For what it's worth Flickr often had a similar conversation with the
Y!Geo / WOE kids, especially in the early days when we were just getting
to know one another.
The short version is that we were simply not going to use their IDs if
they couldn't guarantee that they has some measure of
For what it's worth we were aware that IDs were technically considered
unstable when we started down the OSM machine tags extras road, at Flickr.
It seemed like a reasonable potential gotcha given that most of the IDs
are stable most of the time and the risks were outweighed by the
benefits
I don't, no. I do still see people adding osm:* tags to their photos
though, via the RSS feeds, but realistically I don't expect its gotten
much traction.
Like the blog post said it's still pretty a dorky feature and that
means it really needs some love and tools and examples to help people
Hi all,
[I made buildingsequalyes.spum.org]
First, thanks to everyone for their kind words about the project! It's
been a couple of weeks since it was pushed out the door and I've mostly
been letting it bake to see if anything breaks and to solicit comments
and suggestions.
The =yes part
Hi all,
(I'm the dork who wrote the dorky machine tag post.)
Just a quick note to say:
1) We're thrilled people like OSM machine tag stuff. I would love to
hear suggestions and wish lists. I won't promise anything, here, but the
entire thing did start with Frankie's wacky suggestion.
2) It's
