<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Roy Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:waldo000000@gmail.com">waldo000000@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Um...what??? That will not write itself. Do you expect us to<br>
successfully digitize and maintain a database of all laws of all<br>
countries? </blockquote><div><br>What do you think? Work with me, here.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In a wiki, even? That's ambitious! I'd prefer to stick to<br>
mapping what's on the ground.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
</div>I agree that tedious busywork is not good. But we have computers -<br>
surely we're able to use presets etc. so that more<br>
verbosity/explicitness requires negligible amounts of additional<br>
labour. </blockquote><div><br>Yes...macros and scripts are always a first step in improving usability. Smarter data structures and algorithms, and better analysis of needs and solutions is the next.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Let's get the tagging schemes right first. Seriously, it's not<br>
going to be a big deal to e.g. add foot=yes/no to cycleways. </blockquote><div><br>You: It's easy to add "foot=yes".<br>Me: It's hard to get everyone to consistently add "foot=yes".<br><br>Just so we're clear on that. Can we move on? <br>
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Let's get the tagging right first - editor improvements will follow.<br><br></blockquote><div>If by "get the tagging right" you mean "analyse the problem, work out what people are doing, and come up with the most efficient set of tags for people to use", then yes. But I don't think you mean that.<br>
<br>Steve<br></div></div><br>