[OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC: railway=incline

[Ulf Lamping]

Andy Allan schrieb:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
>   
>> Sven Geggus wrote:
>>  >
>>  > To be serious, I don't like this pseudo object-oriented
>>  > railway:incline:traction= stuff at all.
>>
>>  Huh?  object oriented?  It's like that in order to prevent potential
>>  conflicts, not anything to do with object orientation.
>>     
> Gah. All the namespacing appears to be there to raise the barrier to
> entry, rather than solving any real problem. Once again, I will say
> that it is unnecessarily complicated. If I find a traction=something I
> will know that you are talking about railway traction because it is on
> a railway=something object. In the same way, I will know that
> capacity=100 means that it's a chairlift capacity because it's on a
> chairlift, not a car park, and any "piste:thing:capacity" is a waste
> of time. You are simply making the tagging extremely complicated to
> remember.
>
> Please, please, please stop with the namespacing. We have tens of
> thousands of volunteers who won't understand what it means, and it
> doesn't actually solve any real problems.
>   
FULL ACK!!!

Regards, ULFL