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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 12, 2021, 08:47 by tomasstraupis@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>2021-02-12, pn, 09:24 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging rašė:<br></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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.<br></div></blockquote><div>Can you give a specific example of actually existing system?<br></div><div><br></div><div>"well designed system of classification that covers everything<br></div><div>in field, deals well with new appearing objects, works worldwide,<br></div><div>is not confusing and is easy to use" sounds relatively simple<br></div><div>until someone start to actually create one.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I suspect that "plan properly from the beginning" is not sufficient.<br></div><div><br></div><div>So I am curious is there any success story in the field.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> 1. You have codes instead of words for key=values.<br></div></blockquote><div>It seems to fail due to "requires specialized training to use it" part<br></div><div>(or description/name would be tightly coupled to codes,<br></div><div>that would just add extra step for additional complexity without<br></div><div>any benefit)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>1b. When using codes a user is forced to look up in the dictionary<br></div><div>what that code means and that description is no longer restricted in<br></div><div>length.<br></div></blockquote><div>Use of tags like <br></div><div>man_made=scaled_down_streets_that_may_be_used_for_traffic_safety_education_or_as_a_type_of_a_playground<br></div><div>is entirely possible with current OSM tags, just noone likes this idea.<br></div><div> <br></div><div>(this was proposed half-serious in<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/scaled_down_streets_that_may_be_used_for_traffic_safety_education_or_as_a_type_of_a_playground">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/scaled_down_streets_that_may_be_used_for_traffic_safety_education_or_as_a_type_of_a_playground</a><br></div><div>)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> 1c. This eradicates pointless discussion if A or B is a better word<br></div><div>to describe feature class C.<br></div></blockquote><div>And you have the same discussion about code description <br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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