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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 18, 2021, 21:43 by walker.t.bradley@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Dear All,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I’m curious about the applicability of definitions. If we have a substantial community that uses a certain feature, and is clear about how to tag it, does it matter for the rest of the community?<br></div></blockquote><div>Yes. For example clear definition, understandable to anyone interested is useful if:<br></div><div><br></div><div>- someone is interested in mapping given feature and looks for info how it should be mapped<br></div><div>(I am exactly in this situation with couloir - I just visited place where it would be useful<br></div><div>and I was unsure for which features it would be applicable[1])<br></div><div><br></div><div>- people mapping specific feature disagree about something <br></div><div>(without accepted definition it is basically impossible to resolve this)<br></div><div><br></div><div>- someone wants given feature to be processed or someone is contacted by <br></div><div>someone who wants this feature to be processed<br></div><div>(I was in this situation with multiple tags, lack of clear tagging situation is very often problematic<br></div><div>and blocks implementation )<br></div><div><br></div><div>- someone is processing related data and is not sure whatever some tag should be ignored<br></div><div>or taken into account (that is why I improved addr:conscriptionnumber documentation in 2019[2],<br></div><div>I needed to research it anyway to implement part of StreetComplete)<br></div><div>Fortunately in this case research was quite straightforward, tag was well designed - just<br></div><div>not documented in English.<br></div><div><br></div><div>and probably also in other situations.<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morskie_Oko_o_poranku.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morskie_Oko_o_poranku.jpg</a><br></div><div>[2] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:addr:conscriptionnumber&action=history">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:addr:conscriptionnumber&action=history</a><br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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