On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg <sas...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:56 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On 5 May 2010 22:50, Jonas Minnberg <sas...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > * Remove cycleways parallel to other ways and add a cycleway=track to > >> > that > >> > way instead. > >> > >> Is there a good reason you want to reduce information? > > > > Yes, as you may guess from my topic. Removing unnecessary stuff is a good > > thing IMHO. I thought the idea behind cycleway=track and cycleway=lane > was > > to avoid having to draw lots of parallel ways. It avoids clutter on my > > limited resolution GPS. It makes routing easier & faster. And it makes > > things more consistent. > > > > Well, one man's cruft is another man's gold, so objectively you don't > know what is useful and what's not, so it is simply better for > everyone to remove anything what is not correct. I suggest to filter > maps out when exporting them to your GPS instead of removing them from > OSM. Like it or not, micromapping is on the rise and I am quite sure > that we will see routers inteligent enough to make use of this > "uncessary stuff". > > I am talking about either removing incorrect things (things that are not parks, the just looked green when people mapped after satellite imagery without visiting the place) or consolidating information (moving the cycleway into the highway). So OK, I can leave sidewalks (even though to be consistent you should then draw sidewalks next to every street in the city that has them). But what's the problem with aligning POIs to building edges so they don't look like they been randomly thrown out, or removing things that are wrong? A bad compromise would be to leave the park area and retag it as fixme=looked_green_on_satellite or something, but that approach would just leave lots of useless areas... (Note also that I am talking about things in my neighborhood, I know what they look like and where they are). -- Sasq
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