2009/1/16 Jochen Topf <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 03:13:37PM +0100, Simone Cortesi wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Jochen Topf <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Please, please, do not use this convention. If there is no name or no >> > ref thats enough to know that something might be missing. If one uses >> > 'fixme' and the next one uses 'tbd' and the next 'missig' and the next >> > one uses 'unknown' as "special values", the map will be full of strange >> > names and nobody will be able to find anything! >> >> Still I do not understand why one has to use name=FIXME in the first >> place. Just not adding a key/vaule is not enough?
The only thing I can think of (note I am not adding such tag values) is that it is really easy later to query a database for ways which should have a name, but need a survey to establish that, since not all ways need to have a name. So, it seems, no, it isn't enough to have a key missing, since that would blend into the background of ways which don't need a name or tag. As I said, I *don't* use such values for tags, but I can only assume what people think. I am trying to highlight such wrong tagging practices in automated checkers and validators in a constructive way by locating them, this way helping to fix the problem. > That is just what I was saying. Don't use anything like this. If you > want to add a note use the "fixme" or "note" key. Something like > fixme=please add name > or > note=missing name > would be better. But thats really only needed for more complex cases like: > name=FoObaR > fixme=Check spelling of name I agree this would be better. -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
