[OSM-newbies] map fearures in XML

[Wim de Vries]

Thanks, but ...
There must be at least a definition of the tags. You cannot output XML if
you do not define which "map feature" corresponds to which XML
element/attribute (e.g. for the .osm output). I am looking for these
definitions.
The dtd says something, but not eg. the element relation "means", "nd".

reg. wim
> not about the mapping features (I assume you mean the different tags)
> itself. And there can't be because you are free to use every tag you
> like. You can tag a road as street=big if you like but chances are
> that you will never see it rendered on a map (at least one you don't
> render yourself).
>
> Your best bet would be this wiki page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features which tries to
> capture the common tags people use (or which they should use). But it
> is often better to just look at Tagwatch
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tagwatch) which analyzes the
> data in OSM and checks which tags people actually use.
>
> This is the DTD for the currently used API but I don't think it is
> what you are looking for:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5/DTD
>
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