[Talk-GB] Designation: should we begin using prefixes

[Jonathan Harley]

On 02/05/12 16:38, Chris Hill wrote:
> On 02/05/12 16:29, Andrew Chadwick wrote:
>> designation=* has been evolving recently, and has added some open land
>> classifications:
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation#UK_Protected_Areas
>>
>> With the proliferation of these designation codes, would it make sense
>> to begin coming up with country- or jurisdiction-coded prefixes for
>> them, similar to the way we denote "national" speed limits?
> Not really, if the tag is in the UK (or, say, England if that makes a 
> difference) it is understandable that it is not anywhere else in the 
> world. It is a location-oriented database after all. The UK prefix on 
> speed limit tags is bonkers.
>

+1 for prefixes to designate a country on features which are already 
geographically located in a country being bonkers.

I'm not clear what problem these prefixes are supposed to solve, but if 
the problem is something like "how to identify tag usages within a 
specific country", build a tool that knows how to search a specific 
country, rather than placing the burden on mappers.

Jonathan.

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