On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Simone Saviolo <[email protected]>wrote:
> Well, if we really wanted to do that, it would suffice to have > meta-tags. Each tag would have an UID, and applications could > associate UIDs to human-readable strings, maybe even with > localization. Not that I advocate this. > Without changing any API code, relations could be used. In any case, it's something OSM desperately needs. Repeating amenity=fast_food, operator=McDonald's, cuisine=burger 14,000 times is insane. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization#Objectives_of_normalization
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