2011/4/18 SomeoneElse <[email protected]> > I'm not sure that I understand your problem. Currently when people see > something they decide what to tag it, based on what other people have used > in the past and/or what's documented on the wiki - some people are seeing > things for which they think "foo=bar" is appropriate. Often the choice of > tag is very subjective and far from straightforward. If you haven't been to > the place that they're mapping, how can you say that they're wrong and > you're right? > > Are you trying to create a schema into which all of the "foos" of the world > fit, and impose that on mappers? If so, OSM may not be the project for that > - it's strength is very much that mappers can make things up as they go > along, and tag usage can evolve beyond what a bunch of people at the start > of the project thought was needed. > > If you're coming at this from a data usage perspective, then regardless of > how people map going forward there are an awful lot of "cycleway=track" out > there and you're going to have to either (a) deal with them or (b) do a > large amount of worldwide surveying and remapping. > > Cheers, > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
I'm coming from the mappers side, I am mapping for over a year and have created more than 50.000 nodes. I map on foot, by bike or by car, with walking papers, OSMtracker for android, OpenGpsTracker, bing images, Popp maps (which fall under PD) and I tried other things too. But I also use the data. There is no point in working at the data when you can't use it. A while ago, I was making a route with http://openrouteservice.org/ and I saw that it preferred big roads over quiet ones. When I looked closer and after a lot of thinking, I realised that the data was wrong, or at least ambigue. So I ask how we can make this data less ambigue so that routing services can use it. We should tag for the renderer, we should tag for all data usages. @Nathan: adding bicycle=no to every big road is not really nice, I like to follow the KISS principle. But thanks for the "number of intersections" difference, I never thought about that difference and I will still have to convince myself. To conclude: I don't like change for the sake of change, but sometimes, change has to happen. I wonder if this is a case where we have to change.
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