[OSM-talk] Users, contributors and developers

[Nick Whitelegg]

>We were talking about the order and the name of what in database 
>terms is just a third column (in addition to key and value). So 
>should it be called namespace or subkey or what and in what order 
>should it be given?

Namespaces are probably my preference as they allow more "freeform" 
tagging - they allow you to use your own tagging scheme for your own needs 
in addition to the standard OSM tagging. e.g. if I want to invent a 
"pathtype" tag which distinguishes between the different types of paths in 
the New Forest, I can stick it in a "newforest" namespace. The subkey 
approach does not really allow this, at least not intuitively.

Nick