[OSM-talk] namespacing of tags

[Alex L. Mauer]

Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> Robin Paulson wrote:
>> there a few proposals currently on the wiki that have comments
>> regarding namespacing of tags. i understand the general concept of
>> what it is, but why do we need it? it appears to me to be an
>> unnecessary complication for a tag

IMO they should also be put in a namespace when the key itself is vague,
e.g. "type", "class", "surface", "status"..

type of what?  class of what?  status of what? how does this surface
value apply?  Is it saying that the tagged thing is on the surface, or
is it describing the surface of the tagged thing?

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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