On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Ian Sergeant <[email protected]> wrote: > > Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote on 30/08/2011 11:14:32 AM: > >> The same mechanism is used for Yahoo, Bing etc coverage. Yes, it's >> debatable whether meta-objects should be stored in the OSM database, >> but that debate would also extend to meta-tags (note=*, fixme=*)
That's pretty different, or at least potentially so. A note=* or fixme=* tag, at least in the way I've used them and seen them used, is just a human-readable rather than machine-readable description of something in the real world. > When I encounter these "meta" ways/nodes with a name tag, I always change it > to a note tag. It is more aligned with a annotation than with a named > object. +1. While I'd rather see these objects go away altogether, I think a tag of "name=Melbourne;Geelong;South-Central NSW Area;Central Victoria Area" on a closed way implies that this closed way represents an area called "Melbourne;Geelong;South-Central NSW Area;Central Victoria Area". I'm not sure boundary=* is appropriate either, as this is not a political or governmental or pseudo-governmental division, though maybe I'm just not aware of how broadly that tag is used. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
