[OSM-dev] The wiki defines the database

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Wed Nov 5 14:39:25 GMT 2008


Ben Supnik wrote:

> As a new user, my source for answers is going to be:
> 
> 1. What the tools do/make easy.  If potlatch gave me a red flag and said 
> "you must add tag X before continuing", I would have done it. :-)
> 
> 2. What is in the map _locally_ (in the spatial sense).
> 
> 3. What the Wiki says.
> 
> 4. What is in the map globally.
> 
> To put it simply: to me it seems crazy to not have emerging data 
> standards from the map documented on the Wiki.

I don't think anybody disagrees with that - the problem comes when the 
standards are created on the wiki rather than emerging from the map and 
being documented on the wiki.

Tom

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