[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 107

[Karl Newman]

It seems that a lot of the reasons for requesting namespaces is the
potential for confusion about which tag sets the context in a flat tag
namespace. What about the idea of having a "context" tag which points to the
tag that sets the context (if it's deemed to be ambiguous). For example, for
a highway=footpath, context=highway. For climbing=rock, context=climbing.
Then a human or machine could look at the corresponding tag and see what the
rest of the tags are attributing.

Thoughts?

Karl
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