[OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Thu Sep 10 10:03:41 BST 2009


On 10/09/2009 10:02, David Earl wrote:
> On 10/09/2009 09:44, Roy Wallace wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:02 PM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/09/2009 01:11, Roy Wallace wrote:
>>>> But I would support any proposal that merges these and includes
>>>> complementary tags to explicitly specify differences as necessary.
>>> Does it really matter? Just treat them as synonyms.
>> Having two different ways to tag a particular entity is not the best
>> solution when building a database, IMHO.
> 
> Indeed, but when we have an anarchic rather than specified tagging 
> system, this is the least of our problems!

Sorry, I should also have said ... there are two tags because someone 
cared enough about the difference to want to differentiate them. I'm 
surprised whoever that was hasn't spoken up.

David





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