Am 30.04.2011 um 15:10 schrieb Stefan Bethke: > Am 30.04.2011 um 12:10 schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: > >> 2011/4/29 Stefan Bethke <s...@lassitu.de>: >>> It appears that people have been using "car" as a key for this purpose. >>> Should I use that, and add an appropriate entry below motorcar=*? >> >> >> -1 >> IMHO motorcar should be defined as automobile/car, and not be used as >> a generic term including busses, hgv, goods and other. If we had car >> and motorcar parallelly this would create a lot of confusion. > > Then what would a proper classification look like? > > According to tagstat: > Tag Usage > vehicle 22618 > motor_vehicle 42743 > motorcar 209720 > car 1475 > bus 42842 > hgv 45609 > goods 16948 > > To properly represent German law (sign 251 "cars and other multiple tracked > vehicles not allowed") we need a tag for all two-tracked vehicles (currently > "motorcar"), plus we need tag specifically for just cars. > > Redefining the meaing of "motorcar" is sure to cause a lot of confusion. > > Does anyone have a copy of ISO 3833:1977 handy and could enlighten us what > the standard defines as a term for all multitrack vehicles, if any?
And if you feel you need more classifications, here's a Wikipedia article on the EU classification: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/EG-Fahrzeugklasse (seems there's no English version) Stefan -- Stefan Bethke <s...@lassitu.de> Fon +49 151 14070811 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
