On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do?
Come up with a consistent way to tag roads for the country. Somehow get a consensus from current mappers about how tag US/state/county/whatever highways. Update this page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging and then remove "There is conflicting information on this topic at several places." Specifically, on the Way: ref=??? highway=??? name=??? Add Way to Relation type=route route=road name=??? network=??? state_id=??? ref=??? modifier=??? direction=??? For exit Node: highway=motorway_junction name=??? ref=??? exit_to=??? Once we know how to map what we have, then we can document in the wiki specifically how every numbered road should be documented. > 2) Why should this be done by the local chapter, and not by individual > mappers? Every individual mapper can have their own idea about how these things should be tagged. As it is right now, mappers look at the conflicting information on the wiki and then make an educated decision, only to have someone come in later and change the tags on the roads, often leaving the map in an inconsistent state. I think there may even already be a committee setup to tackle this very issue: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Working_Groups/US_Tagging > 3) Why should this be done by the local chapter and not by the OSMF? Though there may be some global consistency with road tagging, standards need to be established for each country. Road tagging is often influenced by US states making designations and signing each road accordingly. These signs do not necessarily have an international equivalent. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
