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<div dir="auto">Sarah Hoffmann wrote:<br />
> I don't think this is a question of how simple or complicated the <br />
> data is or where it is stored. The essential point is tool support.<br />
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I wouldn't disagree with that. But if the data is too complex then tool support won't happen. Anyone with access to a standard JSON library can knock up a GeoJSON parser in half an hour, whereas the opening_hours syntax is so complex that after 14 years there are just a handful of implementations which, crucially, don't even include one in Lua (for osm2pgsql, OSRM, tilemaker etc.).<br />
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We probably also need to avoid adding higher and higher barriers to entry for people coding fresh tools to use OSM data.<br />
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In other words, a defaults file which targets the 80% case is probably good (leaving us to rely on manual tagging for the remaining 20%), but let's not do an opening_hours and try to hit 100% with it.<br />
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Richard</div>
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