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

[Immanuel Scholz]

Hi,

>> > But for most problems CSV *is* enough!
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[much ranting]
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> In the mean time, my program that used CSV will have done the job, gone to
> the pub and will be chatting up your bird.

For heavens sake, please! If you really want your CSV implemented, do it.
I doubt that the XML converting part is the most complicated thing we
currently have.

If it is much easier to write the transport in CSV or Adobe Illustrator or
even "ROT13 encoded Ascii of numbers with base 42" then just write it.
Shouldn't be that hard to do in ruby, since the converting to XML seems
always to be the last line of the functions and only one call.

An other way could be a proxy which read XML and spit out CSV. If in some
month only the superiour CSV proxy is used: fine. If not: fine. I'd try it
out but I doubt it get me any noticable advantage or disadvantage over
XML, be it in size, speed, memory consumption or anything. "Whatever works
is cool."


And btw: My suggested XML schema makes this much more easy than GPX, since
it is not a tree but very list-orientated, so it's just a piece of cake to
make any wanted transfer format from it.


Ciao, Imi.

PS: I still don't see why this discussion has to be in osm and not in
osm-dev mailing list... Maybe some lazy guy just always answer to osm
mailing list? ;)