Hi, On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:10:54PM +0200, Ben Laenen wrote: > * without making use of the namespaces like bicycle:oneway=*
This is slightly tangential to your question but I take exception to the way people use the term "namespace" over and over again in osm discussions. It seems that everyone believes "if it has a colon then it's a namespace". That is bollocks - "bicycle:oneway" is just a structured tag, or a tag with a colon in it, but it doesn't have a "namespace". Namespaces are separate universes of meaning. They are required where you have two identical names that mean something completely different dependent on the context. For example, if you were to use the tag "boundary" to denote administrative boundaries as well as the fact whether a highway has a hard shoulder or not (slightly daft example but the best I could think of right now) then you'd need a namespace: admin:boundary=national highway:boundary=grass because knowing something about the one sort of boundary doesn't get you anywhere with the second sort of boundary. What you're talking about with "oneway" is completely different because the "oneway" property is alway the same, with the same meaning, and you just want to apply it to different types of vehicles. I have no objection to people putting as many colons into their tags as they like but please don't talk of "namespaces" unless you really mean that "foo" in namespace A has absolutely nothing to do with "foo" in namespace B. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
