Am 24.03.2013 14:45, schrieb Frederik Ramm: > The way things like this often happen is that someone invents some > kind of "hack" to achieve what they want - for example, it would be > slightly incorrect but possible to place a node at a named > intersection and tag it "place=locality, name=blah blah". This would > be rendered on the map. If it turns out that there's demand for this > kind of information and people start to add it more frequently, > someone would perhaps say "uh guys, place=locality is not really good > for an intersection name, let's make up something better", and things > would run their course.
I can understand that there is a need to first create the data and then look which is the best. But in some cases, I think it is better to create a solution and a recommendation beforehand. The thing is that these features are needed (everyone can see this who takes a look at a Japanese map), and with some planning in before, this would be easier. A well developed solution how this is done can enable everyone to tag the data correctly. If you do a dirty hack, you have to correct everything afterwards again. > > Are you in touch with mappers in Japan or Korea, and if so, what is > their opinion regarding intersection names? Are they waiting for > someone to tell them what to do, or have they invented some kind of > hack to add this (according to you) very important information? If > they haven't, then why not? > I have asked the question on the Japanese mailing list, and there the reply was something like “Yeah, we had the discussion before, and the general opinion was ‘it would be better to have them displayed’”. As to why they are not more eager to have them displayed – I don’t know. Maybe it is a language issue? Still, there is one problem though: I rather get the feeling that if this is not supported on the main map, there will be some forks, where the country specific issues are resolved on a separate page. And I think this is a problem which is really not desirable. Of course, “OSM is only a database, not a map”, but osm.org is de facto the place to go if you want to see the OSM map. If you then have to use tens of different maps for every country, this is not good. And as Martin said: If a project has gained a certain size, it is harder to get suggestions implemented. If a project is small, a small issue will likely be implemented. If it is larger, it is usually considered as not as important. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
