Hi Colin, Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012, 20:08:01 schrieb Colin Smale: > I don't understand why emergency vehicles are so important in this > discussion. In the first place they have wide-ranging exemptions from > traffic rules, which (let's be honest) we are never going to tag in OSM. > Secondly they are never going to be relying on OSM data (or indeed any > normal sat-nav) for lane-precise routing. They are trained to use their > eyes and brains to make split-second decisions on what is safe and an > acceptable risk under the circumstances of that moment. Thirdly, they > will be about 0.0000000001% of the potential users of OSM data - why > should we compromise "service" to the vast majority of real users for > the hypothetical benefit of the very few.
I fully agree with you; if we were going to map for emergency vehicles, we'd probably have to add oneway:conditional = no @ emergency for almost all oneway roads first. Eckhart _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
