[OSM-talk] [tagging] Current access rules

[Ben Laenen]

On Saturday 28 June 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:10:54PM +0200, Ben Laenen wrote:
> > * without making use of the namespaces like bicycle:oneway=*
>
> This is slightly tangential to your question but I take exception
> to the way people use the term "namespace" over and over again
> in osm discussions. It seems that everyone believes "if it has a
> colon then it's a namespace". That is bollocks - "bicycle:oneway"
> is just a structured tag, or a tag with a colon in it, but it
> doesn't have a "namespace".

Don't understand me wrong there, I have nothing against namespaces (or 
however one wants to call things with colons in it). I was hoping that 
the people hating everything about namespaces would turn up and propose 
alternatives :-p

I'd just like to find the easiest and cleanest possible way to get a 
partially two way road in OSM. If people like to see things like 
bicycle:oneway=* or good:maxweight=*, good, but I want to see formal 
definitions instead of what we have now.

Greetings
Ben