Hi, Could you please clarify - have the underlying tags and values themselves changed, or just their descriptions/UI? It sounds like the latter to me from your response. The former would be bad, the latter is something we could/should adapt to.
And yes, "unclassified" does confuse people, but it's something they'll be exposed to and should be explained sooner or later anyway? Don't have a laptop at hand, but is the underlying tag value still visible in iD? I'm hoping this has been discussed, but wouldn't a description like "Minor (unclassified)" be an option? Best, Paul On Mar 5, 2016 12:41 PM, "Richard Fairhurst" <[email protected]> wrote: > Suzan Reed wrote: > > Who changed the tags? How do we get them changed back > > so they match JOSM and all the information about OSM and HOT? > > [...] > > The new tags (minor road etc.) do not match any of the Wikis, learning > > tools in HOT or OSM. > > Oh yes they do. > > highway=unclassified _means_ a minor road. It has always meant a minor > road. > Ever since the highway tagging scheme was invented by Andy Robinson in > 2006. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway > "minor roads of a lower classification than tertiary" > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified > "The tag highway=unclassified is used for minor public roads" > > The word "unclassified" comes from the British road system, as do the other > values, "motorway", "trunk", "primary" and "secondary". The choice of word > was unfortunate in retrospect: newcomers often think that it means "a road > where I don't know the classification" (for which the correct tag is > highway=road), and I believe this has recently been observed at Missing > Maps > events. Ten years on it's not realistic to change the raw tag value, but > that's why user-friendly editors such as iD and Potlatch have descriptive > presets rather than simply presenting raw tags. > > If iD moving to a more descriptive preset name has made HOT documentation > out-of-date, you need to change the HOT documentation. Of course, iD is > open > source so you always have the alternative of hosting a forked version as > well. > > Richard > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Difficulty-in-communicating-with-iD-users-tp5869083p5869103.html > Sent from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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