On 7 Mar 2010, at 12:17 , Pieren wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Apollinaris Schoell <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> an average newbie mapper should be able to understand a tag without reading 
> tons of docu.
> Josm, Potlatch support templates and could fill in the default values to make 
> mapping easy. 
> 
> 
> I'm really irritated by such remarks. Your are also maybe one of the "is_in" 
> tag supporters because, hey, how can a simple tool find if an element is 
> inside a polygone or not. Asking people to put on all roads the ten or twenty 
> attributs making everyone happy like maxpeed, minspeed, averagespeed, 
> recommended_speed, blind_in_one_eye_drivers_speed, width, noexit, maxheight 
> is simply unrealistic, makes perhaps some lazy developers happy but is 
> definitely not making mapping easy.
> Let the software do the boring and repetitive work for humans and not the 
> opposite.
> 

what is your point here? where did you read the I am a is_in supporter? I am 
not at all. and where did you read the let's put all available tags on all 
object? 
let the software … that's exactly what I said in different wording

read what others write and not more and not less. 


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