On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:46:09 +0100, Guenther Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > because... > > 1. ... every application trying to use the data has to deal with several > taggings for the same thing. that's an unnecessary waste of resources. > a script running on the database can minimize this waste, and furthermore, > can > fix typos in tags, which are also found all over the database. > > 2. ... it is easier for new mappers to have one documented tag for one > feature, instead of having to choose...
I completely agree. There is no benefit in this case for us to have two or more tags that describe exactly the same thing *. Moreover, nobody has expressed a good argument for not running bots that correct small mistakes when there has been a general agreement that one tag is preferable over another. Just imagine the great, unusable grey goo that would result if OSM offers a database with catholic, Catholic, cahtolic, etc. because somebody thinks it's a bad idea to run a bot on it. Can we please: 1. put this silly argument to rest, 2. agree on the tag used by JOSM, 3. document it on the wiki, 4. add this case to a general "typos" bot that is run on a regular basis, 5. get back to something useful. Regards, Tom * We might want to localise tag names into the ~6000 spoken languages in the world. Maybe Latin and ancient Greek too! But we'll leave that for the future when somebody wants to write the rendering stylesheet. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
