On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am I out of line here? Of course I want to see a globally consistent, useful > database. But ultimately, I want to see the most number of users happy with > their local data. And if that means tags mean something slightly different > in Cambodia than they do in Ireland, then...what was the problem again?
Ok, let me summarise my position, before this thread derails. I think we should aim for a globally consistent database, because 1) I travel a fair bit (I've never been to Bulgaria, but maybe someday soon) 2) I do NOT want to be limited to "Noppia-compatible" routing software if I visit Noppia (etc.) 3) I think it's not that hard to be globally consistent - it just comes at the cost of verbosity (which is cheap) Adding tags that help clarify what I mean does not piss me off. I am quite happy to add direction=clockwise to roundabouts if necessary. Ultimately, why not aim to have direction=* applied to ALL roundabouts? I know you have a different position, which is fine. I'm surprised that you feel "one extra tag is a lot of extra effort" - have you tried various editor presets, auto-complete, selecting multiple entities before applying a tag, etc.? For me, your example of a road tagged with: "bicycle=yes;car=yes;bus=yes;surface=paved;smoothness=5;colour=black;lines=white;parking=parallel;lanes=2" just looks like a very well-mapped road. "Good job", I would say to the mapper, as they were obviously very thorough. Seriously. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
