On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Cartinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > As someone else aptly put it earlier: OSM is about being machine-readable, otherwise it might as well be OpenAerialMap.
Karl
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