Am 13. April 2012 08:20 schrieb Peter Wendorff <[email protected]>: > -10 for adding defaults as a hint for mappers!!! > > Every application using OSM data has to make assumptions about data not > present in the database, sure, but reliable data has to be present in the > database, as a missing tag in general can be both: missing/unknown, or > "default", whatever "default" means. > > If we would define a set of defaults and mappers follow that set, nobody > will add "default" values again, and it's not possible to distinguish > between default and unknown any more. > > Yes, sure: Applications should have these default values, and probably it is > useful to define some kind of "common defaults" in a file that can be used > and parsed by applications, but this should not be part of the osm mapping > work, but part of the software development around OSM (not in the osm core).
+1 to all of these cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
