On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Douglas Musaazi <[email protected]> wrote: > The links for tagging, naming features, and the wiki are detailed enough and > have most of the information that any user might be interested in, and i had > a thought that some features could have more priority than others to map to > OSM.
This is subjective, as I'll demonstrate below. > For example Schools, Health centers, Roads, Landuse, businesses, > housing, as the list continues, such that the wiki has features with the > most priority that are common and relevant atleast in every country. If you ask the various OSM contributors what features they are most interested in, the list will vary greatly. An extreme example of this is one young German contributor who maps the electricity grid, noting the company, voltage, cycles, etc. of each line. He doesn't seem to care much about roads, or schools, but he's very interested in utility polls. I don't care that much about schools- I'm not a student nor do I have children. It's a low priority to me, but I am quite interested in sidewalks. I like to know which streets are pedestrian friendly and which aren't. And Landuse, I think is largely used improperly (a topic for another thread). OSM provides tagging guidelines via the wiki, and while some are more globally accepted than others (and will be rendered and put in editors) for the most part, tagging guidlines are descriptive rather than prescriptive. If you go off and invent your own, it's less likely to be used by others, but for the most part, what works in OSM is that is in use, rather than some official guideline handed down from above. Therefore we let users map what they feel is important to them, and don't impose external priorities. - Serge _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
