On 7/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nicola Ranaldo</b> <<a href="mailto:ranaldo@unina.it">ranaldo@unina.it</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> *Applaude*. I really enjoyed reading this, because that is exactly the<br>> spirit I like to have in OSM. People who just use tags. :)<br><br>remember etienne used a namespace :))))</blockquote><div><br>Yes, the use of namespaces would enable both a rigid schema (such as Map Features) and other personal or specialised schema to live together. I'd really like to see all Map Features tags (highway= etc) prefixed with mf:.
<br><br>Now that Imi has given us the Annotation Presets for JOSM it should be easy to add mf: without requiring more keystrokes from everyone.<br><br>Etienne<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> My hope is, that more people just use the tagging system at what it is:<br>> A big storage of key/value pairs to do creative stuff with ;-).<br><br>Some genetic software able to understand the ironic meanings of several
<br>petabytes of different tags on year 2100 ? :)))<br>I may tag all the place where i meet a girl :)) and other peoples could want<br>in doing the same, if someone want to create a density map we have to share<br>the same tag system!
<br><br>> And if someone likes your "ibm" (btw: what does it mean? ;) tag, then he<br>> can rename or copy the tag to something like "important=yes" ;-)<br><br>if someone rename them, etienne rendering tools will break and etienne will
<br>ask you to rollback changes :)<br><br>> (And if anyone say anything like "performance" or "privacy", then we<br>> will probably need tag-separation by different servers to solve this.<br>> IMHO what we don't need is rigid structures.)
<br><br>I think we need rigid structures on a very well defined namespace for<br>rendering/routeplanning.. STOP!... and the total freedom on the "default" or<br>alternatives namespaces.<br>Josm, osmarender, osmeditor, osmviewer, and other tools already base their
<br>rendering engine on some "de facto" standards.<br>I think you do not want someone enter your preferred area and breaks all your<br>work adopting a strange, creative, beautiful tagging system colliding<br>with "de facto" system... :)
<br><br>Regards<br><br> Niko<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk">
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