[Tagging] Tagging Digest, Vol 69, Issue 38

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Mon Jun 8 19:06:19 UTC 2015


> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 15:48:56 +0200
> From: Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
> To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
>         <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tagging] location=roof ?
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> 2015-06-08 14:39 GMT+02:00 Richard <ricoz.osm at gmail.com>:
>
>> someone added location=roof to the wiki
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:location&diff=1083742&oldid=997238
>>
>> somehow this does not seem to fit well with the other values,
>> what are the opinions on that?
>>
>
>
> can you explain where you see the problems? Looking at taginfo, roof seems
> one of the more used values with more then 2000 occurences:
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/location#values
>
> Cheers,
> Martin

All of the other values are generic.  "Roof" identifies a specific
object.  If we open this up to specific objects, there could be an
infinite number of possibilities for the key value.

Mark



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