Jun 25, 2023, 01:13 by g...@lexort.com: > Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> writes: > >> sent from a phone >> >>> On 24 Jun 2023, at 00:29, Minh Nguyen <m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote: >>> >>> But if we focus too pedantically on legal status at the expense of >>> common sense, then we've reinvented designation=*, and mappers and >>> data consumers have to find yet another key to express what could've >>> been in highway=*. >>> >> >> oh yes, absolutely, if legal status and common sense/reality are not >> congruent we should record both. >> > (...) > > But none of that matters to OSM; if there is a shop that is selling > cannabis, then it is tagged as such, regardless of whether it is a > federal crime but not a state crime, a crime under neither legal regime, > or a crime under both. And it doesn't matter exactly how either regime > defines what is or is not unlawful. > > So I find the attention to legal definitions in the present discussion > bizarre. > That is a different situation. shop=medical_cannabis would be analogous to shop=firearms as it is a legal term (if I understood it right) with variety of differences across places and wild changes in its definition over time, and therefore a poor terms to use in OSM (like shop=firearms apparently)
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