2010/11/3 Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de>: > M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> The mapfeatures declare that url should not be used and website should >> be used instead. Is this a common agreement? I find url used 3,5 times >> more often (260 000) then website (66 800) in the database. > > "website" is intended for "the official website for a feature". > > "url" was never as clearly defined and is therefore used for lots of > different stuff, including Wikipedia links, photographs and internal > (= intended for other mappers) documentation. > > Therefore, "website" does *not* replace "url" - it should only replace > "url" for those cases where the URL is the official website for the > tagged feature. > Similarly, the "wikipedia" key should partially replace "url", for those > cases where the URL is a Wikipedia link, and "image" should be used for > URLs of images.
If there is consensus for this interpretation, the mapfeatures are wrong IMHO. They depict url as deprecated (stroked through). Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
