Stefan Keller wrote: > BTW: Restrincting tags in del.icio.us to ASCII did not restrain the success > of social bookmarking in any way IMHO.
And allowing \W tags in OSM has not restrained the success of Mapnik, Osmarender, the cycle map, the Garmin .img files, Kosmos, or any of the other wonderful things that people are doing, right now, with OSM data. If GML is sufficiently braindead that it can't cope with anything beyond the charset of a Sinclair Spectrum*, the converter should have an escaping function. Like Andy says, constraining OSM for this one particular use - and it is just one use, none of the others above are affected by it - is mad. I could equally say that Actionscript doesn't like colons in keys (which it doesn't), so colons should be banned. After all, there are many many more people using Actionscript on OSM data (via Potlatch) than there are GML. Instead I wrote about three lines of code to escape them. I recommend it. :) cheers Richard * Actually, I'm misrepresenting the Spectrum. It had some very handy block-graphic characters at 128+. Mr Westcott, are you there? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
