Don't want to comment on the subject itself but since you open a lot of tagging discussions w.r.t. presets in iD i am wondering if there is a documented policy on presets in iD and if not if it might be time to think about having one.
The reason i am asking is that by bringing up a tagging issue and at the same time directly connecting it to presets in a popular editor you have a significant risk of distorting the usual process in which tagging rules are established in OSM. By indicating that a consensus in the discussion here will manifest in iD presets independent of other factors that might not even have come up in the discussion here but which tend to rightfully affect the success of a tagging idea in the normal process where mappers over time "vote with their feet" so to speak you could end up with a "the tail wagging the dog" situation (i.e. the OSM establishment here telling the global mapper community top down how to map things). In OSM-Carto it has been long time practice that rendering decisions should support mappers in consistent use of tags but should not attempt to actively steer mappers to change mapping habits - even in cases where that would be extremely convenient for rendering. And how to ensure that has been a frequent subject and occasionally also a point of conflict in style development discussions in the past. What you sketch in https://github.com/osmlab/osm-tagging/issues/1 seems to be quite the opposite of that approach. Now i know of course an editor and its presets is not the same as a map style but still it seems important to have some objective goals and criteria for decisions regarding presets, especially if you present addition, change or removal of presets as pre-planned steps in a process to change tagging. Please don't interpret this as a critique of your attempts to improve tagging in OSM (which are admirable). My comment is only about actively connecting this to editor preset decisions. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
