Colin, I subscribe to every single word of your post... bravo!
Regards, Sergio On 2018-11-12 22:37, Colin Smale wrote: > At moments like this I like to invoke one of my heroes: Albert Einstein. One > famous saying attributed to him is: As simple as possible, but no simpler. > > If you simplify complex realities too much, you lose valuable detail. If it's > complex, it's complex. If you want to leave out a level of detail, such as > being able to distinguish between the different types of services provided on > behalf of multiple "tenant" countries in a diplomatic mission, then so be it, > but let's discuss whether it is desirable to leave that out, and whether the > resultant ambiguity is acceptable. Data modelling means constructing an > approximation to reality, and is all about what details to keep in and what > to leave out. Once it is left out, it cannot be reconstructed from the rest > of the data. (If it can, your data model is not properly normalised.) > > If OSM is being limited to being suboptimal because of politics and the > inability to reach consensus, I would rather the system was fixed instead of > condemning the whole business to eternal mediocrity. >
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