On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:56 PM, David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> The problem is that it is almost impossible to write, and more importantly, > keep up-to-date a data consumer (like a specialized map of shops, in the > examples people have been talking about) in an anarchic free-for-all where > tags come and go and people invent their own. I think it could improve things if we could have a file of tag synonyms, in a machine-readable format, somewhere on the web site, and provide libraries for parsing and using it, in some widely-used programming languages. I suggest dividing such a file into blocks (e.g. blank line separated stanzas), with each block identifying a context in which it applies (typically country=....); the first block would apply globally. __John _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
