On 24 Jun 2010, at 5:24 , Richard Mann wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> the root of the discussion seems to have no basis in >> the tags, and seems entirely to be around rendering artefacts that you >> dislike. > > What purpose do the _link tags serve other than rendering? >
then the rendering is completely broken and doesn't deserve a special tag. all the commercial maps render links much smaller and on lowest layer. > If there's a serious reason for tag-to-higher then we can add an > additional tag so people can record the status of what it links to > (and then we can render it any way we like). But I can't think of a > sensible reason for recording/using the higher status, except for > motorways, so it just seems like it's been copied from motorway_link > without thinking it through, is producing unintended results, and is > therefore an error that needs to be corrected. > from a rendering point of view this shouldn't matter at all. as said above rendering is ugly for *_link > If people have done that thinking through, and there's a genuine > reason for tag-to-higher for non-motorway roads, then I'd love to hear > about it. All the reaction so far seems to be a complaint about how I > did it, rather than the substance of the matter. > > Andy's made one of the few moderately serious points: it's confusing > to treat them differently to motorway links. Not exactly a clincher, > if it's wrong for other reasons. > consistency is more important to avoid confusion than an absolute statement. as others pointed out ramps to/from motorways and most likely on trunks are in the same jurisdiction and maintained by same agency as the motorway/trunk. So there is a clear evidence that *_link belongs to the higher road it connects to. > Richard Mann > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
