[OSM-talk] SteveC should decide
Chris Jones
rollercow at sucs.org
Thu Oct 1 11:00:30 BST 2009
Russ Nelson wrote:
> I'm tired of this silly true/false 1/0 yes/no up/down left/right
> in/out fore/aft port/starboard debate/debacle. It's trivial, it's
> stupid, we could just as easily toss a coin as engage in any rational
> debate about how binary values should be expressed.
>
> This is just wrong. If SteveC says that "mountain=green" means that
> first there is a mountain, and that "mountain=blue" means there is no
> mountain, then damnit, we should do it that way.
>
Don't debate then!
Accept there's more than one true path to tagging enlightenment and get
on with it!
Just build yourself a list of equivalent k=v pairs and use that when you
pre-process to normalise data for your application.
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Chris Jones, SUCS Admin
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