On 9 May 2008, at 14:51, Vincent MEURISSE wrote: >> > You can look at merkaartor. It implement something like that. When you > draw a road, it show up a translated list for the tags. I thing that > an editor must hide tags for most usages to avoid tagging errors and > allows power users to change row tags.
agreed > >> For example, ways could have a >> numeric type field with, hypothetically, 10-19 being used for roads. >> In this scenario 11 might be a UK motorway, an Italian autostrada or >> an American interstate, while 19 might be a rough track > > And why use tags at all. We can use highway=1 railway=2 amenity=3 > name=4. Then we will renouce to xml format and use a binary one and > then close the source of osm software. > Seriously we use xml. The principle of xml is to be human readable and > use text attribute. If there is any tagging facility and tags > translation, it's the job of the editor. > I'm sure you must know of the binary data proposal. I have developed a mobile OSM viewer which uses the bitmap tiles - slow and big for mobile devices. But XML data is way bigger! There is a great deal to be said for a binary format. But the future is probably XML. I have no objection to tags with words (they are inevitable anyway for such things a names) provided they chosen to allow things like level-of- detail filtering and future growth, and are (as you say) separated from the user by the editor. elvin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
