[OSM-talk] Proposed Amenity Reorganization

Ken Guest ken at linux.ie
Wed Jun 24 11:13:47 BST 2009


A better exercise, I think, would be to create an A4 sized "cheatsheet" of
common POIs and how they should generally be tagged - something that people
can print out and laminate to either use themselves or distribute at mapping
parties that could be used as an aid for when one is out mapping and wants
to tag-as-you-go.

I'm not sure but I think someone else may have suggested this previously.

k.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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