Re: [Tagging] url vs. website
Am 04.11.2010 06:17, schrieb Paul Johnson: On 11/03/2010 01:39 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: The mapfeatures declare that url should not be used and website should be used instead. Is this a common agreement? I find url used 3,5 times more often (260 000) then website (66 800) in the database. I don't think it's a common agreement by any means, URL is more universal and includes websites; Well, url is a bit too generic IMHO and comes from the days when it was completely unclear how urls and alike will be tagged by our mappers. In common use today is: website= image= wikipedia= email= (... and url=) Don't know if that qualifies as url being deprecated though ;-) For some time there was quite a confusion between url and website, and people used url where website really would fit better as it is more specific both for mappers and data users alike. That doesn't mean you shouldn't use url at all, but if you tag the website for a specific object, you should use website rather than url. Think of use url if you know what you are doing, website probably better suits what you want to tag :-) websites excludes many types of URLs. I've not seen a lot else used than the above mentioned so far ... Regards, ULFL ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
Re: [Tagging] url vs. website
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: The mapfeatures declare that url should not be used and website should be used instead. Is this a common agreement? I find url used 3,5 times more often (260 000) then website (66 800) in the database. website is intended for the official website for a feature. url was never as clearly defined and is therefore used for lots of different stuff, including Wikipedia links, photographs and internal (= intended for other mappers) documentation. Therefore, website does *not* replace url - it should only replace url for those cases where the URL is the official website for the tagged feature. Similarly, the wikipedia key should partially replace url, for those cases where the URL is a Wikipedia link, and image should be used for URLs of images. Tobias Knerr ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
Re: [Tagging] url vs. website
On Miércoles 03 Noviembre 2010 19:14:45 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer escribió: 2010/11/3 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de: M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: The mapfeatures declare that url should not be used and website should be used instead. Is this a common agreement? I find url used 3,5 times more often (260 000) then website (66 800) in the database. website is intended for the official website for a feature. url was never as clearly defined and is therefore used for lots of different stuff, including Wikipedia links, photographs and internal (= intended for other mappers) documentation. Therefore, website does *not* replace url - it should only replace url for those cases where the URL is the official website for the tagged feature. Similarly, the wikipedia key should partially replace url, for those cases where the URL is a Wikipedia link, and image should be used for URLs of images. If there is consensus for this interpretation, the mapfeatures are wrong IMHO. They depict url as deprecated (stroked through). Cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging Tobias's interpretation sounds very good to me Noel er Envite signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
Re: [Tagging] url vs. website
On 11/03/2010 01:39 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: The mapfeatures declare that url should not be used and website should be used instead. Is this a common agreement? I find url used 3,5 times more often (260 000) then website (66 800) in the database. I don't think it's a common agreement by any means, URL is more universal and includes websites; websites excludes many types of URLs. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
