Dear All, I'm surprised by the panic and outrage I'm hearing in this thread.
I'm not aware of anybody creating an OSM-CA branch of tagging that is incompatible with "community standards". The conversations I've been involved in have been aimed at making the very best interpretation of the GeoBase (etc) data in terms of OSM tagging. Like including attribution, the conversion tool used, the source uuid and using an import_id. Those are all best practises. Keep an eye on those community standards by the way, we keep improving them which means they keep changing. Remember nodes, segments and ways? Then nodes and ways? Then nodes, ways and relations? it's a moving target. Remember the TIGER import? No RoadMatcher there so user contributions were all removed then TIGER dropped in. Things change. Be part of the change. Some of you like ways that extend many intersections because "that's the way I map", please remember that others may like shorter ways. Nobody is forcing you to change your habits. Some of you fear that short ways will look bad on mapnik/osmarender. Remember that the default tiles must be a general purpose rendering. By that very nature some things will look better and some worse. And some things just will not be rendered on a general purpose map at all. And this is where OSM really shines, YOU CAN MAKE IT DO WHAT YOU WANT ON YOUR MAP! Let's look into the renderers in more detail. There may already be an option to render street names only once per n-distance with identically named ways. This is already happening with the shield symbolizer in Mapnik. Also remember that the renderers are improving over time too. We've added push and shove, halos, name along line, inhibit when too long... and dozens (hundreds?) of other improvements in the renderers. But to suggest that the Thing To Do is to combine GeoBase ways, because you like it that way? Surely there are more-productive things that you can do? Add turn restrictions, block addressing, building outlines, or points of interest perhaps? And to delete the GeoBase nids/uuids? Why? Because you don't know what you would do with them? That sounds like vandalism to me. Relax. Join in the upload project, or sit back and watch the fun. Play with the renderers to make things look that way you want them to look, or write a really great route planning and coffee-brewing tool. But don't panic. OpenStreetMap It's fun. It's free. You can help. Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
