[OSM-dev] likenesses

[Dave Stubbs]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:54 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/10/1 David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>:
>> On 01/10/2009 03:25, SteveC wrote:
>>> I want to revive a very old idea - tag equivalences.
>>
>> I would like to go further than Steve proposes, but I understand it is a
>> hard sell to the anarchist wing of OSM while being welcome to the
>> conformist wing. But I really think what I outline below treads a middle
>> way. I'm absolutely not proposing to restrict anyone's freedom to add
>> new tags or values.
>
> I don't see what your persauation has to do with anything, I'm looking
> at this from a practical point of view, it's easier to do translations
> in the editor and then have the editor do the processing into a
> pre-defined set of tags, rather than having 1000s of servers doing the
> translations every time they have to parse the data, that's crazy and
> complete waste of CPU time.
>

That argument is bogus.
It's much easier to do the translations on a couple of servers rather
than make the 100,000's editors more complicated so that they use more
laptop battery and make all the mappers have to go home early.

It's also much easier to make one thing sound better than another if
you put a large number on one side of the equation but don't even
mention a downside to the other.

Dave