On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:26 PM, John Smith<delta_foxt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Thu, 6/8/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au <b.schulz...@scu.edu.au> wrote: >> 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.
Precisely because we want their rendering AND routing software to work 99% of the time... > 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. Exactly. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
