Hi, > OK, so several thousand people are using amenity=foo. Are they all using > it for the same thing? How can you tell?
true. There's landuse=farm on the Map Features page. Some used it for farm land, some for farm yards (thus farmyard had been introduced, which only solves half of the issue BTW). It similar to people using highway=footway for both paved and designated footways and just paths in the woods or the mountains. What I was meaning was the other way around: IMO there's nothing wrong with having more than one tagging scheme for one and the same thing. If there was highway=footway, highway=foot_way and highway=way.foot in the database, what's the (really huge) disadvantage? [...] > And the lives of the renderer authors are made miserable if there are > four different ways to tag the same feature, all of which are used in > different areas of the map. I agree some additional code needs to be written to support multiple tagging schemes. But IMO it's not an issue (except of conceptual or language issues of the consumer). A shop=bakery in Great Britain surely will differ from a shop=boulangerie in France. But I could surely display them both on a map with the same icon. Cheers, ce _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk