On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Perhaps, to avoid the creation of millions tags with motorcar=yes/no, bicycle=yes/no, pedestrian=yes/no (and so on) in dozen of millions of ways, it should be more clever to have a set of default values defined per country and specified in a single, dedicated page on the wiki. Then, if an application wants to support local rules for e.g. routing, the application will have to know in which country it is executed and apply the list of default values accordingly. Some default values can be accepted worlwide and set in the dedicated key page. For instance: highway=pedestrian implies motorcar=no worldwide If one country cannot use the worlwide default value, we move the default values from the dedicated key page to a wiki page which could be called "Country specific default values" (or whatever you like). For instance: highway=pedestrian ; bicycle=yes/no => see [[Country specific default values]] On this wiki page, each country can build it's onw list of default values if they wish: highway=pedestrian germany bicycle=yes france bicycle=no oneway=yes netherlands bicycle=opposite_is_tolerated U-turn restrictions australia relation "x" required etc... This could also be defined in each wiki Tag page but the advantage of a single page collecting all those defaults values is that external applications (like a router) could automatically parse this page for their own needs/format. Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk