Gervase Markham wrote: >Sent: 28 February 2008 3:53 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK! > >Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: >> That's the point I'm trying to make really. We need to learn to live with >> all the potential duplication and less than perfect tag data simply >because >> that's what OSM is. > >But surely the point is that we don't have to "learn to live" with >anything less than perfect, because we can just fix it. _That's_ what >OSM is.
I totally agree. In the longer term that's what I would expect. But there is a potentially long interim that is a dataset that is a made up of all sorts. > >All Lester is asking for is an unambiguous definition of what best >practice is, so that people can know what to do and renderers know what >they _have_ to support. He's not suggesting we send the heavies round to >the house of anyone who doesn't follow it. > Also agreed A best practice is a good thing provided its really straight forward and simple and doesn't become a barrier in itself. >> Anything otherwise just places restrictions on >> contributors and potentially turns people away from contributing data. >When >> the world is effectively complete we may be turning our discussions more >to >> making the data set conform somewhat better because that will help users >of >> the data. But we have a very long way to go before we reach that point. > >Why wait so long to define best practice? We're just storing up work for >ourselves later. When you map an area, it's just as much effort to use >system A as system B; but if 50% of mappers are using system A and 50% >are using system B, then you've just created a lot of unnecessary work >which could have been reduced by better communication. We each map in different ways and have a different focus and interests. I don't think there is one solution to fit all, so easier to work around the limitations than to try to be too heavy handed. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
