Am Mittwoch 24 Juni 2009 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > Hi, > > greg...@arenius.com wrote: > > What do people think? > you are not the first to suggest something like that ;-) I also think that a change would be fine, but my approach was a little bit different. anyway, I'm using my scheme in my application and try to convert from the chaotic osm-style when importing the data.
> I think "why bother". Clearly what we have is chaotic, but any system > you can think of will become chaotic sooner or later with people > (ab)using it to their heart's content, so what's the big deal. > abuse, even unintended, will always be a problem diluting the meaning and usage of the tags. but this can be reduces to a minimum, if the whole thing would be well defined. but enough said, you know my point of view ;-) > If you're so intent on giving structure to the whole thing then you > should perhaps use the gpsdrive-inspired tagging scheme that some people > in Germany use. They do things like > > poi=shopping.machine.cigarette > poi=education.school.secondary > poi=religion.church.catholic > poi=shopping.rental.library > thanks for referencing this :-) > and so on. I'm sure it is documented somewhere but I'm not sure where. I > think it is a bit crazy but at least it can co-exist peacefully with > what we already have (an object can be tagged according to both schemes > at the same time). > a short overview can be found in the osm svn in /applications/share/map-icons/
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