I agree with Greg. Many people still think it is possible to get worldwide consensus on tagging. This will never happen as long as the tags are so subjective. Check out the thread on the definitions of cafe/restaurant/fast_food for a wonderful case of what happens if the input side rules the project. You have heard of ROM? Ever heard of WOM? A large part of the IT budget of large companies is spent on "understanding" the data they already have. Missing or incorrect documentation, misuse of fields (overloading), no data quality control... I spend my life trying to save them money. Unfortunately every day they are still creating more of tomorrow's "legacy."
Unless someone wants to declare OSM to be a "big data" project (store everything you have, just in case it's useful later) and get IBM Watson to find your nearest place to buy a burger. Colin On 2014-12-11 08:34, Martin Vonwald wrote: > 2014-12-11 0:52 GMT+01:00 Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com>: > >> The main reason is that while designign complicated tagging seems to be >> what people do, tagging designs should be done from the point of view of >> those writing code to consume the database and do something useful. > > 100% incorrect. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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