I believe that the core tasks of the US Chapter should be 1) to support and help grow the community, and 2) engage with existing and potential professional users to stimulate awareness and adoption. Defining the map itself should not be among them, this is and should always be a community effort, even though it is sometimes a cumbersome process. If you're saying that the Chapter could do something to support reaching a consensus or define the issue more clearly, such as facilitating a working group or a wiki clean-up, I could not agree more. But I don't see the Chapter going in and defining a definitive (is there even such a thing?) tagging scheme for roads. That would have the Chapter claim a mandate that it was never given and would only serve to divide the community rather than strengthening it.
Martijn On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Peter Dobratz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- martijn van exel geospatial omnivore 1109 1st ave #2 salt lake city, ut 84103 801-550-5815 http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
