Is there a way to have only those tags used in a specific activation loaded 
into iD and JOSM so none of the others show? Or something similar? 

Suzan 


> On Jul 14, 2015, at 2:38 PM, Andrew Patterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Whilst I fully accept the concept of open debate in an attempt to reach a 
> consensus, I do find the current discussion less than helpful, because of the 
> range of definitions being thrown out, and the added geographic dimension to 
> the definitions.  This is not helped by the variety in advise in the 
> instructions for various tasks - ranging from "if in doubt mark it as a path, 
> and this can be upgraded by someone on the ground" to much more specific 
> instructions in the Nepalese instructions, for example.  But the type of 
> terrain in which one might contemplate a 4 wheel drive in Africa is very 
> different to that regularly used in Nepal.
> 
> Surely if must be possible to come to a conclusion for a generic set of 
> definitions.  I rather support John Whelan's breakdown, where he suggests 
> that "if its to a small group of huts its probably a track, if
> its to narrow for a 4X4 and winds its a path, and if I can see two wheel​ 
> tracks then its a track unless its between two settlements of reasonable
> size then its unclassified​"​.
> 
> ​There was a huge correspondence in a similar vein during the early days of 
> the Nepal disaster, which I found to be a real disincentive to contributing 
> during the first couple of weeks, and I have only latterly started working on 
> task.  There has also been an impressive and important Post Mortem exercise 
> to improve things, and I would suggest that the size of the preset list is 
> one area in which some serious pruning could be done with consequent increase 
> in transparency to a new comer
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
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