On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote:
> My > idea at the moment is that the existing "ref" tag be unambiguously defined > to be a kind of "primary key" and to have alternative tagging for its > apparent value. I expect this may also be the case with road names, and > possibly other attributes as well where there is an opportunity for the > official version to deviate from the apparent/published version. How about > this for a hypothetical link road from the M1 to the M2: > ref=M1 > signed_as:ref=M2 [...] > General purpose renderers (including mkgmap) would give precedence to the > signed_as values for ref and name if they exist. This is completely back-to-front. Whatever reference the mapper sees and the consumer wants to see should be in the ref tag surely? Why would the one that is important 99.99% of the time be bumped to a secondary tag and the main tag taken over for stuff that's honestly not useful? Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
