Am 01.05.2011 um 15:13 schrieb Stefan Bethke: > Am 01.05.2011 um 13:14 schrieb Sebastian Hohmann: > >> Am 29.04.2011 22:18, schrieb Stefan Bethke: >>> It appears that people have been using "car" as a key for this >>> purpose. Should I use that, and add an appropriate entry below >>> motorcar=*? >>> >> >> There is clearly a key needed for this class of vehicles, so why not just >> use "car". > > Martin thinks, and I kinda agree, that "motorcar" and "car" would be > confusing. > > I think there's three potential ways forward: > > o Change the meaning of "motorcar" to only refer to cars, not trucks, > busses, etc. This would require a new tag for all double tracked motorized > vehicles to be introduced. "motorcar" has been used over 200,000 times, so > this would cause some confusion. > > o Introduce a new tag for "two-tracked, small passenger vehicles". "car" > would seem a natural fit, except for the potential confusion with "motorcar" > > o Deprecate "motorcar" and introduce two new tags for "double tracked > motorized vehicles" and "two-tracked, small passenger vehicles". It is not > obvious to me what these tags should be called to avoid confusion.
I've summarized the discussion in a proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Car_access_tag Stefan -- Stefan Bethke <[email protected]> Fon +49 151 14070811 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
