And description is utterly useless for any kind of automated processing - for example routing.
2015-03-13 18:42 GMT+01:00 Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Felix Hartmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> (e.g. a road with some pottholes described as horrible). >> And with smoothness and other verbal gradings - 10-15% of all ratings >> seem to be way off because the mapper never read/understood that scale. >> This in turn makes it impossible to be used in a map because it is too >> unreliable. >> > > +1 on this. > > The tags are highly unreliable. In part because it's unclear if you are > supposed to tag the *worst spot* (one pothole) > or the *average experience* (potholes every 3 meters)? > > A road of sustained moderate sand might be far worse for some vehicles, > compared to a road with one deep > sand spot. Conversely a deep sand spot might stop certain vehicles that > could readily pass over miles of moderate sand. > > --- > > I think a description is often far more useful to a map reader: > > *description*=Forest road well maintained in summer, but not graded > during winter. Has two stream crossings with 10 inch high rocks, easily > passed on a bicycle or motorbike, but difficult for low clearance vehicles. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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