andrzej zaborowski wrote: > If you had read the message to which you were responding though you > would notice I'm not suggesting the canvec tag be removed, from which > the osm tag was derived, just the second canvec tag that contains a > textual, english language definition of the first tag. On *every* > object that uses the tag, the exact same two-three english sentences > (see the prime numbers example)
I think one of the problems here is that there is no real mechanism IN OSM for providing that data as part of the OSM downloads? There is a lot of duplication, but if I see a 'canvec' or any other external source tag, then should I have to start searching for external references to supply more information? But if there was a means whereby 'exact same two-three english sentences' could be packaged to provide a lookup table that any viewer could then access things would be a lot easier? While I'm ranting ... is there a cross reference OF sources that can be used for attribution details? But then I still don't accept that things like 'tourism=hotel, rating=3 stars' has to be duplicated everywhere anyway when the API can quite easily convert a simple alphnumeric tag to what ever language the target viewer requires? You can still retain the flexibility of people creating their own undocumented main tags, but one gets a unified view of all the core material without the misunderstanding caused by forcing english on everybody? I've suggested in the past that there should be a unified 'place' table with a well structured hierarchy so that everybody uses the same id number for a place name, and this is the place that mappings such as gnis:county_id=052 - gnis:county_name=Multnomah would be added and referenced from? Looking up gnis, canvec or tiger in the place table would show which areas the relevent source covers? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
