<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Am So., 11. Nov. 2018 um 12:17 Uhr schrieb Sergio Manzi <<a href="mailto:smz@smz.it">smz@smz.it</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hello everybody,</p>
<p>I'm the one who, in the Italian mailing list, first brought out
the issue about how to tag estimated heights (<i>in our context it
was about trees height</i>).<br>
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<p>My first proposal has been to use a new sub-key in which to store
estimated values, as in "height:estimated=10".</p>
<p>Then I saw, here, the proposal of using
"source:height=estimated", which is in use (<i>1543 entries,
mostly applied to ways: see: </i>[1]), which I thought was a
better solution then the one I originally conceived.</p>
<p>Now I see that there is a different solution in use,
"height:source=estimated", which is less used (<i>149 entries,
mostly applied to ways: see: </i>[2]), but <b>makes even more
sense to me, from a syntactical point of view</b>.<br>
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<p>Someone also proposed to use "height:accuracy=*" if the accuracy
is known, but I think this could be used for an estimated value
too (height:accuracy=estimated). On the other hand this doesn't
seems to be in use anywhere even though it might be considered an
even better solution both syntactically and semantically (<i>I
think "source" should be used to identify "who" is the
originator of the information</i>).</p>
<p>In any case I think the various
est_(width|length|height|whatever) keys should be deprecated and a
new universal solution to identify estimated values should be
adopted, taken from the ones described above (<i>or a new one I'm
not thinking of</i><i> at this time</i>)<i>.</i><br>
</p></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I believe there is way too much fuzz about this, almost every number in OSM is estimated, the height of a tree cannot be measured to the mm even with the most precise instruments (and even if you could, it would be outdated within the same day). Just add the height.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Martin<br></div></div>