Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> writes: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Phil! Gold <phi...@pobox.com> wrote: >> * Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> [2010-10-14 10:47 -0700]: >>> I think you could largely sum up his criticisms in two broad headings: >>> >>> 1. US OSM contributors need to get their shit together >>> 2. European maps don't look like American ones >> >> I'm trying to see what sort of consensus exists on some of the issues from >> 41 latitude's post. I've sent an email to the talk-us list[0] asking for >> feedback and discussion. I encourage anyone who's interested, particulary >> people who map in the US, to contribute to the discussion on that list. >> >> [0]: >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-October/004361.html > > The North American interest in highway signs may be difficult to > understand around the world. If I remember correctly one of our > Euro-colleagues referred to highway shields as looking "a bit naff". > I think that means "good" though. > > So, highways and road culture play a large role in the life of many > North Americans, there are even songs that we know like Route 66, and > Highway 61 that show affection for specific roads. There are others. > Many others. I was surprised to find this list of road songs on the > official US Federal Highway Administration web site. That may help to > define the scope of the interest (problem) for our friends who don't > see the attraction of highway shields. Even the humorless official > bodies in North America like a good road song. > > http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/roadsong.cfm
For better or worse, that made me think of images like http://failblog.org/2008/07/03/sign-design-fail/ Whether it's a good thing or not, we still have to figure out how to tag it. Bear with us. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
