Proposed features/reference_point - Voting

[reneman]

Allg. Information:

Hier gibt es eine Abstimmung:
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Proposed_features/reference_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/Proposed_features/reference_point](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/reference_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/pipermail/tagging/2012-March/009613.html](http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2012-March/009613.html)
Request for comments:
[http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2013-June/013791.html](http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2013-June/013791.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…

FrViPofm

Gruß