[OSM-talk] No_comments=yes

[Ben Robbins]

Bridge=yes and Tunnel=yes and all the other=yes.   Why are they keys not 
values?  Its not primary=yes, hamlet=yes, or parking=yes.  They have all 
been sorted into cleanly orgransied catagories.  I can understand why the 
_=yes excists, becuase somethings that seem alike will be needed together. 
(e.g. layers)  I think the method of putting yes/true after somethign is 
very messy though.

I proposed features/structures=xyz as a over all catagorie a while ago after 
discussion in the IRC.  No debate though..no comments. Great, so I come to 
the mailing list instead of the wiki.  Is the policy currently don't worry 
about a problem until its killed us?.  I think all these messy tags, and 
none exsistent or unused tags really need sorting out pronto.  Why not try 
and stay ahead, and be organised from the start rather than confronting the 
large self built barriers at a later date?

Nobody answered to my preivous email either.  
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-February/010899.html  .  
Cheers.

I have one additional question, but I'll skim over it casue I dought there 
will be a responce.  Trails.  In a wood or where ever there is nature 
trails.*  Has anyone done these?  I considered (route_ref=xyz, colour=red) 
for example.  There is rendering problems with this though, but I won't 
bother listing them.  If no responce then I shall custom tag, but this will 
be a problem at some future point.

*nature trails not being just footpaths.  But usually suggested circular 
walks.

Ben

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