[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

[Zeke Farwell]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 5:31 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Am Do., 20. Okt. 2022 um 18:13 Uhr schrieb Zeke Farwell <
> ezekielf at gmail.com>:
>
>> I wonder what those of you speaking out against tagging standardisation
>> think about web standards?
>>
>
> I don't think this is comparable. webstandards are like the editing API,
> nothing a normal user has to care for.
>

I see many parallels between HTML and OSM data.  They are both structured,
declarative languages for describing something.  In the case of HTML, a web
page.  In the case of OSM data a representation of geographic features.
HTML is rendered by multiple different web browsers.  OSM data is rendered
by multiple different map providers.  Of course they are not the same, but
they certainly are comparable.  It's true that a normal user doesn't care
about HTML, much in the same way that a normal OSM mapper doesn't care
about tags and just uses editor presets.

tagging standardization is like language standardization, telling you which
> words you should use when speaking and which distinctions shouldn't be done.
>

I've heard this often repeated, but that doesn't make it true.   Though it
can sometimes seem like OSM has its own unique dialect of English, nobody
speaks in OSM tags.  It's not that kind of language.

--
Zeke
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