Hi Nelson, Even when you mass migrate to highway=rest_area you cannot find a single of Denmarks most used rest areas as they by definition of the tag cannot be tagged as a rest area. I do see the argument, but you should also be aware that it is a pretty weak one. I've said my part, lets hear others say in it.
Med venlig hilsen Rasmus Vendelboe On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Rasmus Vendelboe > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Probably because it has been cleaned up through Denmark by a single > person? > > I haven't been part in it, but in my humble opinion it is a better > tagging > > scheme, simpler and more inline with osm's taxonomy than > highway=rest_area. > > Highway=rest_area is a weakly described tag, it makes no sense and should > > imho be deprecated. > > I am not saying that it's wrong nor right the way it's represented in > Denmark, but I can see one problem: data consumers will look for > highway=rest_area or highway=services (since they are the most used > tags in the rest of the world). > > Suppose somebody goes to Denmark, using osmand, and tries to locate a > rest area. They won't find. > It won't also be represented in most (if not all) the renderers. > > Again, I am not saying that it's wrong nor that it needs to be > changed, but it has disadvantages while it's not used and while it is > unknown outside Denmark. > > My original message was only to inform that you are using a different > tag to represent the objects. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-dk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-dk >
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