> I can say from my experience of teaching IT concepts to very smart > people (i.e. until recently I was an IT support manager at a large > uni) that this namespacing stuff is a step too far for most people.
I can say from my experience that, as one of those sort of people, trying to learn all about XML namespaces really makes my head hurt. So I can agree with that sentiment. However, I can also say that I can readily understand that the tags name and name_1 are different but equally valid for their use, and by extension I could easily accept that tag names length and climbing:length are different but valid for their own uses too. I don't have to understand namespaces in order to follow the instructions "tag climbing lengths with climbing:length, because that's the accepted convention". Heck, I'm fairly smart, but OSM has a big learning curve to really understand it, so most everything I do is based on looking for the existing accepted convention. I think that people don't need to understand namespaces to be able to use a proscribed tag with a colon in it, if it is presented as just another tag. Of course, climbing_length would work just as well, by this measure. - Alan _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
