On 01/03/2011 17:55, Andrew wrote:
The great strength of OSM is that it can be a platform for many (and hopefully
more to come) applications written by people all round the world.
Country-specific tagging guidelines make it more difficult to share applications
with the rest of the world.
"Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do".
Only there are, and in England & Wales we have footpaths, bridleways,
restricted byways, byways and maybe some other weird stuff. It's
important to collect those details and render them for UK maps. Hence
it's necessary to have country-specific guidelines to specify how to
capture that information.
What we should be striving for is a basic set of tags which are
understood internationality, plus a local set of guidelines which allow
us to add our country-specific details.
Isn't that one of the things the "new" guidelines are trying to achieve,
by separating the physical information from the access rules?
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