Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > Micha Ruh wrote: >> 2010/1/16 Jean-Marc Liotier <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> I tried to >> replace "building=collapsed" with "earthquake:damage=collapsed_building" >> >> Please don't, it's useless, if not harmful. >> >> Why do you want to replace a simple, understandable, well established, >> broadly supported tag with something THAT complicated? >> >> It's ok, that another tag with the same meaning exists due to imports, >> but please DO NOT change well known and used tags with another one >> coming from an import. >> >> Especially not when the new tag is 35 chars long. Try editing that in >> potlatch. > > Take a look at tagstats : > > tag value uses node way > building collapsed 1,045 747 298 > earthquake:damage collapsed_building 1,473 1,465 8 > > We have two tags to describe the same thing. One is apparently more > widespread, more conformant to published standards and semantically > superior. > > What do others think ? Is tag length such an issue ? Doesnt > autocompletion solve the problem of tag length ? Is it desirable to > standardize ? Isn't it harmful to have two tags to describe the same > thing ? Is the value of harmonization inferior to the value of not > disturbing habits taken in the last few days ? Do we have past > experience or a policy for such things ?
If the idea of removing one of the two does not generate enthusiasm, would applying both tags everyhere be a better idea ? I don't believe so, but I would love to read other opinions... Actually, I'm surprised that no one else commented on this data quality issue. Not a big issue mind you, but I'm wondering anyway... Tagstat update : http://tagstat.hypercube.telascience.org/haiti/tagdetails.php?tag=building http://tagstat.hypercube.telascience.org/haiti/tagdetails.php?tag=earthquake:damage tag value uses building collapsed 5,214 earthquake:damage collapsed_building 3,107 building yes 7,743 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
