<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Dave Swarthout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daveswarthout@gmail.com" target="_blank">daveswarthout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Gerd Petermann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpetermann_muenchen@hotmail.com" target="_blank">gpetermann_muenchen@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow:hidden">Well, of course diversity in tagging is a problem. For each data consumer<br>
and<br>
for each new mapper who tries to find out how to map something so that their<br>
preferred OSM-data-consuming-program is understanding the data.<br>
The problem exists and causes lots of work.</div></blockquote></span></blockquote></div><br>My last message got partly lost:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I agree. I served as a librarian for a while in a small city library. I rebelled against strict adherence to the cataloging schemes all American libraries use, either the Library of Congress Subject Headings or the older Dewey Decimal System. But the reasons for this are to enhance the ability to search and find books by subject. If anyone can use any subject they like, it would be chaos. OSM is tending to go that way.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Now that I am writing my own style rules it vexes me that I have to write complex rules in order to take into account all the various tags folks have come up with to describe objects in the manner they like. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dave Swarthout<br>Homer, Alaska<br>Chiang Mai, Thailand<br>Travel Blog at <a href="http://dswarthout.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://dswarthout.blogspot.com</a></div></div>
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