[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

[80n]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Chris Jones <rollercow at sucs.org> wrote:

>
> On 23 Apr 2008, at 16:07, Andy Allan wrote:
>
> > I can say from my experience of teaching IT concepts to very smart
> > people (i.e. until recently I was an IT support manager at a large
> > uni) that this namespacing stuff is a step too far for most people. My
> > experience introducing other people to OSM would back that up.
> >
> > We know that simple tagging makes sense to many people. We know that
> > namespacing makes sense to everyone in this discussion, and that many
> > people who understand it *still* disagree with its blanket use in OSM.
>
> The issue is complexity?
>
> So what's wrong with using name spacing and just don't tell people...
> as far as they know its tagging with a : in. The folks that care
> about such things will know and everyone else is blissfully unaware.
> Sure your tags get a little longer, but the two main editors can auto-
> complete such things
>
> I doubt it makes much difference to average Jo Mapper if you suggest
> he tags stuff as
>
> foo=bar
> bar=value
>
> or
>
> foo:bar=value
>
> Just my 2p...
>


Namespaces are evil.  Use hyphenspaces instead ;)

foo:bar=value is badness
foo-bar=value is goodness

80n


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