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

[Steve Hill]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Cartinus wrote:

> Almost nobody would accept it if we suddenly had to use railway:name=,
> highway:name=, etc. on all ways just because there are some places where
> people want to tag the street and the the tramway on the same way object.
>
> What you'd need is a solution that works for all tags, not a few tags with
> namespace parts and all the rest without.

Maybe the editors just need a new way of presenting the namespacing.  This 
is basically no more than a tree architecture and makes a lot of sense to 
me.  e.g. (using semi-fictional tags):

.
|-- highway
|   |-- type = residential
|   |-- name = Foo Street
|   `-- ref = B1234
|-- cycleway
|   `-- ref = 5
`-- railway
     |-- type = tram
     `-- ref = 78

I think that namespacing only raises the barrier to entry if it is 
inconsistent and isn't presented by the editors in a good way.

  - Steve
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