[OSM-talk] NoName

Gervase Markham gerv-gmane at gerv.net
Sun Sep 14 21:05:44 BST 2008


Ben Laenen wrote:
> I guess there are more issues like this where a feature is absent, and 
> where we need some way to tag this as absent. A noname=yes tag works ok 
> for names, but not for anything else, so we need something more 
> flexible. Perhaps add a "n/a" value to the tags?

n/a stands for "Not Applicable", which isn't quite what we want to say
in these cases. If anything, you want n/e, for "non-existent". But
that's not nearly as understandable as "none".

Gerv





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