[OSM-talk] Some question about OSM

[Andy Robinson]

Joerg Ostertag wrote:
>Sent: 30 June 2006 11:32
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Some question about OSM
>
>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.

But remember that when you do this you may be changing someone else's edits
and they may be relying on what they entered originally.

So although edits can in theory be rolled back at the server end there is no
way to do this as a user yet.

>
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Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk