On 18/09/2013 15:36, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote:
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.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SotM_2010_session:_Tag_Central:_a_Schema_for_OSM
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