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

2009-03-30 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 05:46, 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. As i understand things, this has four huge benefits: -reduce data entry time when

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

2009-03-30 Thread Maarten Deen
Renaud MICHEL wrote: Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 05:46, 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. No it's not. It's called convenience. And once you start with

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

2009-03-30 Thread Maarten Deen
Chris Hill wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: Can we implement this tomorrow? When hell freezes over maybe. I meant day after tomorrow BTW. Maybe that clears it up a bit. Maarten ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

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

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Hill
Maarten Deen wrote: Renaud MICHEL wrote: Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 05:46, 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. No it's not. It's

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

2009-03-30 Thread 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

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

2009-03-30 Thread Gregory Williams
-Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of PAA Sent: 30 March 2009 14:01 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - h==highway Request for comments on creating the key:h

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

2009-03-30 Thread PAA
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: PAA schrieb: There are more than 1500 misspellings of the tag in the european database right now. Which you can fix within a few minutes if you are sure that they aren't intended. It's possible that somebody could do

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

2009-03-30 Thread Gregory Williams
[Snip] (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 Now *that* is a good argument. Well, i had

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

2009-03-29 Thread PAA
Request for comments on creating the key:h and making it synonymous with key:highway. As i understand things, this has four huge benefits: -reduce data entry time when editing OSM (e.g. 6/7ths less characters to type) -reduce data entry errors when editing OSM (current obvious errors from tagwatch