2008/12/20 Simon Ward <si...@bleah.co.uk>: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:42:01PM +0200, Nic Roets wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Erik Johansson <erjo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Why do people use "_" instead of " ", seems very cumbersome really. >> >> Because >> * it's been an OSM convention (standard) since 2006. No one voted and >> the wiki wasn't locked. >> * many of us are programmers >> * it's easier to spot mistakes like "__" than " " > > That just calls for better highlighting of possible mistakes in editors > and viewers and lint‐checkers. Of course, my patches are absolutely > ready to be committed… ☺ > > Same goes for trying to encode hierarchy into keys and values really. > It's quite cumbersome. We're using XML, it's good for structuring data > (eye of the beholder thing there), and instead of trying to encode > structure in values that's where it should be. Of course, my complete > overhaul of OpenStreetMap tools/API to do all this is just around the > corner too. I jest. >
Well XML is just the transport format. The actual database is stored in a relational database, and they really aren't very good at hierarchies at all. Anyway, if you want hierarchies you can always use relations :-) Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
