On 07-06-18 00:51, Warin wrote: > On 07/06/18 00:57, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> >> >> 2018-06-06 16:39 GMT+02:00 Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de >> <mailto:o...@imagico.de>>: >> There probably is a strong majority among OSM mappers that >> (rightfully) >> think key semantics are irrelevant for the actual meaning of tags. >> >> What a tag in OSM means depends on what it is actually used for, not >> what someone says the key used requires it to mean. > > The meanings of the key and value should make logical sense .. other > wise it is a convoluted thing that is being thrust on all mappers and > data consumers. > The meaning should not migrate over time by the misuse of the tag by a > number of mappers.
Not only that, but it hampers mappers in learning how to correctly use them. If landuse consistently means "the primary use of the land", and you learn about landuse=residential and landuse=railway through the wiki, then a pattern emerges and you know what is going on when you encounter landuse=commercial and landuse=retail. But then you get to the local park and see that all large areas with trees are tagged with landuse=forest (despite there not being an actual forest), which you learn is how we tag an area covered in trees, and now the system apparently has a bunch of exceptions you have to keep in mind. At some point we end up with a database that requires our own private arcana to understand — I fear that would create a gap between occasional new mappers contributing through ID, and experienced mappers who can map major infrastructural projects without breaking a single bus route, but nothing in between. Semantics matter a lot in a database that consists of tagged geographical features. Kind regards, Jeroen Hoek _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
