On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Tobias Knerr<o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote: > David Earl wrote: > > If "cycleway" does mean something different in Germany than it means in > UK, why do we try to use the same tag/value in the first place? Why > don't we use, e.g., "Radweg" for Germany? (Or differentiate with > prefixes or something like that where different nations use the same > language?)
"Differentiate with prefixes"? Messy... If "cycleway" means "A" in Germany and "B" somewhere else, then cycleway is not a good tag. Instead, we should explicitly tag "A" where it applies and tag "B" where it applies. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
