[OSM-talk] Numbers and i18n

[Etienne]

On 7/31/06, Joerg Ostertag <openstreetmap at ostertag.name> wrote:
>
> 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.


motorway != autobahn != freeway

For some purposes they can be treated in the same way, but for many purposes
they are different.

Etienne



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