[Openstreetmap-dev] OSM's Schema - moving itforwards.

[Immanuel Scholz]

Hi,

> Genealogy is one of those areas where lots of people need to share
> data in a common format and XML has turned out to be surprisingly poor for
> that.

Providing bad examples does not prove unusefullness. It proves only that
XML is not usefull EVERYwhere.

I bet that bad examples can be provided for every single thing, since I
believe there is nothing that fits ALL needes.


> We already use GPX as a transfer means and I see no reason why we can't
> use this as a continued basis.

For reasoning about this, there was a thread some month ago in this list.
To summarize, GPX can not give all things OSM should provide without
extending it to a point, where it could not be called "GPX" without our
nose increasing by several inches each time we mention that.


> I see this XML debate more about providing a textural discussion format of
> how the database works for us, rather than it being a restrictive set of
> rules.

I don't understand what you mean.. ?

All we need is a simple, easy but good enough way to transfer data from A
to B. "Parameter to XMLRPC" was dropped before I joined OSM for some
reason and "REST and GPX" is not really sufficient and get too clumsy if
extended too much, so the idea was to use a simple "REST and own XML
format".


Ciao, Imi.