Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government

2013-05-13 Thread Brett Russell
Hi All As a mad mapper I have been following this debate with interest. I own one of the fast graders. By that a standard family sedan setup for road performance so understand that not all gravel roads are equal. I bushwalk and the access to the walk governs the vehicle we take. I would

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government

2013-05-13 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: But your overall point is surely that as long as we have the basics, if some group of people want the extra information and are willing to gather it, and some other group of people want to use the information and are

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government

2013-05-13 Thread waldo000...@gmail.com
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes people think that it's better to slice up information into lots of little objective facts, like (in the case of mountain bike trails), width, surface, grade, etc, rather than a subjective fact like trail

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government

2013-05-13 Thread David Bannon
I am not sure I agree with you Waldo.. (???). Its useful in my opinion when ever storing data (of any nature) to think about how that data will be used. While we will often find other use cases later on, addressing the primary one is important. I think very few users of map data are

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government

2013-05-13 Thread waldo000...@gmail.com
David, to me your response seems to be mostly in agreement with what I said. On what point, exactly, do you disagree? Do you at least agree that a useful tag is one whose meaning is either 1) immediately obvious (e.g. like width=*) OR 2) clearly/objectively described in the wiki? On Tue, May