On 07/05/12 13:19, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > As a relatively new mapper, two things stand out to me. > > 1) What Potlatch offers will be used. That means > h=footway/cycleway/bridleway/track will be used over h=path > > 2) The footway/cycleway/bridleway classification scheme makes perfect > sense to me. Any path I see I in town I can easily classify into one > of the three - most are footways, some are dedicated cycleways, and on > somewhere like Wimbledon Common there is a dedicated bridleway. Thus > h=path is something I would perceive as a fallback. > > Note that at no point am I caring about designated rights of way. That > is a much more complex thing to determine it would seem, and not > something that a casual or new mapper would be bothered by. > > Tag the broad view of what you see. The PROW or other stuff is > *detail*. Let normal mappers add the basic > footway/cycleway/bridleway/track, and expert mappers add the detail > later.
This. I agree with this *so much*. People map to the level of detail they're comfortable with, and that's a strength not a weakness. Legal designations, access rights and surface type are pointless detail to a new mapper. Therefore whatever docs we write should encourage the use of the most expressive single-tag scheme for a thing up front because that enables new users to enter fairly informative data in the most comfortable way for them. -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
