Re: [OSM-talk] Redefine the highway-key from scratch

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Konrad Skeri wrote: we should redefine the syntax of the highway-tag from scratch. I don't think this is not at all a good idea. This affects on of the basics of mapping OSM and is considered as having an larger impact than inventing a new API. Maybe we should just add more/additional

[OSM-talk] Redefine the highway-key from scratch

2009-08-05 Thread Konrad Skeri
As we probably never can agree on the semantics discussion we should redefine the syntax of the highway-tag from scratch. This will never happen since it's a pita-job to edit the existing data, but here we go: 1. Remove all highway=motorway, trunk, primary, etc. 2. Use highway=road. It's a road!

Re: [OSM-talk] Redefine the highway-key from scratch

2009-08-05 Thread Ed Avis
Konrad Skeri konrad at skeri.com writes: [tagging 'admin_level' of roads instad of residential, unclassified, etc] Use the whole scale and omit levels so that countries with intermediate classifications will have a free number to use. One way of doing this it so use 1...100 and have 1, 10, 20,

Re: [OSM-talk] Redefine the highway-key from scratch

2009-08-05 Thread OJ W
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Konrad Skerikon...@skeri.com wrote: 1. Remove all highway=motorway, trunk, primary, etc. 2. Use highway=road. It's a road! Q) how will we classify each road? A) they will all be named Beverly ___ talk mailing list