Now you're insulting the one person who was supporting you? Please STOP this thread everyone. Please.
2015-01-21 8:55 GMT+00:00 Никита <acr...@gmail.com>: >> Just because one can use a regular expression to grep out a certain >> meaning doesn't mean it's a good thing to do and will always work > We easily revert these edits in Russia. Quite often user who want to show > their regex fu will fail so hard to guess actual properly of the real world. > > We care about data we map. > We document it instead of guessing by taginfo. > We use real tags instead of regexes for users. > > We like our newbies. We don't want to insist to use f$#$g perl regexes > simply to map things around them. > > I cannot stop you from using regex. But if I find your changsets erroneous I > will revert them. > >> In fact, nobody forces us to only use yes and no as a value. > Wrong. It not forces you anything. You can still tag currency:X=fixme. > >> The Healthcare 2.0 proposal uses partial, main, yes and no. This can >> easily applied to a lot of values where it makes sense and it gives the >> flexibility to distinguish between equal and distinguished importance . > There way more tagging schemes than single Healthcare 2.0. Yes there > differences, so what? > >> Using semicolon-lists for values was always considered a crutch until a >> better tagging-scheme comes along. > You forgot to say "among English speaking users who fail to use JOSM search > funtion or overpass or taginfo or wiki documentation". I don't care about > them. > >> We all know that the only real solution would be a native data type for >> arrays in the database but as long as this isn't happening, we have to work >> around. > And obviously you choose the worst way to do this. With complicating things > with REGEX. > > > 2015-01-21 11:42 GMT+03:00 Nadjita <tagg...@mark.reidel.info>: >> >> On 21.01.2015 09:06, Никита wrote: >> >> > If you trying to parse name=school *with any regex *to map it as >> > amenity=school* *you are wrong. OSM is not for you. >> > If you trying to parse currency=bitcoin;coin for coin, then stop it >> > right now. You have no idea how regexes or tags in osm work. >> >> While I think, you should really calm down a bit and not sound so >> aggressive, I have to agree with you. The purpose of structuring data is >> not having to use a complicated, but a simple parser. Just because one >> can use a regular expression to grep out a certain meaning doesn't mean >> it's a good thing to do and will always work. >> The only downside of currency:X=yes, currency:Y=yes to currency=X;Y is >> that it involves more typing. In fact, nobody forces us to only use yes >> and no as a value. The Healthcare 2.0 proposal uses partial, main, yes >> and no. This can easily applied to a lot of values where it makes sense >> and it gives the flexibility to distinguish between equal and >> distinguished importance . >> Using semicolon-lists for values was always considered a crutch until a >> better tagging-scheme comes along. >> We all know that the only real solution would be a native data type for >> arrays in the database but as long as this isn't happening, we have to >> work around. >> But please let's not drag this down to a personal level and start >> insulting each other, this isn't going to accomplish anything but anger. >> >> - Nadjita >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
