspect could be done is when iD in invoked from a HOT project > it could restrict the options on things like highways to those in the wiki > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa > which would save a lot of living_streets etc. being added in parts of > Africa where there aren't any. Also reduce the numbers of highway=footway > rather than path. > > We might even get a few more building=yes tags rather than the range we > get at the moment. > > Thanks John > > On 24 December 2017 at 10:45, Bryan Housel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Have you looked at https://github.com/osmlab/osmlint ? >> Of all the current validation efforts, that seems like the most >> promising. >> >> I’d definitely echo what other people are saying about avoiding the osm >> wiki if possible. >> >> It works on vector tiles though, so to stuff it into an editor like iD, >> we would need to write some kind of pipeline that does: >> “current view of stuff in editor” -> "vector tile" -> "osmlint engine" -> >> “results (geojson)” -> “back to the editor for user to see" >> >> It might work? >> >> Also… This problem of “validating OSM” is really unbounded. You should >> know that before you start working on it! I’m not one to tell people not >> to work on something but.. It’s really hard! Tags are just made up all the >> time by people. >> >> Can a `highway=residential` connect to a `power=line`? - no! >> Can a `highway=service` connect to a `power=substation` - uhh, I guess! >> Can a `highway=??` connect to a `power=thing_i_just_made_up`? - haha! >> >> Bryan >> >> >> >> >> On Dec 24, 2017, at 4:47 AM, François Lacombe <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Here is an idea I got regarding tagging validation in editors (iD, JOSM, >> others). >> Subsequently to wiki proposal voting and cleanups, it's currently >> necessarily to open issues in each editor repository to ask for new tagging >> validation rules. >> >> It can sometimes be time consuming to develop those new rules and such a >> work is done independently by each project maintainer. While each project >> have its own specific components, background logic is the same. >> >> Would a new lib called like osmtagvalidator or so in charge of doing >> conform validation to wiki be useful? >> It may be shared by any project involved in osm editing and preserve its >> resources for other valuable developments. >> >> For me, validation doesn't prevent users to use tags they want, but only >> warn them about possible mistakes. >> >> How would devs and users feel about this? >> >> All the best >> >> François >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> >
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