On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 22:17, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: let me just repeat that ... > > "In OSM meaning of word used as key frequently has nearly no relation with > meaning of tag." >
Unlike you, I do not read that as an endorsement of the practise but as a lamentation. Consider if we decided to tag schools as amenity=restaurant and restaurants as landcover=trees. Not a problem, because OSM meaning has nearly no relation to natural language usage, right? With the right lookup table in editor presets and renderers it would work. Apart from when a mapper looks at the raw tag... Ideally, OSM meaning would always match natural British English meaning. Because otherwise we end up with things like landuse=forest (intended for logging) being used to map areas of trees not used for logging. We should strive to create tags that match their natural British English usage and lament those cases which do not meet that aim. -- Paul
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