On 2015-09-17 18:02, Kotya Karapetyan wrote : > Hi André, > > I don't know why your text was removed. > > > It would produce a message saying something like: > > "The coordinates you are trying to change are accurate to 25 cm. > > You probably shouldn't change this tag, certainly not with GPS data. > > Are you certain that you will not destroy valuable data and do you > want to continue?". > > And if he replies "no", his attempt is canceled. > > I like this approach. I wonder if it is technically feasible. Forget about my bad examples and the eagerness to pick them. Here is the original text. >> ... Despite a "don't touch" note explaining why not, a good soul >> passes, not reading note and makes a "correction". >> What is needed here is an "are you sure?" tag named such as >> [keyname:]warning="text" that the map editing softwate uses any time >> a mapper wants to change that keyname's value to display the message >> and ask for a confirmation (by the tag, at the time he tries to >> change it, not when he tries to upload a dozen of such changes). >> <text>="Reasons why you shouldn't change that tag. Do you really >> want to change it?" >> Replying "no" cancels the attempt. >> Or should it be [keyname:]note:warn="text" and spare another wiki page? >> keyname can be "geometry" as in source:geometry. >> Et voilà. An all-purpose simple guardrail, a small update to the >> wiki and passing the word to the editors. > > My point was that to make it generic may be more difficult than > creating a very specific tag/function for survey-based data. IMHO it may be simpler that some specific implementations and certainly when their numbers reaches 2. The answer will be given by JOSM et al. It doesn't address "mechanical" updates, but the persons doing them are supposed to know what they're doing, aren't they? > And I didn't understand the benefit for your other examples. But > otherwise I support it. Those examples forgotten, other voices are needed, the wiki update has almost been written. > > Cheers, > Kotya General tip: Kotya, do you know that you can have your kotya.li...@gmail.com account use filters to store messages in by-the-list folders and access those folders using IMAP with software like Thunderbird and do things like answering to ancient mail?
Cheers André.
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