On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <[email protected]> wrote:
> > IMHO it would make editing and using data harder. It sounds like > something that should be improved by a better interface for editors > (grouping similar tags together). Exactly the problem. How can a computer tell that "dog" "hgv" and "mofa" should all be grouped? With a prefix, a consumer like a smartphone app can group all the restrictions,. Right now building automated tools against the data is fragile. For example the access for boats is spread across quite a number of tags. Even determining if a facility is applicable to a boat would require the consumer to keep up with all the various boat tags. Having a class hierarchy would enable generic actions for watercraft, even if the data consumer did not understand all the options (e.g. generic "watercraft" which might be a fishing boat, wave runner, rowboat). ---- I suppose there is one more option: a comprehensive list of which otherwise random tags ( "dog" "hgv" and "mofa") have access semantics. One could similarly group contacts (e.g. "phone" "website" "www" are all part of group "contacts"). And some list somewhere could define the twelve boat tags as having semantic meaning "access" plus semantic meaning "waterway".
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