http://vimeo.com/14776099
A video from SOTM 2010 regarding this (sort of). And I think he makes a lot of good points. But maybe OSM don't need/isn't ready for something like this yet. I think that we need to get the licens stuff done first and then have a little bit of a cool down period before we make another major change again :). Best Regards Thod 2012/5/18 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > Hi, > I think you mean, you want to firmly state this as a principle. > Good! I actually this problem is worst for English speakers, because > we tend to find it hard to distinguish the name of the tag from its > meaning. Whereas Germans have absolutely no problem with the fact that > power=station is a sub-station, and power=sub_station is a > transformer...:) > > Steve > > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd like to propose a page that basically says that just because a tag is >> named X, that does not mean that something should be tagged as such only if >> it meets the real-world definition of X. The following examples can be >> included: >> *Many cities are tagged with place=town >> *Bikes and pedestrians are allowed on many highway=motorways >> *Many highway=trunks have been detrunked >> *highway=motorway_junction is used for all classifications of road >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
