NopMap wrote: > Hi! > > A consistent, easy-to-use set of tags would spare mappers from spending time > trying to figure out how to do something that has been figured out many > times before or which contradictive information to follow. > As I map a road I've not visited before, I don't consider using highway=street_with_houses, I add highway=residential . If I see a road sign with a speed limit I add maxspeed=30mph, not restriction:speed=30mph or legal_constraint_on_speed=30mph. I don't agonise over the tag to use to label the plaque that describes the title of the street allocated by the council, I just add a name=* tag. All of this is listed on a single page in the wiki - it's even printed on a mug! Why is this so hard? > Instead mappers would be free to simply do what they enjoy - mapping. > If you have a fixed list then suddenly this enjoyable mapping experience becomes a frustrating battle when someone sees something that they want to add but it's not in the list, so it can't be added.
Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk