[OSM-dev] "Map Features" in XML?

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:39:05PM +0200, Chris Browet wrote:
> > I hardly think migrating Map Features to have the master copy as an
> > XML file will help getting people to maintain it.
> 
> Well, if your opinion is that a wiki page is a proper way to store data, is
> easily maintainable, not prone to structure change and that static data
> should run through a parser before being usable...
> 
> If you also believe that WIKI->XML is easier /more maintainable than
> XML->WIKI...
> 
> I strongly believe this is nonsense, though...

No, I'm not that stupid :)

The one thing a wiki is though is easy to edit, which XML isn't,
especially given that you would have to store it in SVN or some other
place where most people don't have write access.

Do we want to give the entire tagging mafia svn accounts?

End-user-edited data will mostly need post-processing afterwards to
fit into something our software wants anyway.

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Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
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