On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote: [...]
Ok, all that sounded oddly familiar...
Atomic categorization aka tagging however also sucks:
Well, I certainly would not say it sucks. After all _every_ major image library uses it. Will it be perfect? Probably not, but perfect is the enemy of good enough ;-)
the tags are either too generic (so it's hard to find stuff) or too specific (you never know what to search for). tags implying/including other tags is very useful. which is exactly
I do not see this problem at all. In my example above we would have _both_ specific (Normandy, Guernsey) and general (France) tags. Search for what ever you like and narrow down using intersection. How can you not know what to search for? This is a problem we have _now_! Out categories are ridiculously specific. Going atomic will only make this situation better in this respect.