> Tagging a road as something implies certain rules, surely, and only when > those rules are different from the standard (for that country) should > you need to say so. Same as the oneway=no discussion that went on > previously.
All those discussions about cycleways, motorway_link, maxspeed, etc... seem to point at the same problem: on the one hand, the authors should need to enter as little info as possible, and as close to the "on the ground data" as possible, which means that it should elide all the data that's available from context (local laws and customs); and on the other hand, users of the data want it to be in a much more regular form, without having to worry about the customs used in any particular part of the world. So, I think we should split the data in the following way: 1 - the user-written data, as close as possible to what's available on the ground. 2 - a bunch of "locales", defined by the land they cover (typically countries, states, provinces, ...). 3 - a set of rules that say how to interpret the raw data for specific locales. 4 - A library that takes the above 3 and generates a "clean" output, indendent from any local laws and customs. -- Stefan _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk