On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Richard Mann < richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've updated the wiki page to try to explain it more clearly. I've > included Martin's paved=yes flag (though personally, I'd probably just > make it clear in the table that some values such as concrete should be > treated as paved) > > Richard > > I think that's really stupid. Again, just to make 0.5% contributors happy, we create a dupplicated tag ... Then wait 2 months and a newcomer will ask "what's the difference between 'surface=paved' and 'paved=yes' ?". Then we will read "hey it's the same difference between 'highway=footway' and 'highway=path + foot=designated'. And someone else will explain "no, no, there is a difference since surface can be more detailed" - "but hey surface is a very old tag and paved is widely used" - "who cares ! run a bot to fix them !" - "but my application will have again to check for another specific value. Why OSM community is not able to limit to amount of identical tags ?" - "hey, it's OSM. 0.5% of big mouths have more power than 99.5% of silent contributors" Pieren
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