----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederik Ramm" <frede...@remote.org> To: "Jean-Guilhem Cailton" <j...@arkemie.com> Cc: "OSM-talk" <talk@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Geo-Locate the Haiti Hospitals Challenge]
> > Hi, > >> AN URGENT NEED in addtion to the hospitals is to clean up the road type >> tags to correspond with the humanitarian presets. > > Hold it right there! > > I think there is a limit to just how much OSM will stretch and bend to > match the needs of users. OSM is, first and foremost, a world-wide > mapping project, and secondly, something that comes in handy in a > crisis. OSM is not primarily a crisis mapping system. > > Crisis or no crisis, we have an established system of mapping roads. > Your presets file contains only the types "primary, secondary, tertiary, > footway". OSM mappers are used to a more fine-grained approach and I do > not think that just because our approach proves too complex for > outsiders we should simply discard it. + 1 from me > > It is ok for newbie mappers to stick to a small number of road types, > but your request to "clean up" existing data to only use these four > types does cross a border with me. We'll do a lot to make our data > usable, but we will not throw half of it away just because you currently > don't see use for it. > > There is a tag transform plugin for OSM. If you want data that uses only > four different road types, then we can translate OSM road types to your > four types; but I am very much against ignoring established OSM practice > just because users cannot be bothered to distinguish a track from a path. > > Bye > Frederik > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
