[OSM-talk] Proposal for Tag Prefixes

[Etienne]

On 10/27/06, Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 27/10/06, Etienne <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to make a proposal to formalise (as far as anything is ever
> formal
> > on OSM) a practice that I have been following for some time.
> >
> > "Tags may be prefixed with a value that corresponds to a wiki user Id
> > followed by a colon.  The owner of that wiki user Id has the right to
> > control the use of all such tags."
> >
>
> Sounds generally solid and a good use of tags.  Might I suggest using
> your OSM username rather than your wiki name though?  It seems
> sensible given that soon OSM will allow you to make your edits public
> using that name, and not your wiki name.


Once the wiki and OSM user names have been unified this makes a lot of
sense.  At the moment the OSM username is not very prominent and can be
altered by the user at any time.  The wiki Id is more persistent.  The
user's home page on the wiki is also the most obvious place to document tag
usage guidlines.

Hopefully the two will get unified sometime soon - which will be the master
when that happens?

Etienne



Best,
>
> Tom.
>
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