> There's no observation that will tell you whether a road is primary or > secondary.
Agreed. There is no observation that will tell you whether a road is more important than another road that is not where you are. But you can identify physical characteristics. A lot of these observations will lead to a coherent whole. > Tagging railway=rail for a pair of rails rather than mapping each rail > separately and using rail=steel is tagging for the renderer. It's also > tagging correctly, as would be the rail=steel method. On the ground, I can see a pair of railroad tracks. I can't see a regional network of roads. > What you mean is that it can transcend usefulness and become a sea of > unclassified roads. Gotcha. Your usefulness <> my usefulness. Therefore, I'm advocating objectivity vs subjectivity. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
