[Tagging] Reviving the conditions debate

Martin Vonwald imagic.osm at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 17:19:40 BST 2012


Am 13.06.2012 um 18:11 schrieb Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl>:

> For some reason everyone seems determined to come up with the most complex system imaginable,

That's simply because everyone has a solution that is better than all other solutions ;-) 

> Let's not look at this as simply a discussion about "access tags", but an opportunity to extend the syntax of the current key-value pair system to include flexible extensibility.

That's also what I hope we can achieve here.


> How about something like access:expr=expression, where the expression is in some simple syntax and can reference pseudo-variables like time, day, weather, weight, height etc. Why not use a javascript-compatible syntax? Or a bit of XML? No point in re-inventing the wheel.

Can you provide one or two examples?

Martin


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