[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

[Steve Hill]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Cartinus wrote:

> A machine wouldn't know without a set of rules or a hierarchy.

Isn't part of the point of OSM to produce a data set that _is_ machine 
readable?  I consider lack of machine readability to be a real problem.

> plus it is filled with lots of "background" knowledge.

I think the context is only "obvious" to those who have been dealing with 
the structure of the OSM data set for some time.

> Once again you have removed the context from your example

I have said the source of that context can be extremely ambiguous.  This 
is not the same as removing context - it is simply that you can't 
necessarilly identify the context.  This is a problem.

> * with a certain purpose

And what is that purpose?

> * shown in an editor

Not necessarilly.

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