[Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

On 15/05/2014 18:22, fly wrote:
>
>     Pretty much everyone has agreed that the type=* is being abused and that
>     chaining sport=boules;boules=petanque is cleaner so I'm going to correct
>     the 718 occurrences of sport=boules;type=petanque into
>     sport=boules;boules=petanque.
>
> This would be an automatic edit and at least should be open for
> discussion for more than some days.

Yes - I'll let it cool down for a while.

>> I might also do it for sport=boules;type=bocce which would become
>> sport=boules;boules=bocce.
>>
>> There are 1093 occurrences of sport=boules;type=* :
>> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/3oF
> Well then why not use boules:type ?

 From messages here, on talk and on talk-fr, there seem to be a 
consensus about namespace chaining such as sport=boules;boules=bocce. No 
one has offered sport=boules;boules:type=bocce - maybe because the 
boules namespace most probably won't expand into complexity that 
justifies subkeys.

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