On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> wrote: > Dave Stubbs wrote: >> I wouldn't read too much into it, especially as they said, >> "we’ve almost certainly got at least some of it wrong but hopefully we >> got part of it right and can correct the rest as we go" >> >> Dave >> >> > You see, this is the problem. I don't think, in this instance, they've > done anything wrong. This is an OSM cock-up. > I think it's quite selfish to expect others to pick up the pieces of, > what I see, as lazy implementation. > > Who, within OSM & in their right sense of mind, would object to being > forced to use just Yes/No. I mean it's just an on/off switch! >
This is more about making it easier to edit than anything else. Currently users have to type stuff in or use some preset entry mechanism which doesn't really present the data to the user afterwards and allow them to edit it. Historically users had no option but to type values, and so you get this variation. In the future I'm imagining users are going to be using much more friendly interfaces to edit the common tags, and these interfaces will tend to normalise the values a little. See the developing potlatch 2 for the kind of thing I mean: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/potlatch2/potlatch2.html (click on ways to see the tag editing interfaces) But anyway, yes, there's some variation that data users will have to deal with, but that's just the way it is. Dave PS. anyone notice the Potlatch 2 plug?! Any AS3/Flex developers around who want to help out? Code is in svn at: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/editors/potlatch2 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
