On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Nick Whitelegg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SteveC wrote: > >>> I'd like to define some roads that really don't have a name so that > >>> they drop off the noname map. > > [..] > >>> Maybe name:__none__. Or something. > > > >>Sounds good to me.. +1 > > > > What about just name=""? > > > > > The problem with name="" is that it isn't blindingly obvious what that > means to other mappers... people are likely to just delete it as an > unnecessary empty tag. There are also probably a few of these about > already. > > The good point about name=__none__ is that I can bet large amounts of > money that no street is actually named "__none__" -- the bad points > are that renderers that don't know about it are going to write it in > the street name, and that if little Bobby Tables gets elected to a > council somewhere we may be in trouble ;-) > > I'd also be keen on something that no sane yahoo tracer could think > was a good thing to add. > > Dave So now instead of tagging for renderers we're tagging for validators? ;-) Karl
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