On 21 February 2010 23:31, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > True, but things can't be both obviously human readable and > compact/unambiguous. The real goal in tags isn't "human readable" but > "nerd readable", and I think that once someone learns that Su[1] means > "first sunday", they won't have trouble.
Lets face it, the editors will eventually hide most of the nerd tags and convert to multiline dialog boxes the more people use something, so I'd agree with this as well, also numbers are much easier for people in non-english speaking background, than using english postfixed text, st/nd/rd etc... _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging