On 1/06/2015 6:28 AM, Daniel Koć wrote:
W dniu 31.05.2015 20:07, Marc Gemis napisał(a):
I think good presets in the editors are much more important than any
proposal to move something from one top level tag to another. Only in
case there is a problem to extend the schema (e.g. drinking water and
water), it is worthwhile to discuss a change.
+1 - of course, for everyday mapping I use presets and I love them!
But lack of a clear system is also common, everyday fact of life for
me too. Many things are not-that-typical,
similar-but-not-really-the-same (for example in my city many people
had a problem to recognize such a simple thing as what is supermarket,
mall or department store!) or simply not-in-presets. One has to choose
blindly between "railway halt" and "railway station", because no safe,
more general type is available - nor easy to create (like "railway +
stop place") or whether some POI is shop or rather craft, just because
there are "compulsive" "top-level" tags (while it's less important
than the subject itself).
I would like to have common presets system synchronized between
editors, Wiki pages and default rendering somehow, at least. But that
would be still just a quick fix for today, while I think we'll grow
outside the western countries (big scale problem) and deeper into
micromapping (small scale problem) in a few years and we're not really
prepared for it.
In part the problem comes from the lack of organisation of keys.
Some are by form (e.g. building=) some by function (e.g. shop=) ..
others are mixed (e.g. amenity=).
The mixed ones in particular are hard to mentally recall, organise.
Reorganising is difficult .. historical inertia, personal bias and
reluctance to learn a new system lend bias against it.
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The other problem is some mappers are looking at things to do locally as
they think they have added all the available OSM features and now want
new ones.
Reception_desk and power_sockets spring to mind ;-)
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The other 'problem' to add to micromapping and growth out side 'western'
countries is 'indoor/3D' mapping.
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