James Ewen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Kjeldgaard Morten <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You might disagree, but you are also wrong. OSM is a database, not a >> map. It is very important to get features tagged correctly from the >> start. If you don't do it from the beginning, someone else will have >> to come back, notice the error and correct what you've done. That's a >> complete waste of your time, so why participate in the OSM at all? > > In this vein then, why are we tagging the roads incorrectly in North > America? In Canada we do not have a "Motorway" designation, yet there > are many thousands of miles of "Freeway", or "Limited Access Highway" > tagged incorrectly. There's no tag for business frontage roads, those > are mostly tagged as service, but service also is what we have to use > for alleys, a totally different type and class of roadway.
Cultural equivalence, though a frontage road should be tertiary as long as it's got at least a painted centerline... > If we get to the point where anyone adding data to the OSM database > has to become an expert at every feature before they can tag it, then > we will lose most of our support. That's where tagging tools like potlatch and JOSM's presets come in. God knows most of us don't punch every last tag in by hand. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
