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Proposed features/reference_point - Voting

Allg. Information:

Hier gibt es eine Abstimmung:
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Proposed_featu … ence_point

 reference_point=yes  

Le 03/07/2013 05:46, Felix Delattre a écrit :

    Dear community,

    please vote for this feature proposal:
    https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pro … ence_point

    This is needed to get proper route-planning working in all Central
    American countries.

    Thank you for all the feedback given and special thanks to Brycenesbitt
    [1] for reviewing the English language and cleaning up the proposal to
    provide only concrete, understandable and necessary information.

    If you wish you can have a look into prior communication logs:
    Initial conversation:
    http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermai … 09613.html
    Request for comments:
    http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermai … 13791.html

    Cheers,
    Felix

Sorry, I add not followed the discussion in the past.

In my point of view, before creating a new key, we must see if no available key is suitable.
It is easier to develop the use of existing, and well established, keys, by adding a new value, than creating a new key for just one specific use.
Each time we create a new key, we must adapt the tools to take it in account especially osm2psql must be adapted to create one column more the the tables.
Creating a new key is heavier than creating a new value.

And there is an existing key that seems to be suitable, with a new value : place=reference_point
The "place" key is already taken in account by a lot of tools, it is already widely used.

And the object to be tagged as place=reference_point could be a church, a gas station in a cross, a particular house, a tree...

I know several places in France where this kind of "natural" or descriptive routing would apply, e.g. :
"Prendre la route après la pharmacie puis le chemin à droite à la Maison Verte" (take the road after the pharmacy and then the path at right hand at the Green House" in a village where I lived in Provence
The house was no more green for long, but white. And there is now no more house but ruins. But we still say "La Maison Verte".
I would have tagged it with a "place" key, first as isolated_dwelling, and latter as location, and in fact "place=reference_point" would fit...
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Gruß

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