On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Alex Mauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> For one, byway was never proposed or described or otherwise documented, > >> but instead just plopped into map features. > > > > Just like them darn motorways... nobody ever put them to vote, it's > > a shame ;-) > > Except that motorways were there on the very first rev (ok, second) of > Map Features. And they're documented. And conceptually they're not > UK-specific. > > My gripe is that it was put in there with neither discussion nor > description; I never mentioned anything about voting. > > > There are probably a few more millions who know what a byway is. > > In contrast to the generic term "path", a byway is something very > > specific in the UK because it has a legal meaning. > > You are aware that the OSM definitions of things and the UK legal > definitions of things are not always the same, right? In the case of the OSM definition of highway=byway, it corresponds exactly to the UK definition of a byway (or more precisely Byway Open to All Traffic). If it doesn't float your boat (pun intended) then don't use it. 80n > > > -Alex Mauer "hawke" > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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