On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: > > Meh, who cares. What we're > > essentially doing here is forking OSM, just while still > > using their database. Why do all the Australian mapping > > guidelines need to be global? So long as what we tag ends up > > being consistent enough that their rendering works 99% of > > the time it's not really going to change anything. > > Isn't this the whole point of being "Open"? > > The fact that we can take their data and make something > > better without having to start from scratch. > > > > Basically, the idea that it's possible to come up with > > a tagging scheme which works perfectly across all > > international juristictions is not one which is based in > > reality. Lets just do our own thing and nuts to the rest of > > the world. > > The problem isn't with OSM specifically, it's the potential of 3rd party > software such as routing software. If we were to have no regards, and those > in the US did the same, and those in Germany etc etc etc the authors of > such software will just write software for the more popular regions of the > planet and that could have a serious outcome for us due to being so under > populated.
I suspect that most of really third party stuff is Garmin, so if we are still compatible with Garmin we will be usable long term I don't think that the noisy German guy has much backup from his compatriots. We hear him all the time, and not many other voices _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
