Re: [Tagging] proposing a page on the wiki: tag names do not always correspond to their definitions

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Krämer
Hi, Am 18.05.2012 07:30, schrieb Alan Mintz: The idea, taken in a vacuum without knowledge of personalities, seems correct. There are many more examples, like highway=* things that are not highways. I don't think we need a page for it, but it should be somewhere in beginners documentation that

Re: [Tagging] proposing a page on the wiki: tag names do not always correspond to their definitions

2012-05-18 Thread Tobias Johansson
http://vimeo.com/14776099 A video from SOTM 2010 regarding this (sort of). And I think he makes a lot of good points. But maybe OSM don't need/isn't ready for something like this yet. I think that we need to get the licens stuff done first and then have a little bit of a cool down period before

[Tagging] proposing a page on the wiki: tag names do not always correspond to their definitions

2012-05-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I'd like to propose a page that basically says that just because a tag is named X, that does not mean that something should be tagged as such only if it meets the real-world definition of X. The following examples can be included: *Many cities are tagged with place=town *Bikes and pedestrians

Re: [Tagging] proposing a page on the wiki: tag names do not always correspond to their definitions

2012-05-17 Thread aighes
Hi, sounds good! An example for Germany: highway=path, which doesn't only means a trail Henning Am 18.05.2012 00:21, schrieb Nathan Edgars II: I'd like to propose a page that basically says that just because a tag is named X, that does not mean that something should be tagged as such only if

Re: [Tagging] proposing a page on the wiki: tag names do not always correspond to their definitions

2012-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On May 17, 2012 3:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose a page that basically says that just because a tag is named X, that does not mean that something should be tagged as such only if it meets the real-world definition of X. This would only confuse things worse

Re: [Tagging] proposing a page on the wiki: tag names do not always correspond to their definitions

2012-05-17 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-17 16:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On May 17, 2012 3:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose a page that basically says that just because a tag is named X, that does not mean that something should be tagged as such only if it meets the real-world definition of