Re: [Tagging] Source tag - deprecated for use on objects?

2013-01-06 Thread Ilari Kajaste
t for the discussion. On 2 January 2013 14:50, wrote: > I have been told ( on the talk-US email list ) that use of {{key|source}} on > objects has been deprecated for years and that such information is only of > historical interest and its use should be restricted to changesets. --

[Tagging] The OSM philosophy (was: Carriageway divider)

2012-08-26 Thread Ilari Kajaste
intact, in good quality for any emergent uses we're not even thinking about yet. I think it's a very, very good approach. Uses come and go, but the data is what matters, in the end. It's the data itself, the modelling of reality, we need to focus on. -- - Ilari Kajaste - E

Re: [Tagging] drinkable vs. drinking_water

2012-07-13 Thread Ilari Kajaste
On 13 July 2012 20:30, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2012/7/13 Ilari Kajaste : >> This isn't all that surprising. "drinkable" is an attribute, >> "drinking_water" is a service. Different types of things are used in >> different tagging cont

Re: [Tagging] drinkable vs. drinking_water

2012-07-13 Thread Ilari Kajaste
of deciding the better term (e.g. "drinkable" vs. "potable"). I'm not saying it's not a good idea to suggest the use of only one tag instead of two that are used to convey the same result ("ok there's probably water for me there"), Bu

Re: [Tagging] drinkable vs. drinking_water

2012-07-13 Thread Ilari Kajaste
nd at least internationally, it seems "drinkable" is considered more natural. And since it's also a synonym in any normal use (so no specificity is lost), that's the word that should be used for the tag. -- - Ilari Kajaste - E-Mail: ilari.kaja...@iki.fi WWW: http://iki.fi/ilari.kajaste ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Reviving the conditions debate

2012-06-15 Thread Ilari Kajaste
even the right place for such detailed opening hours, but that's a whole other discussion. --     - Ilari Kajaste - E-Mail: ilari.kaja...@iki.fi WWW: http://iki.fi/ilari.kajaste ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Reviving the conditions debate

2012-06-15 Thread Ilari Kajaste
01) = closed Though the given example is unusually complex, so it's not a good example of a common case. And as a sidenote I'm not sure OSM database is even the right place for such detailed opening hours, but that's a whole other discussion.

Re: [Tagging] Reviving the conditions debate

2012-06-14 Thread Ilari Kajaste
nmapper-intuitive computer-understandable then I would suggest these tags or values could always be prefixed with something (eg. "special:", "code:", "computer:", "extended:"). That way editors could know to only display them via a special editor, instead of p