On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Michal Migurski <m...@stamen.com> wrote: >> >> >> NE2 asked me to revert the changes, because he's unhappy with me moving the >> route variant information from the ref tags to the modifier tags, e.g. >> turning "ref=80 Business" into "ref=80 modifier=Business". According to the >> supported tagging guidelines on Aperiodic, my interpretation should be >> correct: "The value of the ref tag on the relation must contain just the >> route number, without any network information." >> http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/supported.html > > ... > > As far as what to do from here... damned if I know. I don't think > anyone wants NE2 banned (he's a dedicated armchair mapper and > contributes a lot to OSM, even if he's somewhat pigheaded in applying > his own particular approaches in places where it's not as clear he has > a lot of local knowledge), but at the same time he doesn't seem to be > willing to concede on this point which IMO has become an obstacle to > improving the map as-used by Skobbler, Mapbox, Stamen, Cloudmade, > Mapquest etc downstream. I guess my advice would be to proceed but be > cautious of blowback.
That's what I've ultimately decided to do. I'm in semi-regular conversation with NE2 offlist, and while I'm happy with my own changes and stand by them, I also have no interest in an edit war or a situation where NE2's valuable contributions are put in jeopardy. If he feels strongly enough to revert them, I'd be okay with that. I have no opinion on the network vs. modifier question, but I do believe that ref tags should be usable as-is in a renderer, so that's the direction my changes have taken. I'll let this all sit for a while, to see where it winds up in a few weeks. -mike. ---------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us