Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-07-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/7/1 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: Not that I'm advocating this at all, and not that english names can't be used in the same manner for the purposes of translations, but there is several ways you could do this and have numbers that didn't conflict, for example you could use UUIDs,

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-07-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 July 2010 18:23, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: nobody will ever need more than 640 kB of RAM ;-) I assume you are talking about how Yahoo generates WOEs, but I'd love to see anyone that can exceed the capacity of UUIDs :) sure, there could be ways, but actually I don't

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-07-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/7/1 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: we already do this with presets, and I don't like the concept either ;-), I'm using the english JOSM version because of this. Part of the problem in this thread derives exactly from this (soccer vs football). You disagree with the translation

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-07-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 July 2010 19:08, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: no, I don't generally disagree with the translations, the thing is: (almost) every tag (at least of the ones in the presets) is documented in the wiki in English, many of these definitions are not translated into other

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-07-01 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/7/1 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 1 July 2010 19:08, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: no, I don't generally disagree with the translations, the thing is: (almost) every tag (at least of the ones in the presets) is documented in the wiki in English, many of

Re: [Tagging] indirect id's Re: football or soccer ?

2010-07-01 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/7/1 Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:08 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: In fact, the technique of having the user select from a list of words, but actually storing the value as an arbitrary ID (generally numeric), is the recommended technique in

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-07-01 Thread John Smith
On 2 July 2010 02:01, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Most of our tags are not disputed. If it's a safe assumption that most tags are not disputed, do we turn disputed tags into numbers? ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] [education] tag insttitute

2010-07-01 Thread pavithran
On 15 June 2010 07:09, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com In fact I'd be tempted to call them a specialised college's and sub-tag from there. In India colleges are mostly (99 %) bound by academic regulation from higher education boards/ universities . Guessing it would be the same elsewhere .

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-07-01 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/1 Anthony o...@inbox.org: The benefit is precisely the removal of the thing you find cool. People won't think they understand a key/value simply because they see the name of the tag. I see your

Re: [Tagging] Motorcycle repair

2010-07-01 Thread John Smith
On 2 July 2010 02:33, pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com wrote: If there is an idea of combining motorcycle and car tags then amenity=bicycle_parking can be changed ? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbicycle_parking Or are they better kept separate ? I'm so tempted to say this

Re: [Tagging] Is power=generator like landuse=* or building=yes?

2010-07-01 Thread Cartinus
On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:52:58 Phil! Gold wrote: When people use power=generator, which is more common: tagging just the building where the generator is housed, or tagging the entire facility (including coal pile, gas tanks, offices, rail yard, etc.)? Whichever one you do, how do you mark

Re: [Tagging] [education] tag insttitute

2010-07-01 Thread Liz
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, pavithran wrote: On 15 June 2010 07:09, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com In fact I'd be tempted to call them a specialised college's and sub-tag from there. In India colleges are mostly (99 %) bound by academic regulation from higher education boards/

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-07-01 Thread Stephen Hope
On 1 July 2010 22:08, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: In fact, the technique of having the user select from a list of words, but actually storing the value as an arbitrary ID (generally numeric), is the recommended technique in database design.  It is called normalizing the