On 1 July 2010 18:23, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > nobody will ever need more than 640 kB of RAM ;-)
I assume you are talking about how Yahoo generates WOEs, but I'd love to see anyone that can exceed the capacity of UUIDs :) > sure, there could be ways, but actually I don't see the benefit. I As I said in the email, I don't think this is a good way to do things, I was just pointing out it could be done. > think it's cool that most tags are understandable directly in the xml > without the need for any translation tables. The words might not need translation if you can read english fluently, but without the wiki a lot of tags would be ambiguous depending on your background. The wiki gives a lot more context you can't get just by reading raw values. > hm, I don't believe this, It could be programmed, but unless you know > which number stands for what, this seems to facilitate errors quite a > bit. You could then retranscribe the numbers in the editor into > understandable language for the mapper, but hey, wouldn't that result > in a similar system we already have? Why should then be less > discussion about single words? That was the point that was made, the term soccer would almost never been seen by most end users so this shouldn't really be an issue. > we already do this with presets, and I don't like the concept either > ;-), I'm using the english JOSM version because of this. Part of the > "problem" in this thread derives exactly from this (soccer vs > football). You disagree with the translation someone else made, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad way to do it. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
