[Openstreetmap] RE: [Openstreetmap-dev] OSM - Schema - Phase 1 - Request for Comment

[Nick Whitelegg]

"Tom Carden" <tom at tom-carden.co.uk>
29/11/2005 13:48

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>Nick, I agree with you 99.999%, if only you hadn't slipped formats in that
>list of itches to scratch.  I'm almost certain that people who think their
>itch is this or that XML format are actually using it as a proxy for their
>real itch (drawing things nicer, showing changes, annotating things
>better, etc).

You're probably right, I'm really not that hung up on formats (:-) ), I
just
kind of thought it would be kind of nice to take an XHTML-like approach
with an
OSM format. But I fully agree, it's not as important as actually
implementing
interesting new features. Sorry if it came over that way :-)

Nick