[OSM-talk] Proposed Amenity Reorganization

[David Earl]

On 24/06/2009 00:43, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> gregory at arenius.com wrote:
>> What do people think? 
> 
> I think "why bother". Clearly what we have is chaotic, but any system 
> you can think of will become chaotic sooner or later with people 
> (ab)using it to their heart's content, so what's the big deal.

+1

If you're not sure what something comes under it's easy enough to look 
it up, and in most cases presets know about it anyway.

Personally I think these categorizations have no value anyway, and if I 
were designing it from scratch, I'd have just a type for each item and 
properties which are the tags. But I'm not, and like the many proposals 
that surface on this list to "rearrange everything", it may be a bit 
neater but it is too much of an upheaval for the minimal gain.

It's not as if these are any more than internal identifiers.

David