On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 6:38 AM, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> You forgot an important condition. ALL of these changes must take place >> AT THE SAME >> TIME. Not just co-ordination of software, but of every lanes=* tag. >> SIMULTANEOUSLY. >> I'd be prepared to let him have a little leeway, like a whole hour to do >> it in. Maybe, if he >> asks very nicely, a day. Definitely no longer than that. >> > > Where are you getting this arbitrary rule from? > This "arbitrary rule" is simply common sense. It is what is necessary in order to prevent a sub-optimal mess of conflicting meanings. Even you know that this is so, although you do not understand the implications. Consider your own words: > Considering that it's already been wrong for nearly 300,000 ways for years > now, the only thing that could > happen on this would be improve. > So, of 7 million lanes tags, 300,000 get it wrong. Which means that 6,700,000 get it right. And it has been that way for YEARS. So with your proposal, we switch from 6,700,000 tags that are right and 300,000 that are wrong to 300,000 that are right and 6,700,000 that are wrong. And you consider that an improvement??? Oh, but you reject (as an arbitrary rule) any suggestion that we would have to fix all those broken tags at the same time as we redefine the meaning, so they would STAY BROKEN for YEARS. Do you really not understand why this is not an improvement? Do you really not understand why motorists want to plan routes around the number of lanes suitable for motor vehicles rather than the total number of lanes, not all of which may be suitable for motor vehicles? Do you really not understand that your suggestion has received no support here? I know, you're thinking that you are smarter than the rest of us. Remember this: "They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. They laughed at Einstein. They also laughed at Koko the Clown." -- Paul
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