On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Monday 11 Jan 2010 6:03:49 am Steve Bennett wrote: > > For example, in this case, imagine that lots of people are using > > amenity=vet or service=veterinarian or something, which never gets > > supported. That's wasted effort, and may prevent someone else tagging > > those vets properly. > > > > do not forget that there are a lot of sites rendering OSM data. What does > not > render in the official site may render in one of the local sites. I tag > things > that do not render in the official site but render in our own country > specific > site - or render differently in the country specific site. > > Yep. But that's still no reason to tag the same thing in different ways. If anything, it's a cause of the problem - we'd ideally like all tags everywhere unified under one scheme. Steve
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