[OSM-talk] Status of Map Features

[Andy Robinson]

The tagging scheme I'm working on - not calling it Map_Features next
generation at this point in time ;-) - is xml based. The idea is that it
could be used in the editors and output software (eg Osmarender etc) as well
as being an extensible structure for tagging in its own right.

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
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>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
>Sent: 06 October 2006 1:22 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Status of Map Features
>
>
>> 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.
>
>-
>Joerg
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