[Tagging] access tags (was contact: tags)

[Richard Z.]

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 12:22:07AM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > IMHO it would make editing and using data harder. It sounds like
> > something that should be improved by a better interface for editors
> > (grouping similar tags together).
> 
> 
> Exactly the problem. How can a computer tell that "dog" "hgv" and "mofa"
> should all be grouped?
> 
> With a prefix, a consumer like a smartphone app can group all the
> restrictions,.
> 
> Right now building automated tools against the data is fragile.  For
> example the access for boats is spread across quite
> a number of tags.  Even determining if a facility is applicable to a boat
> would require the consumer to keep up with
> all the various boat tags.  Having a class hierarchy would enable generic
> actions for watercraft, even if the data consumer
> did not understand all the options (e.g. generic "watercraft" which might
> be a fishing boat, wave runner, rowboat).

makes a lot of sense for me, the old system makes it pretty difficult to 
keep track of all possible tag combinations.

The transition from the old to the new system would probably take some time 
where the old and new system would have to coexist.

Richard