[OSM-dev] project idea

[Peter Körner]

Graham Jones schrieb:
> 
> Thomas,
> I think this suggestion is essentially to provide a 'default' set of 
> tags for ways depending on where the way is.
> If the tag is not explicitly included in the way, the API will return 
> the default?
> 
> I can not help with the technical aspects of this, but it sounds like a 
> fair suggestion for a project working on extending the API - can someone 
> that knows about the API code comment?
Please don't put it in the API. The API and the Planet-Dumper and all 
server-side tools out there just should show what's in the database -- 
not more, not less.

For me this sounds like a feature for a client library, that can be 
plugged in or out. This Plugin for this client lib could (!) use the 
rules from some server but could also use rules locally stored (eg. when 
in offline mode on some navigation device)

Maybe some parts of the JOSM-Code could be used as a basis for this.

Peter