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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 11, 2021, 22:52 by colin.smale@xs4all.nl:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div class=""><div>It's all this that makes it such a great shame that we don't make more effort to get tagging schemes "right first time," extensible and future-proof to some degree. The current process is more like design by committee and a "war of attrition" - when all the combatants have lost the will to live, whatever is left on the table becomes the closest we get to a consensus.<br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">It's essential to get guidance into the discussions covering fields of expertise such as data modelling and GIS.<br></div></div></blockquote><div>Is anyone familiar with some classification system actually better than OSM tagging,<br></div><div>used to classify things mapped in OSM (or some subset of that)<br></div><div>for use by people without specialized training?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Ones that I encountered suffer from at least one of:<br></div><div><br></div><div>- requires specialized training to use it<br></div><div><br></div><div>- requires rigorous following rules<br></div><div><br></div><div>- not intuitive, tricky to get right<br></div><div><br></div><div>- "design by committee" worse then organic growth of OSM tags<br></div><div><br></div><div>- compromised by special interests (applies especially to anything used<br></div><div>for tax purposes)<br></div><div><br></div><div>- useful only for specific regions, unusable globally<br></div><div><br></div><div>- unusable for rough mapping (for example from aerial images)<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>- low quality in practical use (someone designed complex hierarchical<br></div><div>building classification in Poland - actual government database is <br></div><div>filled with gem like<br></div><div>"rural building" -> "barn" -> "religious building" for barn building or<br></div><div>"rural building" -> "barn" -> "swimming pool" -> "church"<br></div><div>for church building that never was barn or a swimming pool).<br></div><div><br></div><div>What I encountered so far I would consider as evidence for<br></div><div>"OSM tagging is solving hard problem" as other schemes<br></div></div><div>were not much better, even when used by someone trained<br></div><div>in their use.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But I was not looking very hard.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Especially for a bit special use in OSM.<br></div> </body>
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