On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 03:39:52PM -0400, Tom MacWright wrote: > TagInfo's API is certainly pretty good, and it might be good enough. > Possibly this would be taginfo, or just a very small subset of what taginfo > provides - my general objective is to reduce the number of apis and types > of apis you need to understand & count on being stable in order to write an > editor. There's more than one technical way to get there.
Taginfo has always been intended as a sort of hub to collect information on tag usage and bring it to those who need it. It has the web UI but I had always hoped people would also use the API to add this functionality to editors and the like. I encourage you to look at what the taginfo API has to offer. What is especially interesting and what you'll never get out of the OSM API is access to information like the tag descriptions from the Wiki. The taginfo API and taginfo itself has been very stable for almost a year now. I don't forsee any major changes. But if there are changes, the API contains a version number, so we can keep backwards compatibility. Note that the taginfo API was mostly written to support the Web UI, just because thats what was needed, but we could certainly add special API calls or additional parameters or so, if thats whats needed. Discussions about the details should probably happen on the taginfo-dev list. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
