At least in my own irc chat room, the tagging advice will be consistant :-)
But seriously, it's actually easier to emalgimate 10(or so) external dataset schemas into a cohesive Universal Schema. .... then after, I make the SchemaTroll2osm.csv file available where only osm tags need to be changed. And it's just the last part which has fierce debate. cheers, sam On 10/24/10, Tobias Knerr <[email protected]> wrote: > Sam Vekemans wrote: >> I'm happy to report that we now have a dedicated IRC chat room, for >> the specific topic of 'tagging map features'. > > You already get very different tagging advice depending on whether you > ask on, say, tagging, talk-de, the forum, or the wiki. So I question > whether it's wise to create another mostly isolated group of people who > will start to breed their own, incompatible interpretations of common tags. > > Why do we need this? If it's a easy question, then it can quickly be > answered on the regular IRC rooms - shouldn't bee too much of a burden. > If it's one of the tagging issues that need extended discussion, that > discussion should take place where others can participate asynchronously > and where the results are more permanently available. > > Tobias Knerr > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
