Aun Johnsen <[email protected]> Wrote in message: > I see a lot of usage of the generic tag highway=road, which is meant as a > temporary tag and a ?low level entry tag? for beginners. The problem with > this is that because of its ambiguous meaning, it is impossible for data > consumers to process this correctly. > > i.e., highway=road means anything between a small footway to motorway, so a > routing engine might wrongfully send cars down a set of steps or a hiker up a > motorway > > As described on the proposal page, this tag is meant to be temporary until > more data can be obtained from survey. > > I have now had a few rounds of cleanup of the usage of this tag in Brazil. My > cleanup run last year found highway=road that had been unedited for 3 years, > so hardly temporary. This year I found several highway=road added by armchair > mappers from Europe, and I doubt they ever will travel to the remote areas of > Brazil to correct this. > (...) > In my opinion, a warning about its temporary state and non-capability with > data consumers should be added to the wiki, and it should be removed from the > standard presets of all the common editors. Also editors with validation > functions should give a warning about the existence of this temporary tag so > that it can be dealt with properly by people editing in the areas, and > further QA tools should highlight them as items needing attention. > >
Sadly this issue was closed https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2742 -- Holger ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
