Joseph Booker wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:02:05 +1100 > Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Joseph Booker wrote: >>> Not sure if you are trolling or just >>> not aware of the wiki, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt and >>> assume the latter. >> I wouldn't say that this guy is trolling at all, but has put a lot of >> thought into his mail. >> I don't find your quick answers helpful to myself, who is interested >> to see a way forward from these discussions, not sideways or >> backwards. > > Figured a sideways look would help for perspective. Just wanted to make > clear that there is an accepted schema, which may not be as strictly > enforced as the original poster would like but matches most of his > thoughts. > > The similarity of his ideas with the way things are currently run > (excluding the "classes" of tags based on what kind of values they > accept) with the obvious desire for controlling clients is what made me > think this was trollish, but like I said, I'm just going to assume he > was unaware of the wiki and the procedures done there to formalize the > tags in the database. > > Egil, sorry if I came off as rude. I just think your email not > accounting for the wiki serving (maybe ineffectively, that is another > discussion) the purpose of your strict "tagging" mail group reflects > some misunderstandings. If I am wrong, please let me know and I would > be happy to offer comments on your proposal itself.
Actually - I think Egil's email packages up completely what IS missing from even the wiki ... As soon as you ARE looking to add detail, the wiki collapses into something of a free for all? His idea for a table of keys with their details is something I've been advocating for a long time, and *IS* essential to add a level of compatibility once you actually allow multi-lingual use of the tools. ( Simply replacing long English strings with a unique numeric tag IN the data would then be the natural way to compact the core data without affecting any of the detail! ) YES the wiki has the basics, but if English is not a language you easily understand, then the 'translations' where they do exist are not particularly consistent with the basic English 'rules' ( at least that is my understanding - based on feedback - since I even have trouble with English sometimes ;) ) ( Egil - a little aside, while a check box for boolean would be nice, there is still an element of 'NULL' - that is in addition to setting a boolean tag, one still needs to decide if it should or should not be present ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
