[OSM-talk] Suggestion: fallback tag

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 17:32:14 GMT 2009


2009/12/18 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
> Honestly, I don't see the harm in having lots of tags that everyone else can
> happily ignore.  At least, not when they're added by hand.  The only real
> harm is a small fraction of space in the database.  When it comes to massive
> imports (tiger:*=*) or editor generated tags (created_by), yeah, it wastes
> enough space (and therefore processing time) to cause some harm.  But the
> 1000 or so "fallback" tags you add to the database isn't going to really
> harm anyone.

Except those tags are being removed as much as possible to reduce over
heads... :)




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