On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Mike N. wrote: > I recently set out to do an all-inclusive map of a section of town. > Perhaps I'm unfortunate enough to live in a city of lawyers, but it seems > that a large entire section of town consists of law offices. I can't > believe I'm not the first person to want to tag a law office as a shop > category (I may have completely missed an existing tag). The process of > creating a new tag is laborious: > Search the wiki for approved tags that don't appear in presets > Search the wiki for a proposed tag to be able to at least choose a > more common tag > Search TagWatch - I didn't play with this for long, but the links from > the wiki to TagWatch don't make it easy to query a list of tags in use for > key shop for example.
I used shop=solicitor because I had heaps of stuff to put on the map and no time to do any exhaustive search. Any tag I found on the wiki later I adjusted to a generally used one. I'm quite happy to change my tag to shop=lawyer. You have described an interesting example of the difficulties of wishing to be a conformist on OSM and I have described the example of how easy it is to be an anarchist. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
