On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, David Earl wrote: > FWIW, I agree largely with the specific points on your wiki page, but I don't > think it will happen because of the effort involved.
The wiki page wasn't really supposed to be a "this is how it needs to be" solution - the hope was to get people talking about how stuff can be improved without immediately dismissing anything that wasn't on the path of least resistance. I can understand people being indifferent, but to be met with sarcastic replies and put-downs instead of intelligent conversation was pretty offputting. Personally, I don't think the current tagging scheme is really maintainable in the long run and that eventually there will need to be a revolution, rather than evolution, in the way the data is represented, and I worry about the future of project if people with new ideas are turned away like this. > There is also a camp which actively > wants a node to be able to have more than one "type" in your terminology: we > have (non-accidental) examples of place=town and building=town_hall for > example, and (worse) place=town and amenity=post_box on the same node. I > think that's ludicrous myself, and I'm sure you do too, but there are those > who don't see it that way. I agree that this sounds pretty crazy (although I'm rather of the opinion that using a node instead of an area to identify a town for anything other than a temporary measure is wrong). There are a lot of cases where tagging objects as multiple things makes sense though - one example was given on the wiki page with roads that become pistes in the winter, but there are other such examples. There may even be merit in having a single node tagged as both a posting box and a bus stop if it happens to be a pole with both a posting box and a bus stop mounted on it. - Steve xmpp:st...@nexusuk.org sip:st...@nexusuk.org http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb