Providing a more consistent while still backwards compatible tagging scheme for a feature is not the end of freedom. It just helps to answer the all-time question: how is this done? with an answer that makes more sense. Taggers will adopt it because it makes sense.
Op do 7 jun. 2018 12:33 schreef Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de>: > On Thursday 07 June 2018, Selfish Seahorse wrote: > > > There are tons of established tags in OSM where the key makes no > > > sense at all. Don't get me started on 'waterway' for example. But > > > that is how OSM works. Get over it, accept that people have made > > > bad choices of keys when choosing tags and concentrate on > > > encouraging and helping people to choose suitable keys when newly > > > creating tags (in a productive way of course, not just by rejecting > > > any idea as bad). > > > > And what's wrong with getting rid of these bad choices? > > Nothing except it would mean the end of free form tagging and it would > require creating some framework of tagging authorities in OSM who > decide on what is good and bad or in short: The end of OSM as an > egalitarian global community. > > Once more my suggestion to Martin and others who repeat the same matra > we have heard for years over and over again: Accept that there are > thousands of mappers who do not care about key hygiene like you do or > have the sense of order you have. That is a simple fact of life in a > diverse global community like OSM. > > For me this always sounds a bit like someone who wants to 'fix the > English language' by eliminating irregular verbs and other exceptions > so you can say "I goed to the pub yesterday and haved a beer". Yes, in > principle you can do that and you can argue this might make it easier > for people to learn the language but it just would not be English any > more. > > Your brave new world with an intelligent design of orthogonal keys > would - apart from being an illusion (Kurt Gödel is greeting) - just > not be OSM any more. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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