On 07/22/2017 04:22 PM, Adam Snape wrote: > 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
Rarely used tags also take up valuable space in apps such as Vespucci. > > On 22 July 2017 at 14:24, Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com > <mailto: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 <mailto:skqu...@rushpost.com>> > http://www.rantroulette.com > http://www.skqrecordquest.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
