[OSM-talk] sports=billiard and sports=snooker ?

[Shaun McDonald]

On 21 Sep 2009, at 16:46, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

> 2009/9/21 Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>:
>> The documentation comes after some significant usage of the tag.  
>> There is no
>> need to spend time documenting everything straight away.
>
> yes, and if different approaches for the same thing arise, we just
> a) use both
> b) define different meaning for one or both of them
>
> (see landuse=forest, natural=forest, landuse=wood, natural=wood).

Speak to someone from the forestry commision or similar and they'll  
tell you difference between all of the above.

>
> Actually it is not a must to document, but I wouldn't discourage
> people who want to do it: it helps not creating ambiguities which are
> hard to get rid off, as the OSM-history has proven.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be documented. What I don't like seeing is  
people proposing lots of things that no one has started to tag. It's  
better to have a few ways to tag something and then decide which is  
the best method after you have tried a few.

Shaun

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