On 22 Feb 2010, at 23:39 , Stellan Lagerstrom wrote: > Apollinaris Schoell wrote: >> did someone contact this user? any feedback? >> he/she reverted the whole revert again. >> Will try to revert some of the worst areas for now but can't spend to much >> time on this. >> >> > We had a brief exchange of emails through the OSM site. I wondered why > so much tertiary, got the answer: > > "My interpretation is that any fully paved road, with hard shoulders, > gutters, enough width for parking on both sides plus two traffic lanes > ... is tertiary. I except any road which is a dead end or merely a loop." >
o boy, a a newbie who reads a bit wiki and adds the own interpretation and then changes what others did over month, and years without any consultation. > I replied we did not tag quite like that. He/she retorted that then we > were doing it wrong, and he/she had no problem with being different. pretty arrogant, really what we need in a community project > "There are areas of the US which have a road hierarchy where > "residential" makes sense and is even consistent with the actual UK > model. I have yet to see anything in the documentation or the talk pages > of the wiki which justifies such a drastic departure. " > > I said we should take it to the wiki since it is a community project, > and there we left it... > > Unfortunately, the wiki contains a lot of different ideas on how to tag > U.S. roads. It might be a good topic for a session at a U.S. SOTM to > hammer out some clear and easy-to-apply standards. this isn't just a U.S. problem. road classification is quite tricky and there has been lot of discussions everywhere. In the meantime there is a broad consensus that (relative) importance and physical layout are primary keys for classification. Standards? no way there is simply no way. some residential/service/tertiary roads in Santa Clara have better physical characteristics than I 80 near Donner pass. Still it is clear to anyone that I 80 is a motorway. Just tracing from Yahoo will yield entirely wrong data. mk408 changeset comment "reclass, de-abbrev, adjust based on yahoo ae" tells it all. an armchair mapper without knowledge of the reality out there. > > /Stellan > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us