OK, I see the need for a new way to tag roads. But can you tell us how you would address this need? Give that baby a name. Or document a sketch on your user page and post a referral. And maybe the newbies list is not the right place for such a discussion?
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:25:43 -0700 > Von: James Ewen <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads? > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Peter Childs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I the road is the main road to a settlement, of more than say 50 > > people its probably a terirary road, (or even hight grade) no matter > > what its made out of. > > Again, these are forestry roads out in the bush used to access > resource based sites. No people for miles around except those engaged > in work related to the industry. > > There are many roads around my area that connect the City of Edmonton > (pop >500,000) with St. Albert (pop >50,000), but I would not > automatically tag those as tertiary or higher simply based on the > population of the two communities that they join. Tagging the roads > between these cities has been done based on the type of road, and it's > design. > > I want to do the same with the private roads out in the bush, tagging > the higher grade roads designed to carry larger loads at higher speeds > at a higher level than the smaller roads or tracks through the bush. > > I know I can tag anything any way I like, but the basic fundamentals > of this discussion are to try and come up with a universal consensus > so that the information stored in the map database is universally > understood. One should not have to change their expectations about > what the information is trying to convey as they move from one area of > the map data to the next. > > James > VE6SRV > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies -- 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 3.5 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
