On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:32 AM, David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote: > On 18/10/2009 12:01, John Smith wrote: >> That's a good point, having some kind of API for tags would make it >> possible to have translations with very little extra effort from a >> programming point of view. > > Indeed. See my message from earlier this month: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-October/043340.html
I'd go further than that, and only allow tags marked as "experimental" (for instance by prepending "X-") to be used without an open discussion and approval by a team of experts. There are some really ugly inconsistencies in the OSM tagging scheme, and without expert help these inconsistencies are going to get worse and worse. And that only gets us to the point where we can tackle the bigger and more difficult problem. OSM is doing something that no one in the world has ever really done - combining all the open content geographical data ever produced into "one GIS to rule them all". _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
