[Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

[Marc Gemis]

I don't know the complete list of green variations. You assume there are
only three, there are many more, in order to catch them all you need
color:*green*=yes, a (simple) regular expression. Any other answer you come
up with is incomplete in my opinion.

Coming back to the traffic calming example. traffic_calming:table=yes and
traffic_calming:choker=yes.
When I want to know all traffic calming features I need
traffic_calming:*=yes, again a regular expression.

Even with your schema you will not be able to avoid that people will need
regular expressions to express some queries. I am not going to look for
other examples. I close the discussion from my side now, and accept that
you disagree. And that neither of us will be able to convince the other
that their solution is the silver bullet. Raw data  (e.g. try to obtain all
information about a bus route, and watch help.osm.org for some of the other
real data needs ) will always be too difficult to cope with for some people
and they will always have to rely on software that makes it easier for them
to work with it. That software can always be written by people that
understand, data, programming and regular expressions.

regards

m

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Никита <acroq3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well not perfect solution at the moment, but least I don't need to teach
> somebody regexes: "color:green"=yes | "color:lightgreen"=yes | "color:
> bluegreen"=yes | ...
>
>
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