[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

[Steve Hill]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Chris Hill wrote:

> Yes, because tags are applied to a node or a way and collectively the 
> tags make sense for that node or way.

What if an object needs to be tagged with multiple tags?  I can think of 
various reasons for doing this.  For example, a building might contain a 
postoffice and a supermarket, so you want to tag it as both.  You might 
then have specific tags which relate to just the postoffice bit and just 
the supermarket bit - to avoid collisions and make it clear which you are 
referring to it would make sense to have them in separate namespaces.

> This is, however, the *Open* Streetmap and you are free to tag climbing 
> routes anyway you want to.

Well yes, but having many completely inconsistent ways of tagging the same 
data seems rather counter productive.  This is, afterall, why we have the 
likes of the Map_Features page on the wiki, to try and give guidance on 
well throught through methods of tagging things.

  - Steve
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