Obviously, each country has it's own set of rules for some flavours of ways. Look at them as a basket filled with rights and physical variations.
I have the idea of a 'stylesheet"-like function: define several baskets for international use and fill them with adequate tags for each country, addressed by the way's location (right/left of the country border) Then you only have to fill a basket once per country and you can use the same basket in every country, or at least in lots of them. ex: a track in Norway surely means something different than in Niger. Yet, it is a track in both countries. The same applies to paths without traffic signs. I see the need for some additional API functions. The current solution is, simply said, far too abstract and too complicated. It spoils the fun off mapping. I don't think 5,000 active mappers are enough to make a world map. But lots of them seem to think it's okay to scare potential newbies away. til next, Thomas -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:13:36 -0500 > Von: Alex Mauer <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [OSM-newbies] cycle map rendering > On 09/15/2009 05:31 PM, Thomas Meller wrote: > > > 'Widmen' does not exactly mean 'bestimmen', but it's really close. > > You could write books about such things if you're a linguist. > > So, “close enough” in this case, I guess. > > > You can create whole lots of permutations by using the foot=, bicycle= > ... and access= tags. To be honest, I do not think this is a recipe for > success. > > There are (ideally) as many permutations of access-family tags as there > are meanings for signs indicating route permissions. This is what is > needed in order to describe the permissions along any given route. > > > Why do we have a motorway-type? > > Couldn't we use 'highway=way' and 'motor=designated' > > To describe the permissions/laws, and get some workable routing, sure. > (You’d also need an “access=no” tag). > > But there are other things to take into consideration. Some people call > it “loose description of physical structure”, others call it > “relative > importance” and recognize that common relative importance will reflect a > common physical structure. > > For paths, there is no physical difference, or difference in importance > between a “bike path” and a “foot path” – it’s only a > difference in > permissions. Thus, the same highway tag can be used for each. > > > You see, I am not content with the current solution. > > Where is the current solution inadequate? What do you propose instead? > > –Alex Mauer “hawke” > -- http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.172&lon=7.4395&zoom=14&layers=0B00FTFTT&mlat=47.16677&mlon=7.43513 Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
