On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 21:46, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote: > 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.
There's a technical requirement to enter key-value pairs *in the raw data* but nothing stops some editor implementing things so that you can do as you suggest in the UI. JOSM already has this via its presets and Potlatch 2 will have something like this as well. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
