[OSM-talk] Some question about OSM

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Friday 30 June 2006 12:23, James Mastros wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:24:48AM +0100, Simon Hewison wrote:
> > Nicola Ranaldo wrote:
> > >*) a stupid question, some segments have k="highway" v="primary", and
> > >others k="class" v="primary"... is it normal?
> >
> > Things are in a state of change at the moment, with some people using
> > highway=primary, and other using class=primary. highway=primary is the
> > newer scheme, but both should be counted as equal at present. It's all
> > down to what editors people are using, and how easy it makes it to define
> > the key/value pairs.
>
> Perhaps we should go ahead and fix this up on the server?  I can understand
> the point of having the server be fairly light in terms of accepting the
> data given to it, but if the class=x scheme can be mapped fairly
> straightforwardly to the x=sub-x scheme, then we can clean up the data on
> the server, and keep the complexity all in one place.

This is no big deal with josm either. 
Just load the area, search for class=xy, edit all found items at once and save 
it again.

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Joerg