[OSM-dev] likenesses

[David Lynch]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 06:20, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> 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 think it would be really helpful to bring together the tag definitions
> into one place, *in the database and API itself*. I mean a complete
> schema: the tags, their possible values, their descriptions (in multiple
> languages), their equivalences both in other languages and synonyms,
> their related tags (in essence properties of the main descriptive tag,
> hence oneway=... with highway=...), deprecations and so on.
>

+1

It's possible to have anarchy without chaos.

-- 
David J. Lynch
djlynch at gmail.com