[OSM-dev] likenesses

[Jonathan Bennett]

Andy Allan wrote:
> We have already, it's been made and engineered and everything. Don't
> mistake endless unproductive waffle on the mailing lists as evidence
> that a problem hasn't been solved - it's just people who aren't
> capable pleading to the gods to come and save them from themselves.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/TagTransform

That's a way of dealing with the problem at a data level, but it doesn't
deal with it at a people level.

To use TagTransform you either have to accept the presets (which could
be out of date) or come up with your own transformations, which could
take a lot of research and still not reflect what mappers are doing.

If I understand what Steve is talking about, he wants a way for mappers
to *document* what they think the equivalences are between tags. So that
would be the source material you'd plug into TagTransform.

For what it's worth, I think that's the wrong way of going about it. I
think multiple descriptions of the same tag in different locales is the
way to go.

-- 
Jonathan (Jonobennett)