[OSM-talk] my own properties (was: Map Features tagging question)

[Andy Robinson]

Immanuel Scholz wrote:
>Sent: 20 July 2006 20:43
>To: Etienne
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] my own properties (was: Map Features tagging question)
>
>Hi,
>
>> So any tags, or values starting 80n: are mine and will not have (much)
>> meaning to anyone else.
>>
>> One example.  When I tag a way with a street name, I add the filename
>> of photo that I used as a source as image=80n:dsc01234.jpg.  Many
>> people may have a photo with a filename of dsc01234.jpg, but the 80n
>> prefix identifies it as referring to _my_ photo.
>>
>> Another example.  I wanted to render a map that showed all major roads
>> in an area but only a selected few unclassified roads.  I tagged those
>> roads I wanted with 80n:ibm=yes and then used a modified version of
>> the osmarender rules file to only select ways that had that tag, like
>> this:
>>
>> <rule e="way" k="80n:ibm" v="yes">
>>   <rule e="way" k="highway" v="unclassified">...</rule>
>> </rule>
>>
>> The purpose here was to show only the relevant roads leading to a
>> particular IBM facility, and suppress all the irrelevant roads in the
>> area.  It worked quite well.
>
>*Applaude*. I really enjoyed reading this, because that is exactly the
>spirit I like to have in OSM. People who just use tags. :)
>
>My hope is, that more people just use the tagging system at what it is:
>A big storage of key/value pairs to do creative stuff with ;-).
>
>And if someone likes your "ibm" (btw: what does it mean? ;) tag, then he
>can rename or copy the tag to something like "important=yes" ;-)
>
>
>(And if anyone say anything like "performance" or "privacy", then we
>will probably need tag-separation by different servers to solve this.
>IMHO what we don't need is rigid structures.)
>
>Just my two cents, Imi
>

here here, I'll second that

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Cheers

Andy


Andy Robinson
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