[OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 17:52, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We've long since passed the point where "amenity" is an accurate
>> description for the value that comes after it. In the OpenStreetMap
>> database "amenity" is best pronounced as "a thingy" :)
> Is that a reason to not improve things (or try to )?

We get "let's reorganize the tags" threads here bimonthly with the
results you can plainly see. Personally I think it's better to build
some sort of system on top of the key-value tag system that provides
metadata about what tags mean, that two different tags are actually
the same thing (like local spelling differences) and so on.

So far we only have the non-machine readable wiki for that purpose and
things like the JOSM presets.