Hi I wasn't arguing in favour of the change, merely addressing John Willis' concern. I suppose the intention might be to reduce the likelihood of erroneous descriptive name tags such as name=tree. New mappers sometimes often fail to realise that name boxes in the editors often should be left blank. I suspect that JOSM users are much less likely to make this mistake. Then again, I suspect they are also much less likely to be deterred from leaving a name because there is no preset name box.
Regards, Adam On 22 July 2017 at 14:24, Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> wrote: > On 07/22/2017 08:18 AM, Craig Wallace wrote: > > On 2017-07-22 13:50, Adam Snape wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Removing the name key from the JOSM preset wouldn't stop somebody > >> adding a name tag in the few cases where a tree really was named. Nor > >> would it remove name tags from existing trees. > > > > But what's wrong with having the name as an optional tag on the preset? > > if it is not relevant for that particular tree, just leave it blank. > > Yes it is the minority of trees, but I think there are quite a few trees > > that have some sort of name. And it is often of historic interest, so > > worth recording it. > > If I remember right, we have this field on highway=traffic_signals even > though only one country (Japan) uses it. > > -- > Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> > http://www.rantroulette.com > http://www.skqrecordquest.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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