If you find a way to do it, by all means, share, since the lane tagging issue is directly affected.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 05:52 Peter Elderson <pelder...@gmail.com> wrote: > Providing a more consistent while still backwards compatible tagging > scheme for a feature is not the end of freedom. It just helps to answer the > all-time question: how is this done? with an answer that makes more sense. > Taggers will adopt it because it makes sense. > > > > Op do 7 jun. 2018 12:33 schreef Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de>: > >> On Thursday 07 June 2018, Selfish Seahorse wrote: >> > > There are tons of established tags in OSM where the key makes no >> > > sense at all. Don't get me started on 'waterway' for example. But >> > > that is how OSM works. Get over it, accept that people have made >> > > bad choices of keys when choosing tags and concentrate on >> > > encouraging and helping people to choose suitable keys when newly >> > > creating tags (in a productive way of course, not just by rejecting >> > > any idea as bad). >> > >> > And what's wrong with getting rid of these bad choices? >> >> Nothing except it would mean the end of free form tagging and it would >> require creating some framework of tagging authorities in OSM who >> decide on what is good and bad or in short: The end of OSM as an >> egalitarian global community. >> >> Once more my suggestion to Martin and others who repeat the same matra >> we have heard for years over and over again: Accept that there are >> thousands of mappers who do not care about key hygiene like you do or >> have the sense of order you have. That is a simple fact of life in a >> diverse global community like OSM. >> >> For me this always sounds a bit like someone who wants to 'fix the >> English language' by eliminating irregular verbs and other exceptions >> so you can say "I goed to the pub yesterday and haved a beer". Yes, in >> principle you can do that and you can argue this might make it easier >> for people to learn the language but it just would not be English any >> more. >> >> Your brave new world with an intelligent design of orthogonal keys >> would - apart from being an illusion (Kurt Gödel is greeting) - just >> not be OSM any more. >> >> -- >> Christoph Hormann >> http://www.imagico.de/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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