On 02/05/12 16:38, Chris Hill wrote:
On 02/05/12 16:29, Andrew Chadwick wrote:
designation=* has been evolving recently, and has added some open land
classifications:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation#UK_Protected_Areas
With the proliferation of these designation codes, would it make sense
to begin coming up with country- or jurisdiction-coded prefixes for
them, similar to the way we denote "national" speed limits?
Not really, if the tag is in the UK (or, say, England if that makes a
difference) it is understandable that it is not anywhere else in the
world. It is a location-oriented database after all. The UK prefix on
speed limit tags is bonkers.
+1 for prefixes to designate a country on features which are already
geographically located in a country being bonkers.
I'm not clear what problem these prefixes are supposed to solve, but if
the problem is something like "how to identify tag usages within a
specific country", build a tool that knows how to search a specific
country, rather than placing the burden on mappers.
Jonathan.
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