Pieren wrote: >> We've long since passed the point where "amenity" is an accurate >> description for the value that comes after it. In the OpenStreetMap >> database "amenity" is best pronounced as "a thingy" :) > > Is that a reason to not improve things (or try to )?
Is introducing somewhat arbitrary categories really an improvement? It's just another thing I need to memorize. What I want to enter is actually "lawyer" "museum" "brothel" and so on. These aren't two "atoms" of data, just one. Unfortunately, there is the technical requirement to provide two strings - key and value. A "thingy" key (could be "type" or "poi" or whatever just as well as "amenity") is a method to work around this. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
