On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:20:35PM +0100, Claudius Henrichs wrote: > I couldn't be happier to have the "Benefits of namespaces" discussion > happening right now on this ML. > > I am about to finalize a tagging proposal for a new sub-tag. I am wondering > about the pros and cons of the traditional "OSM tag chain" (foo=bar + > bar=baz) versus "Laymans namespacing" (foo=bar + bar:type=baz). I've laid > out what I found on the forum and would be curious to learn what your > recommendation be.
the OSM tag chain should be imho used only for very common things because each member of the chain will turn up as a "top level" tag in the database and taginfo. If used extensively for attributes I would consider it polution of the database. It is also much less flexible as you can specify only one attribute at a time. Richard _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
