On Thursday 06 November 2008, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > JOSM "could" be extended to ask in the install : are you mapping in > > Germany or in Italy ? > > > > If germany, a track could be recorded as : > > highway=track > > motorcar=no > > > > In Italy, a track could be recorded as : > > highway=track > > motocar=yes > > I like this idea of having country specific presets in the editors > instead of having renderers to be country sprecific.
It's way too late for that for tags like highway=track. Access rules are already heavily country dependent (highway=trunk allowing pedestrians and bicycles or not for example; access=destination implying that cyclists and horse drivers always have access in some countries, destination traffic or not). The same with for example default maximum speeds. Tagging these default rules will be a nightmare if it's at some point decided in country X to change the rules. You don't know anymore whether the tag is there because it was added as default from JOSM or another editor, or because it was explicitly signed The way some country specific tags could work is to translate a concept from that country (e.g. an "express road" which may be something completely different in different countries and would need other tags). Greetings Ben _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
