[Tagging] Feature proposal - Voting - Gambling (reminder)

fly lowflight66 at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 9 14:38:55 UTC 2014


On 09.01.2014 15:07, Martin Vonwald wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 2014/1/9 fly <lowflight66 at googlemail.com
> <mailto:lowflight66 at googlemail.com>>
> 
>     .... and only use gambling, especially as
>     it might collide with another value of amenity.
> 
> 
> In my opinion we all really should start accepting that a key might have
> more than one possible value. I don't see any problem in
> amenity=pub;gambling .


I would decide between the major key and subkeys.
amenity=restaurant/bar/pub/nightclub might be a special case due to
history but can be solved in different was.

> -----
> Ok, you don't like the semi-colon, so lets move gambling to a different
> key - now we have amenity=pub + gambling=yes -> problem solved. Fine.
> Oh, wait - there's a pub that's also a nightclub! amenity=pub;nightclub?
> No way, so lets move nightclub to a different key - problem solved!
> Again. One moment: this pub sells ice_cream! No problem, just move
> ice_cream to a different key....
> -----
> 
> See what I mean?

Yes

> The sooner we start to accept multiple values the less problems we will
> have in the future. <--- my opinion!

+1

I do not like all the tahes with yes/no as values either. Have a look at
the recycling wiki page for an example.

fly



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