[Tagging] Tag:amenity=motorcycle_taxi not approved

Jarek PiĆ³rkowski jarek at piorkowski.ca
Mon May 11 00:56:50 UTC 2020


On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 18:35, Phake Nick <c933103 at gmail.com> wrote:
> At the end of the day we are not taking motorcycle taxi and taxi themselves. What's being tagged are waiting area for taxi or motorcycle taxis. What matters is that, if one is created as an optional subtag of another, would not using such subtag result in incorrect analysis of data when someone use those data, and the answer seems to me as yes.

Depends what question you're asking in the analysis, surely.

If your question is "where can get a ride" then the results won't be wrong.

If your question is "where can get a ride in an enclosed two-track
vehicle" then the results would be wrong in Indonesia. But if you're
asking that in Indonesia, you're probably also aware of the variety of
local modes of transportation and realize that you should ask a more
specific question.

You could make a similar argument for other amenities.
For example, if you're looking for a parking spot, and if your region
some parking lots are private, you need to take that into account when
doing the analysis.
If you are looking for a rapid transit station and you're in a
wheelchair, and in your area not all stations are accessible, you need
to take that into account when doing the search. This might not occur
to someone from an area where all stations are accessible, so should
we have a railway=inaccessible_station rather than wheelchair=no to
prevent incorrect analysis?

To me, this argument goes back to the same question of whether an
amenity=taxi is where you hire a ride, or where you hire a ride in an
enclosed vehicle that can fit 2+ passengers and probably a bit of
luggage.

--Jarek



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