On 7/01/2011 4:00 AM, Peter Wendorff wrote:
What's the benefit of that?
What beside of this - I fear, stupid - "certification" is the benefit
for a hiking map in supporting e.g. maxspeed of motorways as part of
the OSM core being the decision basis to get the certification?
You've unfortunately made a couple of big assumptions, and drawn
conclusions from those.
Assumption 1: That there would only be one set of tags. (I used the
example "core" specifically because I expect there will be other,
"non-core" sets of tags)
Assumption 2: That every product that uses OSM data must support all
defined tags.
Instead, I can imagine "core" being very small. Maybe it doesn't even
need to exist. And then other sets: core, urban, natural, water,
cycling, ... Perhaps they overlap. We haven't even started thinking
about this yet.
so the core definition you propose would require to include
buildings in the map, no matter of their size and the drawbacks of
excluding most old devices by including the building layer?
No one has suggested such a thing.
Additionally there would have to be an organization/council/something
to give the certification to the application (in wide interpretation)
developer/vendor.
Let's not get sidetracked by this future hypothetical idea of
"certification". The first step is to define actual sets of tags, with
clear semantics.
Steve
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