On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 06:20, David Earl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/10/2009 03:25, SteveC wrote: >> I want to revive a very old idea - tag equivalences. > > I would like to go further than Steve proposes, but I understand it is a > hard sell to the anarchist wing of OSM while being welcome to the > conformist wing. But I really think what I outline below treads a middle > way. I'm absolutely not proposing to restrict anyone's freedom to add > new tags or values. > > I think it would be really helpful to bring together the tag definitions > into one place, *in the database and API itself*. I mean a complete > schema: the tags, their possible values, their descriptions (in multiple > languages), their equivalences both in other languages and synonyms, > their related tags (in essence properties of the main descriptive tag, > hence oneway=... with highway=...), deprecations and so on. >
+1 It's possible to have anarchy without chaos. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
