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> On Aug 7, 2015, at 3:59 PM, geow <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Rendering should never rely on assumptions but on physical values

Theres no *physical* value separating a primary, secondary, tertiary, 
unclassified, or service road. I can find one of each that the exact same 
width, surface, smoothness, length, lanes, incline, lighting, poodle=yes - 
everything - here within 5miles of my location. its all about purpose or legal 
definition - So purpose is best - the duckiness. 

Why purposely make tagging non-car ways different and make it massive 
hinderance to new mappers when a single tag could do it? An existing single 
tag! It is a total mystery to me. 


You can tag all of those grade/sac/smoothness attributes on *any* non-carway - 
but the root highway=* tag does more to say what it is than any other tag. Im 
not going to tagging SAC scale on a sidewalk because the tag creators were too 
myopic to make proper tags.  We're trapped in a sea of subtags that pretends to 
define main tags, when they don't. They are *further attributes* of the way. 

The main highway=tag is king. For car and non-car ways. 

Javbw. 
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