On 1 March 2011 20:51, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > Markus Lindholm wrote: >> If this tag designation is about formal status in the UK > > It isn't. It's about formal status, full stop. You could just as easily use > it to record that a European waterway is UNECE Class Vb.
Well, the wiki certainly says that it's about England & Wales. But even if it were about formal designation worldwide, isn't there a risk with value collisions, e.g. designation=xyz might mean one thing in England but a slightly different thing in Australia. A data consumer would also have to take into consideration where an object is located before it can make a interpretation about the meaning of the tag. /Markus _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
