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

[Etienne]

On 7/20/06, Nicola Ranaldo <ranaldo at unina.it> wrote:
>
> > *Applaude*. I really enjoyed reading this, because that is exactly the
> > spirit I like to have in OSM. People who just use tags. :)
>
> remember etienne used a namespace :))))


Yes, the use of namespaces would enable both a rigid schema (such as Map
Features) and other personal or specialised schema to live together.  I'd
really like to see all Map Features tags (highway= etc) prefixed with mf:.

Now that Imi has given us the Annotation Presets for JOSM it should be easy
to add mf: without requiring more keystrokes from everyone.

Etienne

> 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 ;-).
>
> Some genetic software able to understand the ironic meanings of several
> petabytes of different  tags on year 2100 ? :)))
> I may tag all the place where i meet a girl :)) and other peoples could
> want
> in doing the same, if someone want to create a density map we have to
> share
> the same tag system!
>
> > 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" ;-)
>
> if someone rename them,  etienne rendering tools will break and etienne
> will
> ask you to rollback changes :)
>
> > (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.)
>
> I think we need rigid structures on a very well defined namespace for
> rendering/routeplanning.. STOP!...  and the total freedom on the "default"
> or
> alternatives namespaces.
> Josm, osmarender, osmeditor, osmviewer, and other tools already base their
> rendering engine on some "de facto" standards.
> I think you do not want someone enter your preferred area and breaks all
> your
> work adopting a strange, creative, beautiful tagging system colliding
> with "de facto" system...  :)
>
> Regards
>
>         Niko
>
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