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Make `category` values arrays? #16

Closed nickidlugash closed 7 years ago

nickidlugash commented 7 years ago

In v2, we added a category key. Some places though fall under multiple categories (e.g. if a place was chosen to represent the interaction between a park and a tunnel, it should probably be categorized as both landuse and tunnel). Would it make sense to use array values for this key rather than single strings?

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dasulit commented 7 years ago

I'm hesitant about using arrays for categories because it might result in a redundancy between categories and tags. I think this might be telling of the fatal flaw of the category solution, which this time around I'm not feeling as confident on 😬

What do you think of the idea that categories apply to tags, not places? In the data, that could mean we go all in on separators (road:main barrier:hedge), and remove categories as a separate key.

nickidlugash commented 7 years ago

superseded by https://github.com/mapbox/gazetteer/issues/17