[OSM-talk] Proposed Amenity Reorganization

[Maarten Deen]

David Earl wrote:
> 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

A reason to do better categorizations would be to ease conversion to mobile
(or online) routeplanners, which already have some sort of categorization in
amenities. If you don't do that in OSM than you need a conversion for that.
Not saying that this is a compelling argument to do categories in OSM, but it
does have a value.

Personally I'm also more inclined to "why bother".

Regards,
Maarten