On 13/08/2009, at 10.20, Roy Wallace wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Morten > Kjeldgaard<m...@bioxray.au.dk> wrote: >> >> I think it is time to separate tagging of traffic laws into a >> separate >> namespace from purely geographical map features. The information is >> useful, but the current concept of OSM tagging is not designed to >> deal >> with it in a systematic manner. > > Can you expand on "separate namespace"? Without a full new proposal, > the "current concept of OSM tagging" is all we have to work with right > now, and the issue is choosing appropriate tags and tagging schemes. > Which do you think more appropriately "separates" legal issues from > geographical map features, the highway=path or > highway=footway/cycleway scheme?
Sure. By "namespace" I mean something like the Karlsruhe meeting introduced with the addr:* family of tags. In this example, "addr" would be the namespace. My experience with OSM is too short (I'm a newbie :-)) to actually come up with a proposal on how to separate out the judicial circumstances from the map features; I suppose a tag family called "law:*" would be appropriate on highways to specify trafic rules (including whether you can travel by foot on a cycleway). Following the thought of namespaces, the classical geographical features might be transitioned to a geo:* namespace. Cheers, _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk