Am 01.12.2013 16:05, schrieb Egil Hjelmeland: > On 01. des. 2013 15:28, Peter Wendorff wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm not happy with contact:webcam, as the contact namespace IMHO serves >> a different purpose. >> contact:webcam could define whom to contact for questions regarding the >> webcam, or whom to contact BY webcam (as contact:phone is for how to >> contact e.g. a shop by phone). >> 1) I would change the order, as it's part of the webcam information, not >> part of the contact information, which would lead to webcam:* >> 2) I would use url instead of contact, if it should refer to where the >> webcams output can be seen, whcih would lead to webcam:url=* >> >> regards >> Peter >> > > Check https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:contact Yes, it's defined there, but that doesn't make it a good solution. It's used 180 times worldwide according to taginfo.
A check through first 50 values listed in taginfo [1] reveals: 1) all of them are website urls 2) most of the URLs are dead or wrong 3) the valid ones are mixed: some refer to the image, some to a website containing the image, some probably even to a fixed image (not updated), but I couldn't check that properly. 4) 80 values are from the same domain and refer to cameras of the same operator or organization: http://www1.eot.state.ma.us/cam_updated_images/*.jpg To conclude this I would say: The tag is not yet used much (especially due to (4)). It is not used in a unified way (see (3)) Therefore it's not useable in the current form. And as it doesn't fit semantically (it's not a URL to contact someone, but to see something), I don't see a big issue in "fixing" that by moving the tag to another key and to define it better. regards Peter [1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/contact%3Awebcam#values _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
