[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles
Dave Stubbs
osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk
Thu Apr 24 12:10:53 BST 2008
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...
This is very true. The information content is the same. Ofcourse what
you've just done there is reinvent the key-value concept by using a
separator character and added this to your key.
So the question I have to ask is this: why?
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