> On May 29, 2015, at 11:02 AM, pmailkeey . <pmailk...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > And that ties in nicely with my thoughts of removing the words and generating > tags and values by symbols !
Mapping by emoji! Just put a hot dog symbol in the hot-dog stand! ^_^ For getting data into the database from novice mappers - that might not be a bad idea - however the text description that would invariably be needed to explain the icons would lead to the same thing. And as long as there are very rigid definitions in the tags - then the icons won't fit the ground truth except in the countries of the people who created the tags. Which is true currently - as I find examples that are completely untaggable in the current system because of the insistence on a single or primary tag. Case in point: Video rental shops in Japan also rent music CDs and video games (and sometimes books/manga too). They also are a bookstore. And stationary and collectables shop. This "media, goods, and rental" shop (as they say on the outside) is a very common store type - there are many *chains* that offer this combination, equating to several thousand stores - but currently there is absolutely no tagging value to convey this properly. It is not primarily a rental shop with a few magazines, nor a stationary shop with a few books or DVDs. It is its own beast. Tsutaya, Geo, FamilyBook, and others are all big chains that do this. It is simply not a combination that is common in other parts of the world (AFAIK). And without some more hierarchy to handle new and multiple values, it will be impossible to tag, even with emoji. Javbw _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
