[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - trafficability

Jean-Marc Liotier jm at liotier.org
Wed Jan 15 17:29:29 UTC 2014


On 15/01/2014 18:14, Gerald Weber wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I don't understand. Why is the problem in passing along 
> a few words of helpful and perhaps life-saving advice in free-text? 
> Especially considering that it may not be possible to convey the exact 
> meaning by a list of pre-established tag-values?

No problem, as long that this discussion does not end with "let's use 
free text instead of attributes"... Which is not what you are advocating 
- so no problem.

But wherever something can be encoded in an attribute instead of 
expressed in free text, that is where it should be. But, as this 
conversation underlines, there might be a diminishing return in encoding 
extremely rare attributes.




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