On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 09:12, Volker Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Il ven 24 gen 2020, 11:51 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging > <[email protected]> ha scritto: >> One of topics often appearing is mismatch between meaning of key >> and key text. >> ... >> It is created at >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mismatching_key_names >> but page name is horrible. Ideas for a better one is welcome. >> >> Also, I only started it - help in expanding and improving it >> is highly welcomed. > > These are no mismatches. > Keys and values are in principle arbitrary sequences of alphanumeric > characters. By convention we try to make them mnemonic by using strings that > somehow help us remember the meaning of the string. By convention we use > British English words for keys and values, plus numbers, mainly for values. > > This explanation needs to be placed prominently on the new page, to avoid any > doubt.
Please no. That wiki page is a much better explanation than this "it's only symbols". Keys and values are ways for us as human editors to communicate with each other. Those are commonly called "words" - well, at least in Canadian English, I don't know about British English. It is definitely worth explaining why some words as OSM editors use them are different from words as the rest of the world (or a subset of the world) might use them. --Jarek _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
