On 7/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dean Earley</b> <<a href="mailto:dean@earlsoft.co.uk">dean@earlsoft.co.uk</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;">
> p.s. presumably having a set of map features for each country means that we<br>> automatically get the localised colour schemes by using (e.g.) rue=autoroute<br>> in one area and highway=motorway in another<br>
<br>As I've stated before, I think this is a VERY bad idea as it means that<br>EVERY renderer/processor needs to know about EVERY language to use the<br>data sensibly and uniformly.<br>This is a LOT of duplicated data.</blockquote>
<div><br>Which is exactly why renderers are configurable.<br><br>A tagging scheme that is suitable for the UK is totally inappropriate for other countries. Unless the whole world is going to be mapped by people from here then we had better start making it easier for people with different native languages, different systems of road classification and different cultures to tag their own areas their own way.
<br></div><br>Etienne<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br>Dean Earley, Dee (<a href="mailto:dean@earlsoft.co.uk">dean@earlsoft.co.uk
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