[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - h==highway

[Renaud MICHEL]

Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 15:00, PAA a écrit :
> >> Request for comments on creating the key:h and making it synonymous
> >> with key:highway.
> >
> > That's just ridiculous.
> > Don't start duplicating tags with the same meaning.
>
> It's definitely not something to be done with all tags, but i don't
> think you made a very good case why it's ridiculous for this one tag
> that is both prone to misspelling and in greater use than all others.

(I replied quickly this morning before leaving for work and forgot to write 
my main argument, should never reply in a hurry)
With two synonymous tags you can get inconsistent tagging, like a way tagged
highway=primary
h=secondary

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Renaud Michel