[OSM-talk] Proposal for 'description' tag

Andy Robinson Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Sep 19 08:54:59 BST 2006


To date I've been adding this kind of additional data to the "note" key but
you are right that a "description" tag allows it to be more specific rather
than just any old comment.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>Subject: [OSM-talk] Proposal for 'description' tag
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>I've made a proposal
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Description
>for a 'description' annotation tag:
>
>- A short human-readable description of the parent
>node/segment/way/area in any language that amplifies the 'name'
>tag.  For example a park: "Includes children's play area and boat-hire".
>
>- Primary purpose - to save surveyed information and observation in a
>directly readable form in a uniform across-the-board tag that can be
>used directly in a secondary map mouse-over pop-up, in a text
>listings and for geo-referenced text search-engines.
>
>'description' is also part of the Dublin Core.
>
>I'd guess the main argument against it is that there is already a
>'note' annotation tag.  For me the two are separate as a 'note' might
>be anything put in by the data gatherer whereas a 'description'  is
>intended to be looked at by directly by an end-user and should be
>succinct and readable.  I'd welcome thoughts.
>
>Mike
>Oz
>
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