On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 2:17 PM, André Pirard <[email protected]> wrote: > > And you make me discover a very fundamental rule I didn't notice after 36 > readings: that the tokens can be literal strings. And I wonder how software > supposed to tell whether it's open can understand strings. >
Software can't. The dirty little secret of OSM tagging is that a huge fraction of the tags have insufficient semantic clarity or consistency to be processed or rendered. If it's unclear on the wiki, and not simple enough that people get it right 80% of the time, it won't ever be machine processed.
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