On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:19:31 +0000, Emilie Laffray wrote: > On 7 March 2010 10:46, Paul Johnson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >> Perhaps we should be working more towards worldwide consistency. I >> don't know about you, but I don't expect the same map to work >> differently in the UK than it does in Canada, or in Canada differently >> from the US. So why should the same map work differently in Oregon >> than it does New York or Washington? >> >> > I don't know but when I read a map from a different country, I read it > with the new context in mind. Maps are highly contextual piece of works. > I have lived in France, US, UK, and Curacao, and I can assure that if > you expect to give you the same information you are mistaken. Roads that > can be considered primary in Curacao will definitely not looked like the > one you would see in France, etc...
That's true, which makes me wonder if it's time to move primary/secondary/ tertiary from ways highway= tags to route relations (since those three highway tags speak more to the kind of route on the way rather than the way itself). > Everything has to be taken with a pinch of salt. I don't believe in > absolute systems, but in relative systems. > Consistency is a good thing but you have to look on what aspect they > need to be consistent. I'm looking at relative to the rest of the world. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
