[Tagging] improve tagging of traffic_calming

[Dave Swarthout]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Gerd Petermann <
gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Well, of course diversity in tagging is a problem. For each data consumer
> and
> for each new mapper who tries to find out how to map something so that
> their
> preferred OSM-data-consuming-program is understanding the data.
> The problem exists and causes lots of work.
>

I agree. I served as a librarian for a while in a small city library. At
first I rebelled against strict adherence to the cataloging schemes all
American libraries use, either the Library of Congress Subjects headings or
the older Dewey Decimal System. But the reasons for using controlled
headings is to prevent the sort of chaotic system that OSM has become.

Now that I'm making my own maps and writing style rules it bugs me that I
have to make complex rules for all the "special tags" folks have put into
use over the years. Yikes, if there is no control at all, how will future
renderers and end users deal with the mess? It's fine to say don't map for
the renderer but let's be realistic, if none of this ever gets rendered
it's merely a database of numerical data.


-- 
Dave Swarthout
Homer, Alaska
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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