"tags" ⇢ "properties"
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Domain
- api, documentation
Research direction
Start by locating every occurrence of "tags" in the specification and protocol buffer definition, then compare the terminology used by the linked mapnik-vector-tile and vector-tile-js libraries. Done means the affected specification and definition consistently use "properties" and the compatibility impact of the rename has been assessed.
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Description
The specification and protocol buffer definition should use the term "properties", not "tags". "Tags" is OSM-specific nomenclature; "properties" is much more common in the Geo world.
In fact, our own principal libraries for vector tiles prefer "properties":
I'm open to this being closed as woulda-coulda-shoulda but too painful to change, if that's the case. It's not a huge deal, I just wanted to invite some discussion.
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