Roy Wallace <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Matthias Julius <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 'up/down' is in there to be able to tag an incline where the exact value >> is not known. Adding '_steep' would allow to differentiate a little. >> Of course, what is steep and what is not is subjective - just like >> surface quality. I just don't want to loose any semantics compared to >> the highway=incline tags. > > But that's my point - sure, you don't want to lose "semantics" i.e. > "meaning". But IMHO "steep" is *meaningless*.
Why? It is at least as meaningful as 'smoothness=good|bad|horrible'. > >> Validators could warn about ambiguous incline tags, though. > > Yup I think this is the best solution. Unless, of course, nobody > *wants* to tag incline=* on nodes :) But assuming they do, they should > be able to. Of course, everyone can tag what he wants anyway. The question is what we want to encourage. Matthias _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
