Hi Ben, Am Freitag, 7. November 2008 schrieben Sie: > 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.
Good point. But I am wondering how often that happens. How many of these rule changes do you remember in the past for your country which would have affected osm tagging heavily? > 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). I am hesitant with different definitions/defaults in the meantime. I could imaging that a map in the future allows beyond showing the rendered data to let me see all tags on a way. If I travel into another country, it is a nightmare to read just plain tags (not talking about editing....). Greetings, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Lärchenstr. 6 D-72135 Dettenhausen 07157-734133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
