On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > How did it go?
It went well. Our meetup was all veterans (I'm sure that the late notice didn't help). We talked about damage from the license change (the areas that we all map in were fairly unaffected by the license change). We about our own particular interests; none of us took notes (it was more of an informal gathering) so I will let other attendees elaborate. The thread about the trails project was mentioned in response to a discussion about mapping local trails. We discussed the use of the name=* vs official_name=* tags for local rail infrastructure; our consensus was that official CSX names for rail infrastructure should be moved to the official_name=* tag and that the name of the operator should be used in the name=* tag if any name=* is used at all. This was in reference to various "Beltline" rails named as such in the name=* tag despite the confusion that is generated by the appearance of "Beltline" on the map. (There is a "Beltline" project prominent in local news which is a transit/trail/real estate project; locals assume that "Beltline" on map refers to that massive project and not to existing rail infrastructure). We agreed that this is NOT tagging/mapping for the renderer; since any renderer can choose how to render official_name=*, we are designating the locally preferred method of naming ways which depict rail in such a way that is still consistent with OSM-wide conventions. After meals and brewskies, we visited a local piece of transit history which has never been utilized and which is not yet mapped. Bill R. WASHBURN _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
