Good suggestion. How about provisional instead of special? On Nov 25, 2011 12:17 PM, "Stephen Hope" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can see both sides of the argument. We don't want too much > proliferation of special road types - we already have ice roads, now > tidal is suggested, there could easily be dry weather only (or > not-monsoon only), 4wd only, summer only, etc. How far do we want to > take this? > > On the other hand, we don't want dumb renderers treating these as > ordinary roads by mistake. They can of course do it on purpose, if > they wish. > > If we do want to separate them out, my suggestion is to use a single > road type tag to indicate one of these special roads - > highway=special_road (and maybe highway=special_path). Then extra > tagging to differentiate them (special_type=ice_road/tidal/etc). This > way we separate them out from the normal roads, if we think that's > important, but don't create too many extra main tags. And a renderer > can treat these as a group for special display, without having to know > about the specific road types. > > Stephen > > On 25 November 2011 09:01, Gary Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: > > From a hikers point of view I'd like to see some differentiation of tide > > affected ways. There's a number of tracks I didn't put on the map > because I > > wasn't sure the tidal info placed in side tags would get to rendered. > Use of > > difficulty scales doesn't quite warn someone either. I know given the > > current state of the map it can't be relied on for hiking. But one would > > hope it was heading in that direction. Though I dislike 4 wheel drivers > > stuffing up the landscape - it exists and it's requirements should be > mapped > > where it is allowed. > > > > Gary > > > > P.S. > > > > As an australian english speaker 'tidal' works well for me > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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