On 17 August 2010 08:53, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > it doesn't change the good point Ulf made: a potential data consumer > would have to know all school types for a pleasant results. Currently
That's actually a reason to sub-tag, so they can show a generic icon instead of needing to constantly update their rendering style sheet for a new amenity added every other day. > most schools are tagged with amenity=school and maybe a name. This is > sufficient for many maps. If we now start to put all kind of special > interest schools, sports facilities and other in this category, it > will get useless. Renderers would have to know all local types of > general schools that will get entered in the subtag school (because it > will not remain general and because it is a good idea to tag > school=fr:lycee, de:Gymnasium, it:liceo, highschool, etc.). Or they > will only evaluate one tag (amenity=school) because they do this for > years, and they will start to display rubbish. You seem to be trying to convince me that subtagging is a good idea and others are already doing it anyway. > I'm generally in favour of subtagging, where it is adequat. I just > don't see the benefit here and worse, I feel it would harm. In the > case of schools I think there are already enough different types of > general-education schools to differentiate. If you make a map of > schools you will in most cases don't want the boxing schools in. You haven't really shown a bad harm, schools will continue to render as is, these other types of schools are also for learning, so where is the problem? > Another hint might be to see how others handle this. If you look at wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_by_country > there is not the faintest hint to other than general education > schools. No word about driving schools or dancing schools. They are > very different. Really. Btw: the OSM Wiki refers to Wikipedia's > definition of school. Wikipedia is a good starting point for research, but no one usually uses them as a primary source. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
