Darrin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What you are essentially saying is that references mean nothing (despite > Ian's statement to the contrary) and it should all be based on what the > most assertive person in the city thinks is right I suppose? Brent and I had this sort of "discussion" a little while back. My position was that unambiguous works best, and best to be based on solely on references, otherwise we would end up with too many subjective opinions on roads, leading to frequent changes leading to inconveniencies etc. I suggested we use the future alphanumeric naming for NSW as a basis for tagging. Ultimately, the position I held then was unsustainable overall. I still think that unambiguous reference based systems should be used when they are workable. Your observations have indicated there are large chunks of the country where they are used reasonably effectively. I think Metroads corresponding to trunks in Sydney is an example of it working okay. I agree with Liz, that any discussion is good discussion on the mailing list, and best to identify where people have differing view here then have tagging battles in OSM. Hopefully it can lead to improved tagging descriptions on the wiki. Ian. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-au