Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: Peteris Krisjanis [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 28 August 2009 12:44 > To: Alex Mauer > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism > > I second option that highway tag isn't used for physical purposes. > Physical status of road *can* define it's importance (legal > or subjective), and I think there is where disagreement is. > > More or less comon practice is to follow some kind of > rules/laws when tagging roads. But it is also clear that it > won't work for all 100%, there will be small perntage when > road shall be tagged by user's judgement. What I think that > user should have very clear guidelines how to act in scenario > like that. For example, in my country there were discussions > how to tag backstreet streets. I was thinking about > living_street, but there were arguments, that "Living street" > ("Dzīvojama zona" here) is legal term and there is special > sign which indicates start or finish of such zone. > > However, after careful vetting, one of us found that law > already says what I have suspected - backstreet streets are > living streets by definition.
The law may say that in ?Poland? (apologies if I've guessed the wrong Slavic language) - but I don't think it does in - for example - England. Here, I have hardly ever - if ever - seen a 'living street' - at least as I understand the wiki definition. I tend to use =residential for the backstreets (assuming they have vehicular access). Am I wrong? Am I alone in this? > So I think wiki must have clear rules how to act when > highway's importance status is not known and trust people > instincts - but in same time, user should investigate > situation before doing so. Agree with this - whether or not "importance" is the criterion! > Cheers, > Peteris. > > 2009/8/28 Alex Mauer <[email protected]>: > > On 08/28/2009 03:46 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: > >> If dieterdriest has found a number of people who've been > ignoring the > >> definition, > > > > Nobody (that I know of) has been ignoring the definition. > It's just > > that the definitions didn't match the top-leveldescription. > *None* of > > the definitions of the highway values has ever described > the physical > > characteristics of the road, apart from motorway in a very > limited sense. > > > > -Alex Mauer "hawke" > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > > > > -- > mortigi tempo > Pēteris Krišjānis > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
