Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Per-15 wrote: >> If you don't like smoothness invent a better scheme! >> Smoothness is better than nothing. > > That's debatable (as well as, er, very_horrible). Agreed It does not provide a platform to build on at all.
> Personally I believe the easiest and most flexible thing is just to extend > the access tags: > > bicycle=no|yes|difficult|unsuitable > > so you'd get > > highway=bridleway > foot=yes (permitted, no problem) > bicycle:racer=unsuitable (permitted but not practical) > bicycle:hybrid=difficult (permitted but challenging) > bicycle:mtb=yes (permitted, no problem) Now that makes perfect sense and fits in with usability. There IS a need for tagging things like width, height restrictions, and even 'steepness', but in the first instance simply getting a good coverage everywhere with a basic set of tags is more important than the excessive fine detail that is being proposed as 'basic tagging' ? I don't want to reopen an old debate, but contour lines are ALMOST essential around here for determining the severity of a walking route, while those routes are well surfaced in places, the change in altitude makes some of them impractical for some of us 'less fit' walkers. > It follows the time-honoured OSM principle of "tag as much as you know/can > be bothered to do; crowdsourcing will make the data richer over time". > > But I really can't be faffed with explaining this to a bunch of droids on > the wiki who may never have seen a bridleway in their lives but won't let > that stop them voting. If there was an obvious set of tagging then there would not be a problem, but as yet there is nothing proposed that *I* would consider provides useful information. Perhaps it is time for secondary data projects - like the cycle map - to have thier own set of extra tags that are only used for those mapping excercises? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
