On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:30 PM, John Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: > OSM needs to provide for objects that fall under more than one category, > whether it is done by allowing multiple tags with the same key, using > semicolon-delimited values, or some other means. One often-quoted expression > is that "OSM needs to show the ground truth", and it is frequently the > ground truth that objects fit into more than one category.
Yeah. It's ridiculous. I was surveying a week ago and there was a shop that sells coffee AND tea. So what then? There's shop=coffee, and shop=tea. Whoever invented these tags wasn't a far-sighted person. Or a shop that sells both doors and windows (maybe even floors - there were a few of them). The problem with current tagging system lies in its **unsustainability**. It relies on people inventing new tags ad-hoc if a POI doesn't fit. And then? Most likely it won't be recognized by software in foreseeable future ie. unlike it gains traction. Do you see the nonsense of this? Michał _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
