Stefan Keller wrote: >Sent: 12 February 2008 12:36 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [OSM-dev] Restrict key names on order to retain reusability of OSM > >Hi all, > >I just have finished a converter of OSM xml format to GML and I BOLDLY >suggest to constrain the allowed characters of tags (= key-names) to the >following XML related set: >'aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ_' in order to retain >reusability.
No chance, GML is going to have to get with the times. OSM is of course an international open project so just about anything that gets thrown at it is acceptable. If you want something out of OSM the tools are going to have to be clever and work with whatever is there (or ignore it as you see fit.) Cheers Andy > >After having looked at more than 100 MB of data we found in key names >characters like space, slashes, colons and even more weird ones. I don't >think this will take too much of users freedom of choice... > >What do you think to agree on such a character list and subsequenctly to >build this into editors like JOSM on order to get clean key names from the >beginning? > >-- Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
