Am Freitag, 13. Juni 2008 07:42:25 schrieb Karl Newman: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:18 PM, spaetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:34:06AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: > > > So now I decide that since I drive really fast down my driveway, I > > > should call it highway=motorway and start tagging driveways that way. > > > Since > > > > that's > > > > > "how it's used", I'm going to change Map Features to reflect that. > > > Okay, that's a bit extreme, but really, care should be taken when > > > changing Map Features since that's what the mappers rely on. > > > > highway=track > > tracktype=grade1 6520 > > > > Seems to be used 6520 times in Germany alone, according to tagwatch. That > > hardly qualifies as a single loonie, doing nonsense. I agree that > > changing map_features should be done carefully. But in this case it seems > > absurd to bnot change it. > > > > spaetz > > Ah, so I only need 6249 more loonies! :-) Thanks for the data to back this > up. I'm actually okay with the change, but I'm concerned with the cavalier > manner in which it was done. > > Karl
Well, the point is, that when tracktype appeared (and was discussed and voted upon in the wiki), it included the "grade1 is paved or similar" description on the proposal page, but noone changed the outdated information in map features afterwards. -Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
