[OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> As Kyle Gordon brought up in this thread the issue is that the OSM
> data has both building=yes/no and building=true/false and flickr only
> supports the former.

Yes but OSM data also has 200,000 "building=hut", 25,000 
"building=residential", 20,000 "building=industrial", 10,000 
"building=apartements", 5,000 "building=detached", 3,000 
"building=house", 2,000 "building=garages"... down to a 
"building=bubblehall" and a "building=beehive".

> Dave F. suggested that the OSM database be normalized to just use the
> former because that's simpler.

So what exactly did he want to normalise?

Bye
Frederik