Hi Frederik, Am Freitag, 10. August 2012, 14:46:11 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > Many suggestions in this thread have been made from a programmer > viewpoint. From a programmer viewpoint, in a perfect world where every > software correctly parses these tags, I could take every > > maxspeed=60 > > and change it to > > maxspeed:(0h-24h):(weight<100000tons)=60 > > and it would not make a difference, right? But in practice, this would > likely make the maxspeed information unavailable to the majority of > users who are stuck with clients not having a perfect restriction parser > (and even those that have would probably irritate the user with some > kind of asterisk that says "addidional restrictions apply click here for > details" or so). > > Yes, this is a hypothetical example but I hope it drives home the point > that for the overwhelming number of users, a complex grammar for a > restriction tag is likely *less* useful than "note: lower speed limit at > night" or so - even if the programmer wets his pants about the sheer > beauty and flexibility of the tag he has just defined.
Maybe you should just refrain from participating in the discussion if you have nothing useful to add? Eckhart _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
