On 21.01.2015 09:06, Никита wrote: > If you trying to parse name=school *with any regex *to map it as > amenity=school* *you are wrong. OSM is not for you. > If you trying to parse currency=bitcoin;coin for coin, then stop it > right now. You have no idea how regexes or tags in osm work.
While I think, you should really calm down a bit and not sound so aggressive, I have to agree with you. The purpose of structuring data is not having to use a complicated, but a simple parser. Just because one can use a regular expression to grep out a certain meaning doesn't mean it's a good thing to do and will always work. The only downside of currency:X=yes, currency:Y=yes to currency=X;Y is that it involves more typing. In fact, nobody forces us to only use yes and no as a value. The Healthcare 2.0 proposal uses partial, main, yes and no. This can easily applied to a lot of values where it makes sense and it gives the flexibility to distinguish between equal and distinguished importance . Using semicolon-lists for values was always considered a crutch until a better tagging-scheme comes along. We all know that the only real solution would be a native data type for arrays in the database but as long as this isn't happening, we have to work around. But please let's not drag this down to a personal level and start insulting each other, this isn't going to accomplish anything but anger. - Nadjita _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
