On 15 February 2011 13:36, Laurence Penney <[email protected]> wrote: > "We have to"... Why? If there are things that are undoubtedly cafe-bars in > the world, with its main use depending whether you're a pensioner or a > hipster (Bristol has at least 10 such on Gloucester Road alone), why on > earth can they not be mapped? Even if Mapnik doesn't like semicolons, it > might still accept the string "cafe;bar" (and "bar;cafe"), or "cafe-bar". In > France there are tens of thousands of cafe-bar-tabacs - currently they're > mapped with a random value from that lot, which is crazy. >
Yes, fair enough. > What I hate most of all is the loss of information that occurs at the "have > to decide at some point" stage. The note field could save some of this > usefully, even if unstructured in form. > I'd appeal against using "note" for anything other than notes to fellow mappers, e.g. as a reminder to go back and add both cafe/bar uses when we work out the tagging. It's not much use when processing data. Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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