[Tagging] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)
John Eldredge
john at jfeldredge.com
Wed Jun 3 00:28:11 UTC 2015
The reason for tag/value pairs such as oneway=no is that the absence of a
oneway tag can mean either that it is unknown whether a given way is
one-way or not, or that it is definitely known to be not be one-way. Using
one-way=no states that it is definitely known not to be one-way.
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On June 2, 2015 7:06:26 PM "pmailkeey ." <pmailkeey at googlemail.com> wrote:
> iD shows oneway=unknown if it's not set. If it's unknown, iD should not
> show oneway at all.
>
> In OSM if oneway=no then it's not oneway and the oneway tag should not
> appear at all.
>
> The only time oneway should appear is in the case of oneway=yes - and the
> '=yes' is superfluous.
>
> OSM's k=v design is completely a serious and unnecessary flaw. Similarly
> are 'categories' like man_made', and 'amenity'.
>
> Why can we not simply stick to hard facts rather guessing what categor(ies)
> an object fits in
>
>
> A fountain is a fountain. It does not matter if it is
>
> - an amenity
> - man made
> - natural water (???!!)
>
> etc. Such categorization is semi-ambiguous; people think differently and
> are happy to categorize differently - and more - argue over categories.
>
> OSM is 90% argument, 5% dead-end discussions and 5% progress. The whole is
> not a marketable product; it's not fit to be rated as 'beta'. Is this a
> significant cause of ex-mappers ? It's a flipping brilliant project but
> sadly lacking a great leader.
>
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