On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Tobias Knerr <[email protected]> wrote: > PAA schrieb: >> There are more than 1500 misspellings of the tag in the european >> database right now. > > Which you can fix within a few minutes if you are sure that they aren't > intended.
It's possible that somebody could do that in a few minutes, but i certainly couldn't with my current knowledge of the OSM ecosystem. It seems like there's a pretty substantial knowledge gap between the OSM "pros" and the average OSM contributor. >> It doesn't affect me personally, but i think the >> cumulative savings in time for all mappers over the rest of OSM's >> lifetime could be substantial. > > If that's really a problem for anyone else, everyone will be using your > super-efficient editing tool. Most likely you'll find out that many > people are using templates, autocompletion or simply copy existing tags > anyway and don't care about manual typing at all. Others probably prefer > human-readable tagging. I think you misunderstood me: this isn't a problem for me, anymore than it is a problem for "everyone". It would be more efficient for servers, clients, and humans to use a shorter tag for something as universal and common as highway. The cumulative resource savings in the future far outweigh any transitional, temporary inconvenience. Still... >> It's definitely not something to be done with all tags, but i don't >> think you made a very good case why it's ridiculous for this one tag >> that is both prone to misspelling and in greater use than all others. > > (I replied quickly this morning before leaving for work and forgot to write > my main argument, should never reply in a hurry) > With two synonymous tags you can get inconsistent tagging, like a way tagged > highway=primary > h=secondary Now *that* is a good argument. Well, i had thought it was a win-win kind of proposal, but i guess it's not entirely so. I'll keep looking for other ways to improve efficiency. Cheers, P _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
