Your translation is a good and very needed start in my opinion. But to prevent frustration just don't look at the tags for a while and maybe pray a little. Maybe people adjust and use the tag in a more consistent way. Or they don't. Only time will tell.
Martin 2012/10/23 Ronnie Soak <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I've recently stumbled upon some confusing usages of the key > designation=* in my area, so I tried to find out what it really means > and how it is used correctly. > > I haven't succeeded. > > Of course there is the wiki page [1] at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation > which explains that it is used for the local classification of roads in the > UK. > But on the same page the usage as a descriptive tag for nature > reserves is also documented. > > Looking at taginfo [2] seems to harden the case for road > classification, but also shows 'shed' in 5th rank. > But I was curious about how this is actually used outside of the UK. > > So I did a OverPass-Api query for 500 ways on designation=* with a > bounding box of Germany [3] > and fed that through a 'grep designation' which gave me a horrifying list [4]. > > Seems like I can delete my fresh wiki page translation [5] and replace > it with a 'just tag anything you want with it'. > Now this might be unfair, as OverPass sorts by way ID which might be a > bad choice for a random sample. But I actually didn't find even one > correct example of usage in there. > > I'm so baffled by this, I don't even have a decent question to ask. > > Where to start? Modify the wiki according to usage? To what usage? > Modify the tags? All of them? To what? > (I said 'decent'. Not that I don't have questions ...) > > Or just slowly walk away from that topic? > > > Regards, > Chaos > > > > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation > [2] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/designation#values > [3] > http://overpass.osm.rambler.ru/cgi/interpreter?data=%5Bout:json%5D;way%5Bdesignation%5D%2846%2E845703125%2C5%2E185546875%2C55%2E634765625%2C15%2E46875%29%3Bout%20500%3B > [4] http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=ymViH17J > [5] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Key:designation > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
