<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 17, 2014, at 9:48 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" class="">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">there will be more people with even more ideas and classification needs. Therefor the foo=bar, bar=x way of subtyping, which implies there is only one kind of subtyping, should generally be deprecated in favor of more verbose subtyping-keys like foo=bar, bar:property=x</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Martin - Do you have any suggestion for cleaning up the civic=* subkey I was suggesting for building=civic in this way? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I assume we need a big generic key, and then a many subcategories that fall under that key. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Building=civic</div><div class="">+</div><div class="">civic:legislation=city council ?</div><div class="">civic:administration=motor_vehicles ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That kind of thing? It would allow for a lot more description with much fewer tags. I was thinking of letting the amenity on the building dictate if it is a city_hall or a DMV, but this seems to be a good chance to follow the key:subkey=subkey_value structure. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I know it isn’t Building:civic=city_council, Which seems to be what you are advocating (I think), but we have to work within the existing structure for building=X & X=* still, right? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div></body></html>