Oct 15, 2020, 14:58 by andrew.harv...@gmail.com: > > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 23:44, Volker Schmidt <> vosc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> May I remind my dear mapper friends, that tags are just that: tags. From the >> database point of view these are just couples of arbitrarily chosen, >> character strings. OSM uses a convention to make it easier to memorize these >> strings by using GB-English terms for them, but, I repeat that is just a >> convention to help our human brain facilities. If you were to replace the >> string "man_made" at every occurrence in the database and in all programs >> that use the database with "3rgnJI)oò-" this would make no difference to OSM >> (provided you use different strings for different keys/values), but it would >> make a huge differnce to the work of inserting/correcting/consulting data by >> human beings. >> In addition, replacing one string with another string in all occurrences in >> OSM, apart from creating completely unnecessary new versiones of the >> objects, is trivial. Changing all products that make use of these data will >> be an enormous amount of work. >> And all this effort achieve what? >> > > Exactly. The human readable version of tags is done through things like > editor presets and partly via the wiki infoboxes, where they can be localised > into different languages and regions. The actual tag names bear zero weight > I would not go so far, large part of edits is interacting with raw tag values and "zero weight" is a significant overstatement
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