On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Anthony wrote: >>>> >>>> Even then, I have mixed feelings about it, until there's support in >>>> the major editors for downloading and editing subsets of data. > >>> First of all, this would have to be supported by the API as well. And it >>> is >>> always very difficult because "everything's connected". > >> The usual solution is that items in different layers can't be connected, >> right? > > That would be fatal; we do that all the time in OSM. In fact, OSM does not > have different layers in the same way as traditional GISes have - in OSM, > you define your layers when you take data out, instead of when you put data > in.
That's my point though. I'm not sure we should allow "proposed" or "historical" data unless and until OSM supports the features of traditional layers. Perhaps there is a way to be smarter about it (allow links between layers but warn when they are broken), but I'm not so sure about even that. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
