2014-12-18 21:41 GMT+01:00 Andy Street a...@street.me.uk:
They try to push that tag everywhere even when the tag without the
prefix is used 10x more.
This is the ad populum fallacy. Any attempt to improve a tagging scheme
will always start out being numerically weaker regardless of the
There are also strange suggestions like contact:webcam (how would you
contact someone via his public webcam?) and some documented keys are not
even used 5 times (one has no occurence at all). These are at best
proposals but shouldn't be in a Key:-Definition page.
And with contact:facebook,
On 18/12/2014 21:27, Andreas Goss wrote:
Well, it's kinda what contact does.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:contact
I can't believe this has reared its ugly head again. How little/much
it's used is really irrelevant. It's usefulness is what counts
prefixing a tag adds no value.
On 12/19/2014 3:47 PM, Dave F. wrote:
From memory the original claim was all 'contacts' could be filtered out
in one go, but it was pointed out that post filtering would still need
to be performed, and I'm no programming expert, but I was led to believe
parsing a string like 'contact:email' is
In one go, there's this: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=contact
I still don't see when that is that usefull. I mean yeah it's nice to
see which tags people use, but that could just be documented in the
Wiki. When editing POIs then when a POI has contact information that
usually
Thought I'd post this here too, because it's a bit more than just tagging.
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Honestly the people supporting this contact: tag are annoying me more
and more.
They try to push that tag everywhere even when the tag without the
prefix is used 10x more. The try to make the Wiki page
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:59:00 +0100
Andreas Goss andi...@t-online.de wrote:
Honestly the people supporting this contact: tag are annoying me more
and more.
FWIW I don't usually map contact related tags except for website which
I use without the prefix (out of habit rather than merit).
They
This is the ad populum fallacy. Any attempt to improve a tagging scheme
will always start out being numerically weaker regardless of the merit
of the proposal. To further confuse things there are people like myself
who will sometimes tag *both* schemes because although we see the need
for change
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:27:50 +0100
Andreas Goss andi...@t-online.de wrote:
We just need some rules when it comes to the wiki. We can't have
anybody putting his tagging ideas there.
Of course they can, otherwise the wiki ceases to be a description of the
tags used in the database and starts
Of course they can, otherwise the wiki ceases to be a description of the
tags used in the database and starts becoming the aspirations of a
clique of wiki-fiddlers.
So if i think Tag:amenity=place_of_worship should be leisure=* then I
should just it like that and put leisure=place_of_worship
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