[OSM-dev] 0.6
Raphael Studer
studerap at gmail.com
Wed May 7 11:13:12 BST 2008
> You also have to realise just how many tags there are.
> On nodes and ways there are close to 1 billion tags, comprising of
> about 50 million distinct key-value pairs (this was the last time I
> counted which was a while back).
>
> So while you'd save on space, the table join to get the tags back
> wouldn't be that cheap.
I guess there are a lot of key-value pairs, but joining tables is what
relational databased are made for.
> As far as typos go, well, the typos are in there too so they'd turn up
> in your autocomplete if you used it verbatim. You also have to
> separate out tags used on nodes, tags used on ways, and tags used on
> relations.
The api change would be a good time to clean out most of the typos.
with the node_tags, way_tags and relation_tags table (sorry i've completly
forgotten these above), they are allready separated.
> As far as your map features extension goes, this wouldn't need to be
> real-time so it could be done on a different machine by processing the
> planet dump. I think there would be a lot of value in a site which
> could achieve something along the lines of an extended TagWatch, but
> you probably don't need an API change to do it.
I agree with you, that the map features dosn't need to be created realtime.
An extended TagWatch could probably be a better solution than a map
feature extension. But I guess, TagWatch would also profit from this change.
The changes would more be an enhancement of the API (getNodeTags/
getWayTags/getNodeKeys...) than a change.
Raphael
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