Though, I have to admit that introducing new categories nor moving tags
from one to another is not easy and often bricks, like osm-carto will
not support it for quite some time, are through between your legs.
Still in favour of introducing some more categories.
cu fly
Am 24.02.2015 um 20:02
Matter in a nutshell: Certainly the way we use these super tags has a
lot of historical baggage but I don't think it is a stupid idea per se,
*especially* if your goal is (like you're claiming yours to be) making
tags easy for mappers.
I apologize for writing like a troll. I should have been
In a previous thread on this mailing list, someone proposed
amenity=reception_desk. Someone else observed that the amenity key is where you
put a new tag when you don't know where else to put it. I think this is a
symptom of a bigger problem with tags on OSM.
Right now, tags serve two distinct
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Kurt Blunt k.bl...@inbox.com wrote:
When you want to tag the same point with multiple categories, those
categories must share the same tag and be separated by a semicolon e.g.
shop=convenience;alcohol. That is, unless the two categories are under two
The editing tools have a role here, with iD leading the way.
With iD one writes the thing, for example a bathroom.
The editor matches this to available tags and lets you choose.
It even hides the actual tag name (amenity=toilet most likely in this case).
Thus with a good set of aliases, the
I think the top level keys have tremendous value.
For example the current scheme allows rendering of generic tourist
attractions and shops,
even if the individual shop types are unknown (e.g. the singular dog collar
shop in OSM and probably the world).
Hi,
On 02/23/2015 02:43 AM, Kurt Blunt wrote:
Right now, tags serve two distinct purposes. There are attribute tags
like name=Wall Street, and there are category tags like
amenity=parking or aeroway=helipad.
This works for many things but not all; the border can be blurred. You
will not be
On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:55 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
The editing tools have a role here, with iD leading the way.
With iD one writes the thing, for example a bathroom.
The editor matches this to available tags and lets you choose.
It even hides the actual tag name
