[OSM-talk] Disappearing footpaths

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 4/3/07, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> This is one of the major reasons that XML is simply not a sensible storage
> medium ;)
> Scrap the use of full text for all these items and create a simple lookup
> table of values, with sets for each language. The tools then store the number
> and present the user with the currently approved list of values for their
> language.
> Solves a number of problems with one simple step?

Isn't this what the annotation presets are for?

I think JOSM's interface could be inproved in this extent, but I don't
think we should have multiple ways of storing the same information in
the DB.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/