[OHM] Historic places versus confidence

[Rob Warren]

I think we don't have choice with the dates tag or else we'll end up  
with a monster database filled with unusable anachronisms. Without  
going off the handle immediately, I like the idea of the API  
validating the data with simple rules: "Must have dates set and/or  
must have documentation".

The nice thing about multiple front-ends / application / clients is  
that we'll be able to enforce standardized tags for things a little  
easier by having the application do it for the user directly.

best,
rhw


On 4-Mar-13, at 10:02 PM, historic-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 18:02:16 -0800
> From: Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org>
> To: mick <bareman at tpg.com.au>
> Cc: historic at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OHM] Historic places versus confidence
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> Ref Mick's last comment - a couple of thoughts / questions:
>
> 1) We will have an opportunity to shape tagging policy a little more
> tightly than the greater OSM tagging canon. I'm looking forward to  
> that.
> Not saying we'll get to the right answer immediately, but we could  
> start
> somewhere & see how it works.
>
> 2) What do people think about eventually enforcing/strongly  
> encouraging use
> of certain tags - e.g. date-related, source, anything else? I'm  
> thinking of
> simple JOSM rules/validations looking for the presence of tags. We  
> could
> also put some rules directly into the API...
>
> - Jeff
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:28 PM, mick <bareman at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 16:07:09 -0400
>> Rob Warren <warren at muninn-project.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'd like to get it to that point, especially in recording the  
>>> changes
>> ...
>>>
>> I agree, we can never envisage the totality of uses for the data  
>> once it
>> is there nor the tools that will be needed. A client/server  
>> capability will
>> go a long way to meeting this challenge.
>>
>> To work effectively tagging will need to be far more consistent and
>> clearer than OSM currently allows.
>>
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