2009/10/2 David Lynch <[email protected]>: > 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.
This is almost the exact same discussion as the "SteveC should decide" thread on the main talk list with opposite outcomes.... _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
