2010/6/30 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>: > 2010/6/30 Zeke Farwell <[email protected]>: >> Wow…. after following the back and forth on this thread I'm really starting >> to understand the argument for numeric tagging schemes >> sport=305 (american football) >> sport=246 (association football, football, soccer, calcio, etc…) >> sport=220 (rugby) >> Is anyone going to get insulted that the tag for football/soccer/whatever is >> 246? No, because it's not a word. Yes, this is less intuitive for us >> native english speakers, but there is no room for ambiguity. I'm not >> suggestion we should switch everything to numeric values (would never happen >> anyway). However, this argument that non-native english speakers have been >> making for a while is making more and more sense to me. > > > nice idea ;-), I am curious how error proof this system could be (have > a look at all the typos in our data) and how someone will invent a new > tag and "simply use it" (like generally suggested). Also I'd consider > not only tagging the value as number but the key as well (e.g. someone > playing chess might be insulted that chess is considered "sport"). A > simple list in the wiki would be sufficient ;-) > 123=246 > and if you invent a new key, simply raise the number. > e.g. 43542=4 > This sounds like real fun, even though autocompletion might turn out > to be less useful then...
Well, if we really wanted to do that, it would suffice to have meta-tags. Each tag would have an UID, and applications could associate UIDs to human-readable strings, maybe even with localization. Not that I advocate this. > cheers, > Martin Regards, Simone _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
