[Tagging] Twisted semantics of entrance=exit and entrance=emergency

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 10 Jun 2022, at 13:49, Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
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> The reason for the current situation is that we lack a good English term that could be used for "entrance-or-exit".
> 


There are words that could be used, like opening or passage. I don’t believe we have to over engineering or optimize this. We have a different key for every payment type and one for every type of fuel, which problem is big enough to make us undergo a painfull transition from the current entrance=* and exit=* tags to something different?




> Having separate top-level keys for entrances and exits is undesirable. Perhaps the strongest of several reasons for this is that the vast majority of such features can be used as both an entrance AND an exit.


so what? We can imply exit=yes for entrance=* unless explicitly stated.

You are assuming with “such features” that an emergency exit and a main entrance are something of the same kind, but this isn’t the only possible interpretation, someone else could see emergency exits completely different from entrances, something similar to required staircases or smoke control doors.

For many applications, exits will not be relevant, they will only be interested in entrances.

I can imagine many reasons why separating exits and entrances isn’t a bad idea, but most of all I believe the power required to make such a change could be invested in many more fruitful ways.

Cheers Martin