David Paleino wrote: > Come on, it's like any other relation. If potlatch can't support *ANY* > kind of relation editing, it's not my fault. It's a bug. I don't use > Potlatch, so I can't tell how advanced his support for relations is.
Not good enough. It is incumbent on you, as someone proposing to tell others how to map, that you make sure they _can_ easily map in this way. At the very least, you should have tried to use Potlatch 2 to find out before posting. It would take you about ten seconds. As it happens Potlatch 2 has very very good relations support (and I can say that with impunity because I didn't write that bit!). Relation usage, arguably, only took off in the first place when P1 added relation support, because the UI was so much more immediate and understandable than JOSM's. But, nonetheless, actions have consequences. Pulling schemes out of thin air and pretending they have no connection with the real-world editors, renderers, routers and indexers that people use is one of the reasons why the wiki tag process is so utterly discredited. We _all_ have a responsibility to make OSM editing accessible to newcomers. Some of us are already working flat-out to do so. If you want to "extend" the data model, therefore adding more for newcomers to learn, _you_ need to do your bit to make sure that this won't make OSM more complicated. That might mean talking to the developers of the biggest editors and renderers, that might mean writing some comprehensible beginner-friendly docs, or whatever. But you can't just expect those of us who are already donating vast amounts of time to necessarily indulge you in your tagging whims. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Feature-Proposal-RFC-Sidewalks-as-separate-ways-tp6205524p6207413.html Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
