> 2009/3/25 Radomír Černoch <[email protected]>: > > Firstly create the initial ontology to support at > > least all official map elements. > > Hi Radomír, > > There's no such thing. In fact, the lack of a fixed/official ontology > is held as one of the key defining attributes of the success, > flexibility and scalability of OSM, so I'm not sure how well your > project will work in the long run. I could see you getting to the end > of your project and having a working system that is used here and > there, but isn't accepted by significant parts of the OSM community. > > Some other project where a successful outcome to your summer leads to > wider acceptance of your code is probably a better idea.
I wouldn't say so. He is not suggesting to restrict people from putting things into the database, but to build a machine-readable description of what is actually in there. Simply replace "official" by "commonly used", and his ideas make a lot of sense. -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
