Hi all, Today I saw for the first time on the area I'm contributing a tag called traffic_sign=city_limit. Then I went on the map features and discovered it. Huh, why not... I'm not watching the map features changes since the page length is exceeding 100 meters ... But I'm reading this list and others and never noticed a mention about such a key proposal. Anyway, marking the beginning/end of a town can be helpful because it's usually changing the speedlimit, etc. Then I click on the wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:traffic_sign and then surprise: 1. you have to read carefully at the end of the page or in the discussion tab to see that it is not an "approved" key, it is a "best-practice-idea". Well, that's a new concept. Until now, we had two categories of tags : the ones proposed and discussed on the wiki but never "approved" by a vote or a poll but widely used in the database, the ones discussed and approved, and now, the "best-practice-ideas" discussed and approved by three persons. It's true it's going faster. Or I missed the announcement somewhere on a mailing-list... 2. It says that the main use is for city_limit. Again, why not. But the other examples are very questionable : "traffic_sign=maxspeed:30" or "traffic_sign=DE:239" break some practices we had until now like key=value and not key=key:value or like key:country=value and not key=country:value.
So, any comments about this Best-practice-idea process ? Is it possible to have a real discussion about the examples or is it too late ? Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
