[OSM-dev] likenesses

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>
> Dave Stubbs wrote:
>> One of the big questions is whether all of this would make life
>> easier or harder for the renderers -- it would definitely raise the
>> tech start bar.
>
> Standard libraries ftw.
>
> People's unwillingness to do any form of pre-processing on an increasingly
> varied OSM dataset never ceases to amaze me. One bit of code translated into
> Perl/Ruby/AS3/whatever the cool kids are using(tm) sorts it all.

Or merely publishing their TagTransform rulesets, and then the most
useful ones will rise to predominance, perhaps with different ones for
different specialisms. Especially since nearly everyone uses osmosis
at some point in their toolchain.

Cheers,
Andy