[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

[john whelan]

I strongly suspect assets are tagged differently depending when they were
mapped and even who mapped them.

Many years ago locally one mapper prefered to use traffic_lights rather
than traffic_signals on the grounds that he mapped them and to him they
were traffic lights.

Whilst we try to defer to local mappers as we mature and software tries to
make sense of our tags is it time to formalise at least some tagging
standards?

This would enable software to be used and interpret the map in different
parts of the world in the same way.

Even if we could say to end users something like traffic_signals is our
"Standard" way to tag I think this would be an improvement or have I missed
something and there are standards but the world ignores them.

Thoughts please

Thanks John
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