On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:18:04AM +0000, G H S wrote: > What Steve has proposed is what I would have expected. I can already see > adding a "natural" type, so I added a quick one to his page.
Objekts in the real world can't neatly be categorized into types. The world is much more complicated than this. So OSM has a different approach: We just have attributes of objects called tags. Tags tell you *something about* an object, but they don't tell you what it *is*. Or, if you want to, you can see it this way: The sum of all the tags on an object is the type. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
