On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Karl Newman wrote: > >> > I think the "obvious" thing is to quit splitting ways just because > >> > there's a bridge or the speed limit changed... IMHO, the only reason > to > >> > split ways is if the name changes or if the major type changes. > >> > >> Er, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not possible to apply a tag to > >> only part of a way. So if the speed limit or anything else changes, you > >> can't have a continuous way if you want to tag correctly. > >> > >> Gerv > > > > I was thinking about this (not my proposal, but I like the idea): > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Segmented_Tag > > > > > Personally I classify that as more complicated, more surprise, and > with the added danger of hiding information. It might work with very > good editor support, but given how long we had segments, and how the > interface for figuring out them was never really fixed, my hopes > wouldn't be too high. I think fixing the renderers for this is much > more preferable (rather than fixing the renderers to cope with these > fake segments.. which doesn't sound too fun actually). > > Dave > It's not just a rendering issue, although that's the topic of discussion. It makes it much easier for editing and later processing (it's easy to split a way, not as easy to recombine it). Currently, if you want to add or modify a tag on a long way, you have to click on each section to change the tag. In the degenerate case, you'd click on every single segment. I realize it would require good editor support, but it's disheartening to see the "we've always done it that way; why should we change?" crowd coming out already on a project this young. Karl
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