Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: > It's a whole lot easier to add additional tags that are logical and describe > the physical properties of the highway specifically. For the physical you
I disagree that it's a whole lot easier. As you mention below, "who wants to spend hours adding 20 tags to each piece of road". Much better IMO to have a tag which can "shorthand" those twenty tags. Just need to figure out how best to give a general idea of the road physically, without the need to break out the tape measures. > You can do the same for administrative designations that go beyond the > simple highway= approach we started with. These don't supersede the existing > tags, they simply add to the overall definition of the object. That's exactly what I'm going for here. For example, highway=secondary tells nothing at all about the road, besides that it is at a lower level (in some way, administratively or physically) than a primary, trunk, or motorway. This proposal allows a basic description of the physical road (from a glance) and also (hopefully) gives a way to indicate the administrative designation, in a way that can be used globally (perhaps with slight modification at some point to add a level or two) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
