On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Nathan Mills <nat...@nwacg.net> wrote: > On Sun, 29 May 2011 00:57:30 -0400, Anthony wrote: > >>> That's quite the misrepresentation of what I'm saying. >> >> It was an exact quote. > > You may have heard of the concept of the "pull quote." It describes using > partial quotations to misrepresent someone else's position.
Yes, I have. >> And my point is 1) that you aren't going to convince people to do >> that; and 2) that if you could convince people to tag the number of >> lanes, you'd be better off having them use a tag which says the number >> of lanes. > > I find it difficult to believe that you object so strenuously to making it > simple to tag one of the main things an end user of a road map desires to > know when looking at said map. Good, because I don't. > Is it a practical "you can't get people to > agree to that" objection, or a "I don't think it should be done that way" > objection? It's both. I don't think you are going to convince people to base the trunk tag on the number of lanes, and I don't think we should use the term trunk to tag the fact that a road has four lanes. > Once again, there is, to most non-mapgeeks a class of road which is less > than a motorway, but better than all other classes of road. In my part of > the country, most people call it an expressway. This should be easy to tag, > so that the map is most useful to end users (and simple to edit for casual > editors, who you're almost certainly not going to convince to tag width and > lane count on every edit). I agree. > Trunk seems to fit that bill, and is used that way already in many areas. Here I disagree. The problem with using trunk to represent the class of road, and primary to represent the most important non-motorway, is that you can't tag something trunk *and* primary. > What advantage does trunk have over primary in any of the mentioned > examples? It is rendered at z5. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
