> What do you think? Should the next version of iD be deployed on > www.openstreetmap.org? Absolutely. My understanding is this feature will greatly improve data quality in OSM. I think it's fair to validate squareness of existing buildings. Appreciate the great work of the iD team. Also commend your attention to tagging issues Michael. There's certainly a broader issue with how tags are managed in OSM. In short it's a mess all around and is in need of a rethink. I don't think this minor issue is a "hill to die on" however. -Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
On Thursday, May 9, 2019, 4:18:20 PM EDT, Michael Reichert <osm...@michreichert.de> wrote: Hi, this could be seen as a tagging discussion but I think that it is a discussion on governance and power. That's why this email goes to the Talk mailing list. Quincy Morgan, one of the maintainers of iD, invented a new tag called nosquare=yes today which should be added to buildings which are not square and should not be flagged by iD's validator. I (and later Paul Norman) pointed out issues with the tag. I asked Quincy to discuss the addition with the wider community beforehand. https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6332 Here are the issues I pointed out in the bugtracker. At the beginning he planned to use square=no which he later changed to nosquare=yes but this change does not make things better: > Although noname=yes is common, it is not that common that it can serve as an > argument in favour of introducing unsquare=yes. In difference to noexit=yes, > unsquare=yes and noname=yes only serve as a workaround for quality assurance > tools. noexit=yes also conveys information for map users: There road ends > here. > > Some people prefer to tag as complete as possible and add oneway=no, > cycleway=no, lit=no etc. to any way. However, such a practice is not base on > a broad consensus and if you dig deep enough in the history of user blocks in > OSM, you might find blocks set due to an excessive use of negative binary > tags. > > I think that iD does not need this tag and should only validate buildings if > they have been added or modified in the current session. If doing so, they > will be reported once which does not bother that much. > > Adding such a tag is not a simple change as it might seem to be and I ask you > to discuss it with the broader community on the Tagging mailing list. What do you think? Should the next version of iD be deployed on www.openstreetmap.org? Best regards Michael -- Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. (Mailinglisten ausgenommen) I prefer GPG encryption of emails. (does not apply on mailing lists) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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