[OSM-talk] Numbers and i18n
Joerg Ostertag
openstreetmap at ostertag.name
Mon Jul 31 07:21:49 BST 2006
On Monday 31 July 2006 07:35, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Andrew Loughhead wrote:
> > For me one difficulty, which I see as a barrier to entry, is the
> > tag system. There was a really good post a couple of months ago
> > explaining the UK etymology of "highway". So it now kind of
> > makes sense to me that tags like highway=footpath exist.
>
> Since we now have a complete mess with some highway=footpath and
> some class=motorway, that needs to be cleaned up anyway, perhaps
> this is a good time to introduce numbers instead? If the database
> only stored type=14, then the user interface could show this as
> Motorway, Autostrada or Highway, depending on the user's preferred
> language (en.UK, it, or en.US).
Sounds like a nice idea to me. But we would need some kind of central XML File
coming with the introduction of this tag. Something like:
...
<segment type=1>
<naming lang=en name=Motorway>
<naming lang=en_US name=Highway>
<naming lang=de name=Autobahn>
<rendering color= linewidth= framing_width=... framing_color=
dashes=0:0>
<visibility zoom_min=1000 zoom_max=10000000>
</segment>
<segment type=2>
<naming lang=de name=Bundesstrasse>
...
</segment>
This would enable us to keep these in sync on all editors and renderers.
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Jörg Ostertag (München)
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