On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, David Earl wrote:
> FWIW, I agree largely with the specific points on your wiki page, but I don't
> think it will happen because of the effort involved.
The wiki page wasn't really supposed to be a "this is how it needs to be"
solution - the hope was to get people talking about how stuff can be
improved without immediately dismissing anything that wasn't on the path
of least resistance. I can understand people being indifferent, but to be
met with sarcastic replies and put-downs instead of intelligent
conversation was pretty offputting.
Personally, I don't think the current tagging scheme is really
maintainable in the long run and that eventually there will need to be a
revolution, rather than evolution, in the way the data is represented, and
I worry about the future of project if people with new ideas are turned
away like this.
> There is also a camp which actively
> wants a node to be able to have more than one "type" in your terminology: we
> have (non-accidental) examples of place=town and building=town_hall for
> example, and (worse) place=town and amenity=post_box on the same node. I
> think that's ludicrous myself, and I'm sure you do too, but there are those
> who don't see it that way.
I agree that this sounds pretty crazy (although I'm rather of the opinion
that using a node instead of an area to identify a town for anything other
than a temporary measure is wrong). There are a lot of cases where
tagging objects as multiple things makes sense though - one example was
given on the wiki page with roads that become pistes in the winter, but
there are other such examples. There may even be merit in having a single
node tagged as both a posting box and a bus stop if it happens to be a
pole with both a posting box and a bus stop mounted on it.
- Steve
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