[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

[Steve Hill]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Dave Stubbs wrote:

> a Good Thing, but you can't tell me why, and you ignore my reasons why not.

Nope, I told you why, as did other people.

> This is the problem dude, you don't get why you're doing it.

I understand exactly why I'm doing it.

> I like to know why I'm doing something, and dislike being told "because".
> So far you've not actually come up with anything except statements of
> belief, and a few potential non-uses.

I'm in the same boat - I think the flat namespace is a really really bad 
idea and yet no one has actually come up with any good explanations as to 
why it is the right way to do things.  The only explanation that seems to 
keep coming up is that new users find name spaces "difficult" - I am 
certainly not in a position to evaluate whether this is the case (although 
from my own perspective they are easier), and I don't believe you are in a 
position to comment on whether this is actually the case.  In fact, the 
one relatively inexperienced user who has made a comment in this 
discussion seemed to indicate that nameapaces made things easier.

  - Steve
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