[OSM-talk] "proprietary" keys and values, machine readable vs. humans

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Tue Jan 24 13:54:10 GMT 2012


Hi,

On 01/24/12 14:35, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> How would you improve / modify (say split) an object where you don't
> understand part of the tags applied to it?

I agree but would like to point out that this problem applies to 
properly documented tags as well - there are quite a few interesting 
proposals about tagging e.g. turn lanes at large intersections which 
would lead to these junctions being un-understandable for the average 
mapper. It is not sufficient to say "oh well the documentation is all 
here" ;)

> Imagine that this tendency grows stronger and a few imports later our
> db would have more crypted keys then "readable" ones. If osm is about
> open data, it should be really open, not only freely available but
> unusable because crypted.

Crypted is perhaps not the right word here because even if the tag says 
clearly what it is ("freds_internal_place_database_id=1736253") it might 
still be of little use for anyone who has no access to Fred's internal 
place database.

Bye
Frederik



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