On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Cartinus wrote:
> Almost nobody would accept it if we suddenly had to use railway:name=,
> highway:name=, etc. on all ways just because there are some places where
> people want to tag the street and the the tramway on the same way object.
>
> What you'd need is a solution that works for all tags, not a few tags with
> namespace parts and all the rest without.
Maybe the editors just need a new way of presenting the namespacing. This
is basically no more than a tree architecture and makes a lot of sense to
me. e.g. (using semi-fictional tags):
.
|-- highway
| |-- type = residential
| |-- name = Foo Street
| `-- ref = B1234
|-- cycleway
| `-- ref = 5
`-- railway
|-- type = tram
`-- ref = 78
I think that namespacing only raises the barrier to entry if it is
inconsistent and isn't presented by the editors in a good way.
- Steve
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