[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:06 AM Peter Gervai via osmf-talk <
osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> While machines can be taught to normalise keys and take "traffic_light"
> and "stop_light" and convert them internally to "traffic_signal", they
> cannot be taught that "smoothness=bad" in Ungaristan is the same as
> "smoothness=horrible" in Chillandia for a general case.


Well, this is absolutely possible.  Geographically-aware processing is
completely within our technical ability.  Now, this would be pretty
terrible for a key like "smoothness", but there are many very legitimate
cultural, legal, socioeconomical and organizational differences between
countries that might make it absolutely appropriate for the same tag to
have slightly differing meanings in different countries.

The real problem is when "objects tagged a certain way by Joe mean XYZ but
it means ABC when that tag is used by Alice".  That's when the meaning
becomes ambiguous and impossible to process.
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