[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Lars Francke <lars.francke at gmail.com>wrote:

> > I suggest that API 0.8 would specify that any values in the database be
> > stored in some appropriate canonical form, with a flag to say if it is
> > naturally imperial or naturally metric. So heights and widths would be
> > stored (say) in integer millimetres or integer inches with a one-bit
> > flag to say which it is, and speed limits would be stored in integer
> > km/h or integer mph with a one-bit flag to say which it is. The API call
> > to obtain these values would have a parameter to say whether the user
> > wants metric, imperial or "how-it-was-specified".
>
> I am willing to bet any amount that this is not going to happen as was
> discussed on this and other mailing lists literally hundreds of time.
>
> Tags are free-form and you just have to take care to interpret the
> data properly. Yes it can be ambiguous but then you can just fix the
> data or ignore it.
> In your special case we should tag what's "on the sign" whatever unit
> that's in.
>


Well, I want to point out that introducing some of the semweb technologies
would allow for people to mark up their tags and create schemas for them.

http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/

mike
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