Hi, > AN URGENT NEED in addtion to the hospitals is to clean up the road type > tags to correspond with the humanitarian presets.
Hold it right there! I think there is a limit to just how much OSM will stretch and bend to match the needs of users. OSM is, first and foremost, a world-wide mapping project, and secondly, something that comes in handy in a crisis. OSM is not primarily a crisis mapping system. Crisis or no crisis, we have an established system of mapping roads. Your presets file contains only the types "primary, secondary, tertiary, footway". OSM mappers are used to a more fine-grained approach and I do not think that just because our approach proves too complex for outsiders we should simply discard it. It is ok for newbie mappers to stick to a small number of road types, but your request to "clean up" existing data to only use these four types does cross a border with me. We'll do a lot to make our data usable, but we will not throw half of it away just because you currently don't see use for it. There is a tag transform plugin for OSM. If you want data that uses only four different road types, then we can translate OSM road types to your four types; but I am very much against ignoring established OSM practice just because users cannot be bothered to distinguish a track from a path. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
