[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Unifying playground equipment tagging)

[Sven Geggus]

Sören Reinecke via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Proposal:
> I propose the key playground to be deprecated and the use of key
> playground:* instead. That would mean that on both playground and
> playground equipment objects in OSM the key playground:* applies. This
> then would also allow to map playgrounds and their equipment in
> situations where a playground just has one equipment and this equipment
> fills up the whole area of the playground.

I do not like the idea of pseudo namespacing signle keys at all. I would even go
further to say that I generally prefer generic keys over special ones.

We already had this discussion in tourism=camp_pitch vs.
camp_site=camp_pitch.

Using the former instead of the latter will make live easier for database
imports.

Thus your proposal will make imports even more complicated as it will need
wildcard processing for keys like this:

"import all objects tagged playgroud:<something>"
instead of just
"import all objects tagged playground".

Regards

Sven

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