On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 9:40 PM Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 25/10/18 02:52, Paul Allen wrote: > > An alternative ... just use the diplomatic key alone. >
I could live with that. I think. I have a vague feeling of unease about it, for some reason I can't put my finger on. Maybe because it's an adjective and I think of keys as being nouns. Problem is, diplomat=embassy would be silly. I'm not happy with service:*=* acting as distinctions as service is used elsewhere for other things. It complicates editors as they have to do selective matching to figure out which particular service:* tags to offer up with a particular main tag. Humm the 'sells' tag has the same problem. > That doesn't mean we should compound the error. Each time something like sells is used the editor has to have special-case code to handle it properly. Or it just offers every possible sells=* even when most are inappropriate in that context, which leads to errors and confusion. Free form entry is a reasonable way around this .. at least until some use > has been made of it to see what is 'frequent' in use. > AKA "I wish we'd thought this through properly back in the beginning instead of ending up with a mix of incompatible tagging methods because people invent random stuff." That's how we ended up with amenity=embassy... -- Paul _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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