"Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)" <[email protected]> writes:
> Frederik Ramm wrote: >>Sent: 20 February 2009 1:48 AM >>To: Steve Hill >>Cc: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Ponderings about an improved tagging scheme >> >>Hi, >> >>Steve Hill wrote: >>>> Your concept is utterly unworkable of course with the current software >>>> landscape, >>> >>> Would you like to explain why it is utterly unworkable? >> >>Every single OSM tool treats relations as some "nice to have" extra, >>whereas I understood your concept to make them central. A way would not >>have any meaning by itself but only in the context of a relation. I >>believe this would require a major re-write of many tools to remain >>halfway efficient, thus my verdict of "utterly unworkable with the >>current software landscape". > > There is also the point that it has to be easily understandable to > contributors. Relations are only just starting to be understood by a few > dedicated mappers, anything that increases complexity on other objects will > require a very slick editor interface to bury that complexity from the > contributor, especially as I very much hope in the not to distant future we > might seen the emergence of very simple editor functions for adding POI's > and the like by a much wider populace. This is probably easier for newcomers than for people who just got used to the current way of doing things. I don't think complexity is a big issue here because it makes the tagging more consistent. Instead of thinking nodes/ways/relations one needs to think points/(poly)lines/objects. Everything you want to map is an object, most of which need to get a geographic reference as one of its attributes. Of course this needs editor support, but I don't think it needs to be very slick. Matthias _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
