Am Dienstag 24 Februar 2009 schrieb Dave Stubbs: > > 1. ... every application trying to use the data has to deal with several > > taggings for the same thing. that's an unnecessary waste of resources. > > a script running on the database can minimize this waste, and > > furthermore, can fix typos in tags, which are also found all over the > > database. > > 1) Typos are a different beast entirely. If you've applied proper > context then some sort of fix bot might work. And some kind of > validation tool would be even better. > yes, this is something different, but technically very similar. you mean validation in the editors? ok, but not during editing but before the upload/commit.
> 2) OMG two tags!!1! Trust me when I say this is a trivial thing to > include when you consider some of the other random tagging variations > that people keep voting in. > it may be trivial, but when you have to do this for every possible tag with some variations, it's a waste of time, that should not be necessary. parsing the osm xml files is already a ressource consuming task; every unnecessary work should be omitted.
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