On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Daniel Tremblay <[email protected]> wrote: > I've suggested a shoulder=yes/no tag. Somebody came out with a complex > structure (probably valid) for shoulders. Does it really have to be that > complicated? I don't know. You, speclists, know better than me. > > What are the objective of the openstreetmap project? Identify everthing on > earth? Or provide a complete free map of the world?
Hi Daniel, thanks for your input. Creating a workable folksonomy with the right balance between expressiveness and simplicity is an incredibly difficult task. You may only be interested in "shoulder/no shoulder", but OSM has to serve a lot of different needs. That's where the complexity comes from. > Maybe I don't get it right... But don't kill the project with unfollowable > and incomprehensive rules / tags. Right. But what you really mean is "don't scare off newbies with too much complexity". We're aware of that, and that's why there are a number of efforts to produce simpler editors which hide some of these details. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
