[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

[Steve Hill]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> It almost sounds like the proposal is to use namespaces in place of a
> 'type' property on the object... which I personally think would be a
> better way to go than to namespace every tag...

The idea is to make the context of the tag much more obvious.  This can be 
done by either using namespaces on the tag itself, or having a method of 
unambiguously identifying the context of the object itself.

I don't pretend to understand what was wrong with the old class system, 
which seemed to achieve this to some extent.

On the other hand, having namespaces in the tag name itself does have the 
advantage that it gives people clues that they might be using the wrong 
tag..


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