While I agree with Frederik almost completely, the absence of a tagging scheme for conditions will have some unwanted side effects. A current example in my opinion would be this great and completely intuitive n2/n3 tagging that was just invented. It was already documented in the german access article, giving the impression that this is an accepted tag. If we would have a tagging scheme for conditions this could have been prevented.
Martin 2012/8/9 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > Hi, > > > On 08/09/2012 01:41 PM, Eckhart Wörner wrote: >> >> Therefore, I expected that those people who had voted against the >> proposal came up with a well-designed alternative proposal > > > You have to work on your expectations then. Has it occurred to you that some > people don't find extended conditions important enough at all? > > Personally, I think that most of the extended conditions that the proposal > tried to address were not worth having a tagging scheme for; they were stuff > that only a few perfectionists would want to map anyway. And while I am not > against perfectionists mapping stuff they like, I am against elevating this > to the state of an "accepted proposal" because that would convey too much > mindshare to such a marginal issue. > > The proposal is driven by a geek-y desire to convert every last bit of > information contained in a road sign into an OSM tag. But I don't think that > this is what people will usually want to do, and I fear that giving this > idea more mindshare will in the end lead to our editors being burdened by > special restriction composer preset tabs where you can generate stuff like > time and weather dependent speed limits for disabled persons with children. > > I don't think that the proposal is the "de facto standard" either. I think > some of its parts will probably be used - e.g. I could see "maxspeed:wet" > being of use. I think it is likely however that this will be interpreted > like a normal, fixed tag, and I don't believe anyone will actually implement > a restriction parser that understands any combination of restrictions on any > tags. > > I have no problem whatsoever if the mapping of speed limits that only apply > to HGV at night happens by way of a "note" tag. It's just not frequent > enough to even discuss. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
