Am 17.11.2010 21:29, schrieb Elizabeth Dodd:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:11:18 +0100
Ulf Lamping<ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com> wrote:
It is accepting that semantically different things can reside under
the same key and that this doesn't cause any problems - except for
people like you that seem to think that a systematic approach is a
value in itself.
There are good reason for keeping semantically different things in
different groups.
1. the new mapper.
I remember trying to work out, with multiple wiki pages open, how
something was described, and then tagging it. It took forever, and then
the editors improved their presets and I remembered more of them.
Funnily, I (to some extend) was the one that improved the JOSM presets.
I
challenge you to explain to a new mapper why cafe is under amenity and
bakery is under shop, when they live in an area where bakeries include
cafes as their normal state.
You are asking why semantically different things (a place to eat&drink
vs. a place to go in, buy something and go out) are placed in different
keys? How does this correlate with your first sentence?
Fine example, as amenity was soooo crowded that we had to split the
shops away from it, creating another key that seems to cause confusion
here. This example is exactly the result of such an approach to
"semantically sort" things and it's possible negative side effects.
2. finding if someone has already described this item or not
When items in the real world haven't got an OSM tag, how do I find the
comprehensive list of features and search it?
So there are shops that sell building bricks. Outdoor display area,
with brick walls to show the bricks for sale, and a little office for
the salesperson. Shop? Amenity? Light industrial? Office?
If we don't tag with rational schemes we will have multiple duplicate
tags simply because people can't find the place where the tag was
placed in the schema.
You are probably mixing up rational and semantical grouping. I've simply
argued that a rational scheme (aka a scheme people can
understand/remember) isn't necessarily a scheme that groups along a
semantical boundary.
Regards, ULFL
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