On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> end_date=YYYY-MM-DD (estimated date if needed, leave off the day and or > the month if you like) > > Hopefully renders will automatically take account of this at some point > in the future, I'd doubt it. What's far more likely (and probably more useful) is for the end-date to be one of the inputs to maplint (or other future tools) to flag things for mappers to double-check at the appropriate time. There's going to be so, so many applications using OSM data in a few months from now, and many will have naive implementations, at least to start. end_date and start_date is about the 85th thing you'd implement in a renderer, not the second (behind rendering highways). So it's probably better to rely more on the community than the technology, as we usually do. > meaning we will no longer need the: > x=y => x=z,z=y > hack (where z is proposed or disused or whatever) Again, it's only a hack to make the simple, most common use of OSM data a little bit easier. We don't want to put off application developers at the very first hurdle - and it's much easier to filter by tags than by dates* Cheers, Andy * I can tell, because nobody has actually coded the latter, only talked about it. > > Robert (Jamie) Munro > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFH85qqz+aYVHdncI0RAtSyAKCs2y/QUQMENTUf9O7Rd4kduBVjuACeL1fO > 0DcrWoRdPB8rLDFC3AHbUYM= > =wG54 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
