* Brad Neuhauser <[email protected]> [2010-10-15 11:00 -0500]:
Nice timing. :) > That said, is there any chance the US community can find some agreement > about highway tagging? I think so. I hope to get some good discussion on my email. > But seriously, it seems like we need some sort of structured process for a > group to look at the options, find compromises, make a decision, and then > have a uniform scheme for US roads across the wiki (and hopefully the data > will follow...). I think this gets into areas of a little more philosophical nature. The obvious group to spearhead this sort of thing is the newly-formed OSMF US chapter. You'd need people to volunteer to do the work, though, and I suspect any group formed for this sort of thing would spend a lot of time dealing with conflicts between mappers (I understand beinf on the OSMF Data Working Group is a pretty draining task). > What has happened up to now with wiki proposals on different pages and > email discussions hasn't resolved the issue for whatever reason. I think it's because the wiki is contradictory on or doesn't mention a lot of topics and the data is even more contradictory. What I'd like to do (as I mentioned in my other email) is get a consensus, put that in the wiki (I've compiled a list of pages that set guidelines for tagging these things), and, ideally, update the data to match the consensus. The last is important because new mappers will absolutely be looking at the data we have and consensus doesn't mean anything if the data doesn't reflect it. -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- Oh, a sarcasm detector. *That's* useful. -- Comic Book Guy, "The Simpsons" ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
