On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> >> As Kyle Gordon brought up in this thread the issue is that the OSM >> data has both building=yes/no and building=true/false and flickr only >> supports the former. > > Yes but OSM data also has 200,000 "building=hut", 25,000 > "building=residential", 20,000 "building=industrial", 10,000 > "building=apartements", 5,000 "building=detached", 3,000 "building=house", > 2,000 "building=garages"... down to a "building=bubblehall" and a > "building=beehive". > >> Dave F. suggested that the OSM database be normalized to just use the >> former because that's simpler. > > So what exactly did he want to normalise?
I don't think anyone is suggesting that all building=* values be normalized to yes/no. Merely that normalizing the multiple boolean values we have might aid users of our data. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
