[Tagging] improve tagging of traffic_calming

[Colin Smale]

+1 to that. 

On 2015-11-21 10:15, Dave Swarthout wrote: 

> 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.
> 
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