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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 25, 2023, 01:13 by gdt@lexort.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist@gmail.com> writes:<br></div><blockquote><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><div>On 24 Jun 2023, at 00:29, Minh Nguyen <minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>But if we focus too pedantically on legal status at the expense of<br></div><div>common sense, then we've reinvented designation=*, and mappers and<br></div><div>data consumers have to find yet another key to express what could've<br></div><div>been in highway=*.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>oh yes, absolutely, if legal status and common sense/reality are not congruent we should record both.<br></div></blockquote><div>(...)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>But none of that matters to OSM; if there is a shop that is selling<br></div><div>cannabis, then it is tagged as such, regardless of whether it is a<br></div><div>federal crime but not a state crime, a crime under neither legal regime,<br></div><div>or a crime under both. And it doesn't matter exactly how either regime<br></div><div>defines what is or is not unlawful.<br></div><div><br></div><div>So I find the attention to legal definitions in the present discussion<br></div><div>bizarre.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">That is a different situation. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">shop=medical_cannabis would be analogous to shop=firearms<br></div><div dir="auto">as it is a legal term (if I understood it right) with variety of differences<br></div><div dir="auto">across places and wild changes in its definition over time, and<br></div><div dir="auto">therefore a poor terms to use in OSM (like shop=firearms apparently)<br></div> </body>
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