On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 23 Apr 2008, at 16:07, Andy Allan wrote: > > > I can say from my experience of teaching IT concepts to very smart > > people (i.e. until recently I was an IT support manager at a large > > uni) that this namespacing stuff is a step too far for most people. My > > experience introducing other people to OSM would back that up. > > > > We know that simple tagging makes sense to many people. We know that > > namespacing makes sense to everyone in this discussion, and that many > > people who understand it *still* disagree with its blanket use in OSM. > > The issue is complexity? > > So what's wrong with using name spacing and just don't tell people... > as far as they know its tagging with a : in. The folks that care > about such things will know and everyone else is blissfully unaware. > Sure your tags get a little longer, but the two main editors can auto- > complete such things > > I doubt it makes much difference to average Jo Mapper if you suggest > he tags stuff as > > foo=bar > bar=value > > or > > foo:bar=value > > Just my 2p... > Namespaces are evil. Use hyphenspaces instead ;) foo:bar=value is badness foo-bar=value is goodness 80n > -- > Chris Jones, SUCS Admin > http://sucs.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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