[Talk-GB] max_age=toddler? | Re: Playground age limits

[Michael Collinson]

My thoughts also.

The description tag is very underused , IMHO. Specialist tags are 
undoubtedly extremely useful, they are precise, (should be) unambiguous 
and machine-read-friendly, but they do need to gain traction to be 
useful and are unfriendly when trying to convey fuzzy information, as 
seems to be the case here. And of course both can be used together when 
doing something new.

Mike

On 2019-06-05 01:35, Warin wrote:
> Rather than enter text into a value where a number is expected .. why 
> not use the description tag?
> Description=For supervised younger children.
> Description=For unsupervised older children.
>
> ??
>
> On 05/06/19 03:51, SK53 wrote:
>> It might be germane to this discussion to consider minheight & 
>> maxheight as possible values. Certainly in ski resorts it is not 
>> uncommon to see minimum heights for certain chair lifts (typically 
>> 1.25m) and I think I've seen similar on amusement park rides. Height 
>> is more likely to be a determining factor, even if not explicitly signed.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 18:34, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk 
>> <mailto:phil at trigpoint.me.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 16:49 +0100, Martin Wynne wrote:
>>     > > What about `max_age=toddler`? (i.e. the oldest you can be is "a
>>     > > toddler"), likewise `min_age=young_child` for the "older"
>>     one? (Is
>>     > > that
>>     > > the best term?) Yes it's not a numeric age, but it's better than
>>     > > nothing?
>>     >
>>     > Thanks Rory.
>>     >
>>     > I wondered about that. If a tag expects a numeric value, is it
>>     ok to
>>     > enter text?
>>     >
>>     > Or should I invent a new tag, such as maybe age_range=toddler?
>>     >
>>     > Is "toddler" too UK-specific? Does everyone understand it to mean
>>     > the
>>     > same thing? Is "infant" younger or older than "toddler"?
>>     >
>>     > For the older children, I wondered about "school-age", although of
>>     > course there are also infant schools for toddlers.
>>     >
>>     The playgrounds around here have a specific age on the signs, can't
>>     remember off the top of my head what it is, but it is a lot older
>>     than
>>     toddlers. If it stops raining I will go and have a look at the local
>>     one. It will be something between 8 and 12.
>>
>>     The other area has no age limits and it would be wrong for us to
>>     assume
>>     one, each child is different and they will work out for
>>     themselves (or
>>     with parental guidance) when they are ready. There will certainly
>>     be a
>>     huge crossover.
>>
>>     Phil (trigpoint)
>>
>>
>
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