[OSM-talk] Aussie tagging

[Dean Earley]

OJW wrote:
> 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)

But then either the generator needs to know about EVERY single renderer 
(regardless of environment) or have a custom app specific script that 
still has to know every single language.

> 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?

No really, just that 20 different tag names (highway, rue, bahn (I don't 
speak German, I guessed), etc..) with 10 different values each meaning 
EXACTLY the same thing is ridiculous.

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