On Wednesday 23 April 2008 14:45:17 Steve Hill wrote: > The problem is that the context isn't clear since there is no designated > "context" tag - i.e. if you have a way tagged with highway=climbing and > rock=limestone, is the context provided by the highway tag or the rock > tag?
A machine wouldn't know without a set of rules or a hierarchy. But the human brain is a lot more sophisticated than a machine, plus it is filled with lots of "background" knowledge. Therefore a human (of sufficient intelligence) wouldn't have a problem in deciding that the highway is more important than the rock in a database called OpenSteetMap. Once again you have removed the context from your example: * there is a tag * among other tags * on an object * inbetween other objects * with (the same or other) tags * in a database * with a certain purpose * shown in an editor * with a certain shape/colour * ... -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
