[OSM-talk] Personal tags

[Andy Robinson]

Bruce Cowan [mailto:bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com] wrote:
>Sent: 12 April 2007 2:34 PM
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: osm at na1400.info; talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Personal tags
>
>On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 14:25 +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
>
>> There is a little danger here that new potential data creators will feel
>> that they have to use standard tags and that also they have to have
>> alternative tags approved before they can use them. Since OSM was
>originally
>> conceived to permit fully freeform tagging we wouldn't want to give the
>> wrong impression.
>
>I understand this view, but I think it is important to have people using
>the same tags for the same feature.  Somebody might not realise that
>others are also tagging cairns on the top of mountains, but with a
>different tag to the one they are using.  Surely it would be best if
>everyone used the same tag?
>

It might be a lot simpler to index the planet file regularly and add tags to
the map features page when they have a decent number of entries. That way we
can pick up new tags fairly easily and then new users will see them via the
map features page.

In fact going one better, why don't we scrap the map features page and just
use the planet file tag index?

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 


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>Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com>