On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Friedrich Volkmann <b...@volki.at> wrote:
> On 10.05.2015 10:38, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > I prefer designation=* since it it already a widely used tag that fits > the > > intended purpose of the proposed admin_title=* tag. The question on > whether > > the value should be human-readable or machine-readable can be solved by > > using correspondence tables to link the two. Barring such a table, I > don't > > see a catastrophic problem in automatically converting "civil_parish" to > > "Civil Parish" and vice versa, to use the example in the talk page. > > designation=* is widely used (193 293 times), but look at the values in > taginfo. The only relevant value is civil_parish (3346 times). All other > values are just a mess. > Then there should be an effort to standardize the possible values of designation=* when applied to administrative entities. I think your current proposal is a good time to discuss that. > The automatic replacement of underscores and lowercase initials with blanks > and uppercase initials would be easy, but no application developer will > implement it, and the uppercase initials may be wrong in some cases. > Do you have any proof that application developers will not implement it, other than just personal conjecture? And as I said before, such automatic replacement, if wrong, is not a catastrophic problem. > It would also be easy to put a conversion table in the wiki, similar to the > tables we already have for implicit maxspeed and access values by highway > type and country. But again, application developers will ignore those > tables. > Again, why are you so sure that developers will ignore such tables? If a tag such as designation=* when applied to administrative entities were to be widely and consistently applied, and the documentation on the wiki is clear, then developers will find value in supporting such tables.
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