Thanks for the feedback. Of course, I think it is not interesting to access ALL the tags. So, here are two fresh ideas: - just the tags of the uploader: personnaly, I try to use the same tags) - just the tags already used on a boundingbox: personnally, the tags I use are related to the place tagged (for example, name of town + name of region + name of country)
The second option is possible because Viking is a desktop application, so it knows bounding box *before* uploading. So, it can request the tags just before upload. Do you think it's possible? 2008/8/28 Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Guilhem Bonnefille wrote: > >> I'm working on Viking[1], a GPS desktop application with OSM related >> features. >> >> In order to assist user when uploading its traces to OSM, I wish to >> contact OSM, retrieve the previously used tags, and propose these tags >> to the user for the new trace. >> >> Is there such API actually? > > No, and I don't think one would be practical. To start with we don't > currently normalise the tags at all so there is lots of duplication in the > tag table - the only way to get a list of tags is to select distinct on the > tag column. > > Scale wise we have about 250,000 tag records currently, and even if you > remove the duplicates there are about 40,000 or so. I don't think people are > going to want to download 40,000 tags even if we wanted to let them. > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.compton.nu/ > -- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -=- #UIN: 15146515 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
