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At 2012-05-17 16:30, Paul Johnson wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>On May 17, 2012 3:22 PM,
"Nathan Edgars II"
<<a href="mailto:neroute2@gmail.com">neroute2@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> I'd like to propose a page that basically says that just because a
tag is named X, that does not mean that something should be tagged as
such only if it meets the real-world definition of X. <br><br>
This would only confuse things worse than they already are. This is
a bad idea outright. </blockquote><br>
The idea, taken in a vacuum without knowledge of personalities, seems
correct. There are many more examples, like highway=* things that are not
highways. I don't think we need a page for it, but it should be somewhere
in beginners documentation that the key and any non-name values may not
be exact matches (or maybe even "wrong") in your local usage
and language.<br><br>
Editors like JOSM already have different, more correct names in the
presets menu for some of the tags, and the ability is there (as someone
from Indonesia pointed out) to create your own presets (or have them
created for you) and name them whatever you want. Other editors have
limited and/or hierarchical tagging with icons that accomplish the same
thing.<br>
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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM@Earthlink.net><br>
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