[OSM-talk] Proposed Amenity Reorganization

[Heiko Jacobs]

gregory at arenius.com schrieb:
> The amenity key is currently used for so many different things that it has
> no meaning.

Indeed. But that's no problem, because the key "amenity" don't
bear some information of an object.

You can waive "amenity" and you may only say "school=yes" without
loss of information.

Sometimes the key also has some worth for information to
distinguish between landuse=residential, highway=residential

but for amenity the value bears information, not the key, so
changing the keys isn't necessary.

 > It has become a catch all category for everything that
> doesn't have a place elsewhere.

Yes

 > I'm proposing breaking it up into more
> keys to help make things more organized.

Organization is only needed for Map Features and subpages,
so it is good enough to sort them in Map-Features in

> *Amenity
> *Death
> *Education
> *Entertainment
> *Financial
> *Government
> *Healthcare
> *Sustenance
> *Transportation
> *Waste

or something like this BEFORE sorting them alphabetically

> With their tags:
> 
> Amenity:
> *BBQ
> *Bench
...

... and if one value can't be allocated to one group
no "allocation war" is needed at mailing list ;-)
only put it double in both parts ;-)

> Hunting_stand can go in leisure.

Might be we are flexible enough to put some leisures
to amenity-section of Map Features and vice versa if it
makes sense, but changing the key isn't neccesary for my opinion

Heiko "Mueck" Jacobs