<div dir="auto">John,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This seems so fundamental to me, I'm guessing that this has already been discussed and for some reason, not implemented.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Chris</div><div dir="auto">chris_debian</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 17 Oct 2022, 03:37 john whelan, <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I strongly suspect assets are tagged differently depending when they were mapped and even who mapped them. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Many years ago locally one mapper prefered to use traffic_lights rather than traffic_signals on the grounds that he mapped them and to him they were traffic lights. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Whilst we try to defer to local mappers as we mature and software tries to make sense of our tags is it time to formalise at least some tagging standards?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This would enable software to be used and interpret the map in different parts of the world in the same way.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Even if we could say to end users something like traffic_signals is our "Standard" way to tag I think this would be an improvement or have I missed something and there are standards but the world ignores them.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thoughts please</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks John</div></div>
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