[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

[Tom Hughes]

In message <c4193f8c0804180644o7931daf0w774d23e74928f71a at mail.gmail.com>
        Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, I see the problem. You are taking a tag away from it's context,
> and then complaining that the tag has no context on its own. Only part
> of your argument is based around conflicts, but the rest seems to be
> context.
>
> How do I tell that name="The Duke's Head" refers to the name of a pub?
> I don't feel the need for amenity:pub:name= and highway:primary:name=
> in order to solve this issue. Instead, I examine the context of the
> original tag, and find that it is the name of a pub.

Because the name tag is always the name of an object, regardless of
what that object is (the amenity=pub tells you what sort of object it
is in this case). It is clear to everybody that a name tag is going
to tell you the name of something without having to know anything else
about it.

It is not clear to anybody outside a very specific community what
a tag called "french" is likely to mean.

Tom

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