On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> I think it would be a good idea to create a repository of such tagging > standards where everyone can create new standards to his heart's > content, and the user of an editor can then select one of the existing > standards (or create a new one). - That would most likely create a > situation in which a few popular tagging standards emerge, and a certain > competition among these will help create something really good in the > long run without ever having to have something "authoritative". > > I like this idea a lot, Frederik. I imagine something like a presets file that all editors could parse to display commonly-used key/value pairs. Each would have a description (optionally i18nized (so that "motorway" would describe a "highway" in the US and an actual "motorway" in the UK)) and perhaps could be auto-updated weekly from the planet file. That way JOSM and Potlatch could present suggestions that are broader than just the currently-loaded OSM file (in JOSM's case) and some preset file (in Potlatch's case). Perhaps some simplified editor could only show the top X values for a given tag (ranked by use in the wild) while a more advanced editor could show a whole lot more.
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