2011/3/2 Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]>: > M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> it might also help to use namespaces for the values, like >> "uk:public_bridleway" >> instead of "public_bridleway" > > So I presume you're planning to do that for other tags whose meaning varies > by country, like highway=uk:trunk, highway=de:motorway... > > OSM. For People Who Don't Quite Understand The Whole "Spatial" Thing In > Spatial Databases.
There is no doubt that an application can (given correct boundaries and massive preprocessing) determine in which country a road lies. My consideration was biased towards novice mappers and a consistent tagging scheme. The OSM kosmos of tags is already not easy to understand. If there was a preset like "uk" in front of this tag, e.g. German or Italian mappers would know that they don't have to care for these. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
