+1 to that.
On 2015-11-21 10:15, Dave Swarthout wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Gerd Petermann > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, of course diversity in tagging is a problem. For each data consumer >> and >> for each new mapper who tries to find out how to map something so that their >> preferred OSM-data-consuming-program is understanding the data. >> The problem exists and causes lots of work. > > I agree. I served as a librarian for a while in a small city library. At > first I rebelled against strict adherence to the cataloging schemes all > American libraries use, either the Library of Congress Subjects headings or > the older Dewey Decimal System. But the reasons for using controlled headings > is to prevent the sort of chaotic system that OSM has become. > > Now that I'm making my own maps and writing style rules it bugs me that I > have to make complex rules for all the "special tags" folks have put into use > over the years. Yikes, if there is no control at all, how will future > renderers and end users deal with the mess? It's fine to say don't map for > the renderer but let's be realistic, if none of this ever gets rendered it's > merely a database of numerical data. > > -- > > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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