On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Your concept is utterly unworkable of course with the current software
landscape,
Would you like to explain why it is utterly unworkable?
"Instead of having a geometric object with some properties, we instead think
of objects with some properties (like “this is a museum” and “this has the
name Natural History Museum”) and the added property of “this object is
positioned at such and such a location”. ... So the geometry is not the
object itself, as it is now, but it is just one property of some kind of
abstract object."
I'm not sure what you mean by this - Every object on a map is a geometric
object, so what are you claiming is the difference between "a geometric
object with some properties" and an "object with some properties"?
I believe this is indeed the way many pros are doing it - there is an object
and the geometry is one of many properties of the object. It is a concept to
keep in mind for the more distant future; I don't think we should aim to do
it with the current implementation of relations though.
I think you are somehow misunderstanding what I proposed - my idea really
isn't that different from what we have now. For example, at the moment
you can create some ways and group them into a relation which you tag as a
bus route, or a cycle route, etc.
I am essentially suggesting 2 things:
1. the tagging schemes between relations and other objects are unified.
So the tags "type=road, classification=primary", etc. can be applied to
either a way, or a relation consisting of ways.
2. the "type" tag can be used to define a context for normal objects, much
as it does for relations. So rather than having to understand that
a large number of fairly arbitrary tags, such as "highway=road" and
"amenity=school" define what the object is, you now only have to know
that the "type" tag is going to define what the object is.
Both of these points seem compeltely workable with the current software.
- Steve
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