On 06/12/09 21:34, Lars Francke wrote:
> 1) What should I do with "namespaced tags". I mean all tags with
> colons in them to separate parts of the key. Examples are the tiger
> tags (tiger:tlid, ...), the Karlsruhe schema for addresses (addr:),
> name tags (name:de) or the seamark tags used by OpenSeaMap. The only
> thing I'm doing at the moment is to point from one tag to all its
> 'child' or 'parent' tags. So "addr" has a link to "addr:city",
> "addr:street" and so on and "addr:city" has a link to "addr". Does
> anyone have more ideas about what to do with this information? Any
> kind of analysis or data you'd be interested in just let me know.


That's a good idea. Can I just add about swapping the names around. Most
'namespaced tags' are standardized, but sometimes people put them in
other orders. e.g. bicycle:oneway and oneway:bicycle. There should be a
link from one to the other.

Rory

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