> -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com] > On 9/30/2011 1:48 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >I think > > you could make a case that OSM in the US is being held back by the > >community's failure to agree on a common tagging scheme for roads > >(about five years after every other country settled on one, and with > >no sign of it being resolved any time soon). > > Add Canada to the list: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Highway.2 > FRoad.2FCarriageway_Tagging_System
>From what I've seen when building relations outside of BC, the tagging is fairly consistent across Canada. It's just not documented. I think the difficulties for North American tagging stem from the fact that there is no system of government classifications in some areas that is meaningful for determining what to tag a road as. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
