[Tagging] better classification systems

[Colin Smale]

> On 02/12/2021 6:31 PM Niels Elgaard Larsen <elgaard at agol.dk> wrote:
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> Colin Smale:
> >> On 02/12/2021 5:02 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> FWIW, I believe it would be a very bad idea to switch to codes rather than keeping human readable tags, but I am very sure it will not happen :)
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> > There is a half-way house - a managed/curated list of short-form values, which you can immediately understand although they are not usable in a UI. This allows you to understand the data "at a glance" but still forces the UI to take care of the presentation.
 
> Which is much like our OSM tags.
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> In Osmand I can search for accoomodation, food, etc.
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> Is JOSM I can add the preset "Automatic Teller Machine"
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> > Example: ISO country codes which need mapping to strings for human consumption
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> They are often not mapped. I have "DK" on my number plate. I can ccTLD in my browser.
> I can use country codes in postal codes.

Of course there are plenty of examples where it looks ok. But the system that allowed landuse=grass to become so widespread is still in need of maintenance.

I am not talking about changes to the tagging, but a review of the governance of the tagging.