[Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

[Craig Loftus]

> Who happen to be the kind of people to invent new colon-delineated key
> namespaces and find them easy to use, as it happens.

I almost feel guilty for bring them up, but only almost because it has
been illuminating. In mentioning them, apart from trying to be as open
as possible, I was also thinking about how to be more specific about
the type of brewery say, without introducing keys for every type of
drink under the sun, i.e., allowing
craft:brewery=ale;wheat_beer;fruit_beer, whilst still allowing a
simple craft:brewery=yes. I've seen this approach recommended on the
basis that it "limits entries in the global namespace". Does anyone
know of a current implementation that actually takes advantage of
namespaces in this sense?

> If colon-delineated is for the ultra-geeky, then this must be the work of
> the über-geeky:

That is nothing, my current favourite is
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/access_restrictions_1.5

With beautiful constructions like:
access:vehicle?school_zone.maxspeed=30
access:motorized+electric?hov_time.occupants=1+

Craig

On 8 November 2011 12:45, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Andy,
>
> On 11/08/2011 12:12 PM, Andy Allan wrote:
>>
>> Colon-delineated key namespaces are the exact opposite of
>> "easy-for-mappers", for all bar a very few ultra-geeky mappers. Who
>> happen to be the kind of people to invent new colon-delineated key
>> namespaces and find them easy to use, as it happens.
>
> If colon-delineated is for the ultra-geeky, then this must be the work of
> the über-geeky:
>
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=%26%26#keys
>
> (and they have a 16:1 majority...
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/parking)
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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