Sam Thanks - I don't feel quite so bad now after reading your response ...
Ulf I think Sam makes much the point that I failed to explain properly. Forlåt että jag förstår inte .. (or should that be Entschuldingungen daß ich nicht richtig verstehen habe ... you never know with a googlemail address!) Mike Harris -----Original Message----- From: Sam Vekemans [mailto:acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 February 2009 06:12 To: Ulf Lamping Cc: Mike Harris; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness Ya, im working on the wiki "smoothness=good" Mike was just just giving examples. :-) it should be ready for the peanut gallary in the next few days. Btw: A horse & buggie has wheels. Kids shoes can contain 'healies' (wheels in heal of shoe) ;-) im using the explaination that; "good" is a "subjective adjective" (then giving examples) -and even as a sub:key, (road) 'good' always needs to be further explained based on the context of the description. .... Making this wiki in the most neutral POV -neithor for or against the tag, just explaining what it is. It might also serve as a 'good' template :-) ps, the person who created the tag MUST have been playing 'devils advicate' -fortunatly, it will help further understand the language of 'map features'. :-) happy mapping. Sam On 2/1/09, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Mike Harris schrieb: >> ... And by the way ... Does 'good' mean: > > I guess you want to missunderstand this tag. > >> Good for a motorcar? (I know of local unclassified ("OS yellow >> roads") that cannot be driven except in a 4WD (some appear on my >> TomTom even). >> >> Good for a horse and cart? (All Restricted Byways in England should >> be suitable - but many are not - too narrow or have stiles). > > First of all, as you are talking a lot about horses indicates to me > that you not even have read the proposal page. It explicitly mentions: > "the physical usability of a way for wheeled vehicles" > > Do you know a horse with wheels? Do you know a *walker* with wheels? > >> Good for a horse? (How good a show jumper for those stiles - see >> above?) > > see above > >> Good for a bicycle? (Many bridleways would be fine on a horse and yet >> impossible on a bike - even where bikes are allowed) > > see above > >> Good for a walker? (How fit - what constitutes 'normal' ability? - >> is a stile 'good' or only a kissing-gate?) > > see above > >> ... In short "good" (or "horrible") is almost entirely subjective >> (and also >> language-dependent) and even using a 1-5 scale is still _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
