Mentioning defaults on the wiki is not machine-readable. We've been talking about this for a while now - can someone please set up a separate channel for a discussion about the mechanism for setting defaults?
Matej Lieskovský On 12 February 2018 at 22:28, Selfish Seahorse <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't see how it would be possible to set a default global value. > > I thought that just mentioning them in the wiki would be enough (like > the default access restrictions). But as residential roads with more > than one lane seem to be common elsewhere, there is no need for such a > global default value. > > > On 12 February 2018 at 22:16, marc marc <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Le 12. 02. 18 à 22:02, Selfish Seahorse a écrit : >>> There were quite a few additions of cycleway:both=no and lanes=1 tags >>> to residential roads and living streets recently, which makes me >>> wonder if it might make sense to define cycleway:both=no and lanes=1 >>> as default values for highway=residential and highway=living_street on >>> the wiki. What do you think about that? >> >> I don't see how it would be possible to set a default global value. >> and even for a country-scale default value, here lanes=1 and lanes=2 >> are just as common. >> If you think that a default value makes sense for a country, discuss it >> with the country mailing. but as long as there is no mechanism to set >> default values in osm, the info on the wiki page will still be useless >> for applications that use the data. your wish therefore requires you to >> work on the proposed feature "default values". >> >> For cycleway:both=no, setting this to the default value does not change >> anything, what is missing is a way to make the difference between "this >> route has the default values after verification" of "this route has not >> been checked, let's suppose it is the default values as long as nobody >> has filled accurate value". >> If not, you should also remove surface=asphalt because it's the default >> for a residential highway in a lot of country. also remove maxspeed, ... >> >> Regards, >> Marc >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
