<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 12:16, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">That is a negative for me, I like property tags that can be used anywhere appropriate.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The authors of at least one editor disagree with you there. Unless all of the possible</div><div> values are applicable to all objects for which that property is appropriate, they won't</div><div> implement a preset for it. If objects of type A get one subset of values but objects</div><div>of type B get a different subset of values then it won't get implemented. Because</div><div>they populate drop-downs from the wiki and/or wikidata. In this particular case,</div><div>all farm animals might be found in zoos but not all zoo animals will be found on</div><div>farms. Having a common property tag would lead to a drop-down for farm</div><div>animals including pandas, bears, gold eagles, reticulated pythons, etc. because</div><div>it would be populated from the same (hypothetical) wiki(data) page that covers zoo</div><div> and farm animals.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't necessarily agree with the thinking of those editors in all the cases they've</div><div>applied it to, but that IS what they think. And if a tag isn't supported by popular editors</div><div>it won't get used much. In this case, I wouldn't want to have to wade through a drop-down</div><div>of all zoo animals to add farm animals, so I tend to agree with them.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
OSM does not have separate height tags for buildings, bridges, signs, fences etc etc. One tag makes much more sense.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A height is a height is a height, whatever it is applied to. Many zoo animals are not farm animals.</div><div>A height is a numeric value, a list of animals is a list: editors handle numeric values and lists</div><div>with different GUI interfaces to make life easier (type in a number versus add items in a list).<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Paul</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>