[OSM-talk] Status of Map Features

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

> My proposal is that editing Map Features be restricted to a core of a
> few editors who take discussion from Proposed Features in order to
> formulate a clearly defined "official" document. They would then make
> this document have version numbers ("releases") with changelogs, so
> it's easy for everyone (editors, people writing/modifying rendering
> software etc) to keep track of updates easily. It may even be better to
> have this not on the wiki, but in a static HTML file somewhere managed
> in subversion. Yes, I volunteer for this task.

I would go one step further. I would like see a master-file. Currently the 
nearest would be the MapFeatures.xml file. This file then can be directly 
used in josm, osmarender, osmpdfatlas, ...
We can expand the format to hold more than the current info. Descriptions, 
Translations, ...
This would be good in other terms too. josm could directly display additional 
info in a popup in case the user is not sure which tags to use.

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Joerg