On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anthony (and others), what did you think of my proposal from two days >> ago?: >> >> highway=path (deprecate footway and cycleway!!) >> *:legal=yes/no (e.g. bicycle:legal=* - for those who want to map the law) >> *:signed=yes/no (e.g. bicycle:signed=* - for those who want to map >> what's on the ground) >> *:suitable=yes/no (e.g. bicycle:signed=* - for those who want to map >> suitability) >> designation=* (official classification, i.e. read from a legal document) > > Honestly, I don't know. It sounds like an acceptable way to punt the issue, > so at least we're not arguing about it any more. And maybe once we tag this > way for a while we can run an analysis of the tags and come up with > something better?
Yup, exactly, there's always room for future revision *as long as* the tags that are used in the meantime have a single consistent meaning per tag. That's what I'm going for here. > I'm assuming "signed" includes things that aren't strictly signs, like > ground paint. Yep, a sign painted on the ground is still a sign. I think "sign" is fairly plain english... > And legal, perhaps, should be "unsigned", because signs also > represent the law (though I wouldn't oppose if you'd rather just call it > "legal"). Hmm good point, but I think "legal" is more appropriate than "unsigned". The tag "*:legal" would simply be available to mappers who want to make an assertion about the law. They should then indicate their source using "source:*:legal=*". > I don't know. I'd like to hear others pick it apart before I decide. > Ideally, I'd like to see the laws and signs of a dozen or two jurisdictions > (on various continents) as well. I think this would work for Florida, but > *:legal=yes/no is not something I'd ever personally tag (I think I'd have to > tag just about everything with a yes); and *:suitable=yes/no is also > something I wouldn't personally ever tag (as I believe it's just too > ambiguous). But if it makes pretty much everyone happy, let's go for it. Exactly what I'm going for - allowing everyone to map the information they want to map, without "mashing" complicated and variable information into a single highway=* tag. :) (FWIW, in Australia I'd never use *:legal or *:suitable either :P) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
