[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - information=qr_code

Greg Troxel gdt at lexort.com
Mon Jun 20 13:51:32 UTC 2022


My own contrarian take is that QR codes are not actually
'tourism=information'.  They are a (not very good) pointer to
information which is *not actually present* at the node.

If we do map them, suggestions:

  have some way to denote if the information in the code is actually
  present in a human-readable way, like a printed URL.  I view QR codes
  without the content also printed to be deficient.

  Don't use tourism=information, because a QR code sticker on something
  is not generally useful, and tourism=information is expected to be.
  Some other kind of tag I don't really object to.  My point is that our
  tagging is hierarchical and there are implied semantics for the group.
  A bare QR code doesn't fit the information semantics in a real sense,
  even though it does in some nonuseful technical sense.
  
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