[Tagging] better classification systems

[Martin Machyna]

Just to clarify, I was not advocating for changing the system. I wanted 
to say that if OSM would have gone on the route of number codes instead 
of human readable form, everyone would realize that it is pointless to 
have discussions about what meaning particular tag has in language XY or 
some dialect of English.

Plus you can do cool stuff with numbers.


On 12.2.21 11:02 , Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> On 12 Feb 2021, at 16:54, Martin Machyna <machyna at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Otherwise I agree that having tags as codes rather than words might be better, because they would be anyways hidden behind editor presets for typical OSM mapper
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> if they are hidden anyway it does not matter at all how they look like.
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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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> Cheers Martin
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