Hi all, I haven't abandoned this thread or thinking about it. It has just taken me a while to read through all the diary comments + what is being said in this thread. I intend to follow up with another diary post where I try to collect this smart crowd's thoughts and suggestions, but it will probably not until after State of the Map US that I get to this.
In the mean time, I decided to test some of the ideas posted here on a real case: The part of Michigan SR 10 northwest of the I-696 interchange: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/252973#map=13/42.5132/-83.3168 Since 1) this road does not seem to serve an important connecting role in the long distance road network 2) the density of abutters and related driveway / parking exits I judged a downgrade warranted. Please discuss here or on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/52903464 . On the topic of tagging for the renderer, two things: 1) A US-specific rendering would be really neat 2) Trunk 'appendices' like the one I just downgraded do make rendering at low zooms tricky -- you end up with short segments that seem to end in nothing. Martijn On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> writes: > > > Perhaps we could reach consensus more easily if we were > > to first try to agree that the goal is to tag both physical character > > and regional importance, and recognize that the two serve > > different needs, and are (in the US) often grossly mismatched? > > Then the discussion could revolve around the question of what > > tagging is for physical character, what tagging is for regional > > significance, and what are objective criteria for assessing > > significance. (It's somewhat subjective, and therefore > > contrary to the OSM spirit of "tag what is visible only on the > > ground", but it's so necessary to getting mapping and routing > > right that I think we have to grasp that particular bull by > > the horns.) > > I think that would be a great step forward. > > The elephant in the room, though, is that the behavior of the default > render is considered extremely important, and I think a lot of the > debate is at least somewhat tied to controlling how that comes out. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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