On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:22 PM, monxton <[email protected]> wrote: > So I hope his sense of humour is robust enough for me to > mention that it's 3.5 years since since the schedule for rendering the > National Byway was "this week".
eeek! Let's face it though, in the face of trying to keep the server running under ever-increasing pressures, and dealing with problems and improvements in the cartography that affect the whole planet, it's not hugely surprising that the National Byway hasn't quite bubbled up to the top of my todo list. I mean, the key hasn't been updated in 3.5 years either, and I've never gotten around to documenting my wonderful system for highlighting places that serve fryups, and I think both of those are more important :-) But on the National Byway issue, there are a few fundamental things. I've pretty much settled on not adding any new types of cycle route highlighting, since I think three levels of hierarchy have pretty much proven sufficient in many different countries. I disagree (with Richard) that there's anything fundamentally different between a cycle route of national importance organised by one UK charity as opposed to a cycle route of national importance organised by a different UK charity. However, I'm aware that we are doing lots of non-cyclists a disfavour by classifying the national byway as only being for cycling (with the route=bicycle tag). If we keep the route=bicycle I would suggest network=ncn, name = National Byway and therefore bring it into line with all the other national cycling routes in every other country in OSM. If anyone cares about the differences between a Sustrans route and other routes, then the operator tag would be appropriate. So I expect to render it at some point (still), but it's never really been a great priority for me, and when it does get rendered I'll be treating it the same way as all the other national "cycling" routes[1] around the world. Cheers, Andy [1] I was at a Sustrans rangers meeting once where the big guns were discussing the fact that their network was for both cyclists and walkers, and why did so many people think it was only for cyclists. I laughed slightly and pointed out that they'd called it the "National Cycle Network" and the clue to the cause of the confusion might be in the name. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
