Karl Newman wrote:

> As someone else aptly put it earlier: OSM is about being machine-readable,
> otherwise it might as well be OpenAerialMap.

Yes and no. It has to be machine-readable, true, but our USP is our  
active mapper userbase. So the design, accepting that it facilitates  
both, should be _optimised_ for ease of mapping, not for ease of  
parsing by machine.

cheers
Richard


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