On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Simone Saviolo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simone.saviolo@gmail.com">simone.saviolo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Well, if we really wanted to do that, it would suffice to have<br>
meta-tags. Each tag would have an UID, and applications could<br>
associate UIDs to human-readable strings, maybe even with<br>
localization. Not that I advocate this.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Without changing any API code, relations could be used.</div><div><br></div><div>In any case, it's something OSM desperately needs. Repeating amenity=fast_food, operator=McDonald's, cuisine=burger 14,000 times is insane. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization#Objectives_of_normalization">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization#Objectives_of_normalization</a></div>
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