[Tagging] name and brand tags

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-09-24 16:32 GMT+02:00 Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl>:

> > Nameless object, with brand (for example petrol station).
> > IMHO it should be tagged brand=*, without name.
>
> That would cause backwards-compatibility problems for all data
> consumers



-1, if the name tag has values that aren't actually the name of the tagged
instance it should be removed. This is not about compatibility, but
cleaning up "tagging for the *-data-consumer".

If someone had added "name=beachvolleyball pitch" and natural=beach to
beach volleyball pitches it would also cause "backwards-compatibility
problems for all data consumers" if we changed the tagging to leisure=pitch
and removed the name tag (i.e. those pitches would vanish from products of
dataconsumers that don't render pitches but beaches).

IMHO the data consumers (and editors etc.) will update their projects
(btw.: if they haven't already, not that the brand tag was supernew, or
that this kind of tagging isn't advocated in the wiki since 4 years:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:brand&oldid=538574 ).

cheers,
Martin
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