2010/12/30 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Nic Roets <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know it may look like a lot of work adding all the no_left_turns, but it's >> the right way. > > I have to disagree. OSM happens to have started in the UK, but that > doesn't mean that UK defaults make sense everywhere.
I agree with Nic. AFAIK there are no defaults in OSM, not UK ones, and not others. Any not given Information is simply not yet entered. > I think we definitely need to define defaults that make sense for each > country, and formalise this in some way. Preferably in the database, > perhaps as tags on the country boundary: "default:no_left_turn=yes" or > something. this makes evaluation immensely complicated. As of now, it would simply break routing as long as this is not implemented. >> 3. Tourists who map in Argentina may not do the right thing. > > It's far more important that people who live in the country have tags > that are easy to use and make sense for them. Just witness the endless > confusion and debates that (UK-specific) tags like > "highway=unclassified" and "highway=cycleway" have caused for the rest > of the world. have they? I doubt that the problem came from UK-specificy, mostly it came from users ignoring the wiki or asuming "defaults" that weren't actually documented or missleading or underspecified wiki definitions. > I'm actually starting to think it would make more sense for each local > community to map using their own tag schema, and then to define > cross-walks to allow the communities to join up. I'd say this is another project, not OSM. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
