Jochen Topf wrote: >Sent: 20 February 2009 8:41 AM >To: G H S >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Ponderings about an improved tagging scheme > >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.
That's the nicest way I've seen in put to date. That should go on the wiki.... Cheers Andy >Jochen >-- >Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721- >388298 > > >_______________________________________________ >dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.0/1959 - Release Date: 02/19/09 >18:45:00 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
