Hi Frederik, Look more carefully. I was just forwarding. I have no opinion on this, except that it looked relevant to OSM-talk.
Jean-Guilhem Frederik Ramm a écrit : > 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
