Re: [OSM-talk] Dealing with internet_access=wifi

2016-01-07 Thread Andy Townsend 

On 06/01/2016 14:18, Jakob Mühldorfer wrote:

Hello,

according to taginfo "internet_access=wifi" is used almost 80 times 
globally.
Would you agree it is safe to automatically change all of these to 
"internet_access=wlan"?


As I understand it, "wifi" means "one of the 802.11 variants" whereas 
"wlan" means "any sort of or wireless local area network". However, I 
can't think of a single example in the last decade of something other 
than 802.11 used for _local_ wireless networking, so I'd say they were 
pretty much synonymous, and so no information would be lost.


Can anyone else think of an exception?

Cheers,

Andy


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[OSM-talk] Dealing with internet_access=wifi

2016-01-06 Thread Jakob Mühldorfer 

Hello,

according to taginfo "internet_access=wifi" is used almost 80 times 
globally.
Would you agree it is safe to automatically change all of these to 
"internet_access=wlan"?
According to Wiki this is the correct tag, and it is almost impossible 
someone meant anything else with the current tag, so an automatic edit 
should not do any harm.


Cheers
Jakob

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