[Openstreetmap] Re: [Openstreetmap-dev] OSM's Schema - movingit forwards.

[Nick Whitelegg]

>At the moment, such keys (eg name) and any associated values are being
>placed as "tags" within the node or line segment XML. I am not expecting
>this to a sufficiently rich format for OSM's full needs and the delineated
>method of multiple keys is inappropriate for the XML format (at least as I
>understand it)... so we will either find a way to incorporate everything
we
>need (including user generated "tags" - ie keeping a wiki style) within
and
>as extensions of the GPX schema or we will develop something similar but
OSM
>specific. That?s what I am working on evaluating right now.

I agree here, and Steve has got it down as a "todo" for a 0.3 or 0.4
version
of the schema. As I mentioned earlier, it would seem appropriate for every
node tag to have a "name" attribute and a "class" attribute, at least, and
probably for segments to have a series of "permissions" attributes to
describe
what can use that segment (pedestrians, bikes, horses, cars etc)

Nick





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