2009/2/23 Yann Coupin <[email protected]>: > > Le 23 févr. 09 à 11:26, Dave Stubbs a écrit : > >> So my question is this: given that there /are/ two tags in use, why go >> to all the effort to change it? Document both and be done with it. > > And this is helping the data not to turn into a pile of grey goo, how ? This > is exactly what's damaging the database's content value. Because it makes > the data in it unusable. Next thing you know, someone in Germany will tag > doctors office "hartz" and someone in France "docteur", those tags' use will > spread and the data will be a mess. > > So unless your goal in life is to enter as much data as possible and never, > ever, do something useful with it: DON'T DUPLICATE TAGS !!! >
You obviously missed the emphasis, and hey, the entire sentence: "given that there /are/ two tags in use". That doesn't mean, "hey guys, let's duplicate as many tags as possible"; it means that duplicate tags already exist. Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
