building tool (w) deletes POIs and takes tags

[dieterdreist]

The building tool (w) started recently to delete POIs (if you draw a new building above it) and incorporates the tags into the building polygon. This is a nice idea and an interesting advanced feature, but it is not at all suited to be the default behaviour (should be with a modifier). Please don't delete points automatically. In my case there was a long building along the street for several housenumbers (with lots of stores in), but currently only one shop (a restaurant) was mapped, so the result was plain wrong.

[openstreetmap.org-user-d1g]

Replying to simon04:

Yes, this should be optional. I don't think Upliner has time for JOSM/OSM, but if he makes it optional it would be better.

But I don't think this is "major" because everyone was to told to draw "areas" in empty space:

Help/Action/DrawBuilding

And not to draw buildings over "shops" and other "buildings"...

building_tools was used by many users, if users are able to use without damage (I haven't seen reports about "building_tools centric" vandalism).

It is not so mandatory as it seemed at first, what do you think?

PS. You can create much more havoc using "delete" function, right? That's not a reason to remove it or to block inclusion of "building_tools" in core.

But I support that JOSM tools SHOULD BE history preserving (very very please, not mandatory).

Similarly Help/Action/ImproveWayAccuracy: "Please try to use as much existing nodes as you can, because thus you keep their history" - it is not worth our time to implement it in code, we will likely make mistakes in code and have to review them later for little automation functionality.

[oleksii.zagorskyi@…]

As I see, plugin's setting "Use address nodes under buildings" allows to switch the behavior.

[anonymous]

let me mark it as fixed