[OSM-talk] note= vs note=
Richard Fairhurst
richard at systemeD.net
Tue Jul 31 14:18:09 BST 2007
This is kind of a 'Proposed Features' point, but I'm unhelpfully only
identifying a problem rather than a solution, because I'm not enough
of a tag guru to do the latter:
The "note" tag appears to be used for two purposes.
Sometimes, it's general information about the node/way in question
which doesn't fit into the existing tagspace. For example, "note=built
in 1785", or "note=formerly a tunnel, now opened out", or "note=my
mate Dave was sick here".
Other times, it's a surveyor's note. For example: "note=formerly
tertiary but there's no way anything more than a small car could fit
down here", "note=I've done this from memory so the road number might
be wrong", "note=you should draw tunnels as a solid line and use these
tags, don't draw the dashes individually", etc.
The former might often be rendered on a public-facing map (maybe as a
tooltip for a webmap), the latter shouldn't be.
I think it'd be really helpful to differentiate the two tags. info= vs
tag=, maybe?
cheers
Richard
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