Re: [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-25 Thread Graeme Wilson
I would rather that we don't have non existant roads on OSM. Twenty plus years ago, I heard a comment that maps had deliberate errors in them so that the mapmakers could find if others were copying their work. In my job of driving around Australia checking mobile phone coverage, I am

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-25 Thread John Smith
2009/10/25 Graeme Wilson wandere...@live.com.au: I would rather that we don't have non existant roads on OSM. I'm sure we all have things we dislike about OSM. Twenty plus years ago, I heard a comment that maps had deliberate errors in them so that the mapmakers could find if others were

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-25 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Graeme Wilson wandere...@live.com.au wrote: [cut for brevity] When I first started on OSM, I wanted to have altitude data in with the lat lon info, and was told bluntly that OSM is a street map, not a GIS. We do have altitude now in the Shuttle Radar Topography

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-25 Thread swanilli
I agree with Graeme Wilson. OSM should not include non-existent roads. The only convincing argument I have seen put so far by the minority who want to show them is that it will save other mappers from wasted time. Given that mappers are the minority and people like Graeme in the majority I think

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-25 Thread John Smith
2009/10/26 swanilli swani...@gmail.com: I agree with Graeme Wilson. OSM should not include non-existent roads. The only convincing argument I have seen put so far by the minority who want to show them is that it will save other mappers from wasted time. Given that mappers are the minority and

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-25 Thread swanilli
2009/10/26 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com So far you are the only one suggesting non-existent is unhelpful or ambiguous, please explain how it is either of these things. A browse through the preceding 30 or so entries in this thread will show that this is not the case. However, in an

[talk-au] Vote on highway=nonexistent

2009-10-25 Thread swanilli
The current suggestion in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines is that roads that do not yet exist be tagged highway=nonexistent. There are two key questions to be answered: 1. Should such roads be entered into OSM? 2. If they are to be entered, should they be