On 9/30/2011 2:23 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Really? Are there people who say "I'd rather not map because there is no
consensus on the roads tagging"? Are those people the 20,000 missing
mappers in the US?
It is more like "I don't see anyone using the map except for
Skobbler, so why should I invest my time?" And what are the obstacles
to usage? inconsistent tagging.
Ideally this should be done by, as you say, "facilitating a consensus",
Personally I'd think a per-state consensus would already be quite good.
Greece and Norway use different tagging schemes - so why would anyone be
"held back" if Texas uses something other than Alaska?
A map data consumer would want to be aware of local state
conventions, but it would be a huge saving of effort to read up on a
single US tagging convention from the Wiki, then apply it to consume map
data. As already demonstrated by the 'shields' discussion, we can
begin to approach a unified tagging convention that will cover all
states. In the US, there may be minor differences from state to state,
but we expect products to work seamlessly everywhere.
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