On 8/10/12 11:19 AM, Rob Nickerson wrote:
Apologies. What was meant was that software need only cut off the extended values to return to existing systems (and thus compatibility). For example "maxspeed=120; wet 80" is chopped down to "maxspeed=120 ".
the problem is that there are many data consumers. we don't have control over the schedule/responsiveness of their supporters (nor should we). for any incompatible change like this one, there will be a period where a non-trivial number of data consumers are broken. does this mean we shouldn't make incompatible changes? no, sometimes that's necessary. what it does mean is that we should prefer compatible ways of improving the tag system unless a incompatible change offers a major advance that is not otherwise possible. richard _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
