[Tagging] improve tagging of traffic_calming

Dave Swarthout daveswarthout at gmail.com
Sat Nov 21 09:45:15 UTC 2015


On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>
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.
>>
>
My last message got partly lost:

I agree. I served as a librarian for a while in a small city library. I
rebelled against strict adherence to the cataloging schemes all American
libraries use, either the Library of Congress Subject Headings or the older
Dewey Decimal System. But the reasons for this are to enhance the ability
to search and find books by subject. If anyone can use any subject they
like, it would be chaos. OSM is tending to go that way.

Now that I am writing my own style rules it vexes me that I have to write
complex rules in order to take into account all the various tags folks have
come up with to describe objects in the manner they like.




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