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Store aerial imagery preference by string, not number #684

Closed openstreetmap-trac closed 3 years ago

openstreetmap-trac commented 3 years ago

Reporter: richard[at]systemeD.net [Submitted to the original trac issue database at 8.53am, Wednesday, 13th February 2008]

preferences.data.baselayer should be "Yahoo", "OAM", "Mapnik" etc. etc., not 1/2/3/4

openstreetmap-trac commented 3 years ago

Author: Vid the Kid [Added to the original trac issue at 9.27am, Saturday, 25th July 2009]

I think the idea here was that, when new items are added to the list of available backgrounds, users' stored preferences could be made wrong. What's invalid about that?

Then again, I'm not entirely certain what "invalid" means on trac.