[OSM-talk] A post box called Breuningsweiler

[David Earl]

> >This seems perverse to me when there are already tags for farms
> >(landuse=farm), woods(natural=wood or landuse=forest), works
> >(landuse=industrial) and so on. place is intended for conurbations.
> >Airports
> >shouldn't have place, but most do because whoever imported them
> all in bulk
> >did that throughout.
>
> There is a distinct difference here. If I create a way around a farm or
> whatever its logical to label it landuse. However on the whole what I am
> defining in these POI's is part of a location, an address. These are nodes
> giving the name of a place or feature, they are not landuse or indeed in
> many instances natural either.

I think that is too  literal an interpretation of the tag name.

The point is there _is_ already a way to represent the things you want to
add, and by not using it you are needing the consumers to change to
accommodate your persona way of tagging things, or have data that should be
rendered (searched, route planned, whatever) not be.

The way you are using tags seems to amount to "I don't happen to like the
tag name for a particular concept, therefore I'll invent my own which is
different from what everyone else is doing"

> >(Likewise, I've noticed quite a number of highway=minor in the Norwich
> >area;
> >again why not go with the flow?)
>
> Not sure I follow you here. I'm not aware I've ever used highway=minor for
> instance.

No, it wasn't you. It was the same general principle though: by not sticking
to the accepted tags, the map doesn't display (or process) properly by
consumers.

David