[OSM-talk] Aussie tagging

Dean Earley dean at earlsoft.co.uk
Sun Jul 30 18:40:50 BST 2006


> p.s. presumably having a set of map features for each country means that we 
> automatically get the localised colour schemes by using (e.g.) rue=autoroute 
> in one area and highway=motorway in another

As I've stated before, I think this is a VERY bad idea as it means that
EVERY renderer/processor needs to know about EVERY language to use the
data sensibly and uniformly.
This is a LOT of duplicated data.

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