[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

[Chris Andrew]

John,

This seems so fundamental to me, I'm guessing that this has already been
discussed and for some reason, not implemented.

Chris
chris_debian

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022, 03:37 john whelan, <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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