> Should we have a page "detailed mapping of roads" or > something similar? Could be useful, imho, for > traffic_calming, service, tracktype and some less used > tags like bus_guideway.
This point was distracted into a do/don't split map features. In my opinion it would be handy to have such a page as suggested and that can exist as well as map features rather than instead of some part of it. I have a number of useful (to me) wiki links in my favourites as well as Map Features, such as Relations/Turn_Restrictions, Key:addr, UK_Countryside_mapping, UK_public_rights_of_way and others. I don’t want bits split off map features which is really just a simple but very handy list of keys (Ctrl-F helps me search for what I want without having to read the whole page), but I'm all for pages giving more detailed information to be available. I suspect I'm one of those who missed the initial vote on smoothness. It is a tag I'd never use, a tag I can't understand how you'd quantify when every tagger may choose a different value, and a tag I therefore see as pointless. I didn't think me never wanting to use it was a good enough reason to vote for a tag. If someone wants to use it then they will whether it is approved or not. Having it documented in the wiki just makes it more likely someone else will also use it. I'm sure I've used tags for items that aren't in the wiki (e.g. amenity=dog_bin which I think was discussed here before). If there is something you feel needs mapping and you can't find a documented tag in the wiki then you will create your own. But I still think smoothness relies too much on subjectivity to ever be useful for anything. Ed _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
