[OSM-talk] Aussie tagging

[OJW]

On Sunday 30 July 2006 18:40, Dean Earley wrote:
> > 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.

Not if that data is stored in a database and used to auto-generate 
configuration files for whichever renderer you are using (with filters for 
the way types or languages you're interested in rendering)

You're not suggesting we stick with the current system of defining map 
features on the wiki, then manually editing osmarender.xsl to get the tags we 
want to render in the colours we like?