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<div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif';font-size:12pt;"><div>David,</div><div><br></div><div>I’ve acknowledged this elsewhere and understand the problem better. I only had the perspective from having been hit by this problem from several sources over a number of years. I now realise it is a more general problem and am better armed to help point the producers in the right direction.</div><div><br></div><div>However, I am a little disappointed that you seem to conceive of a world where there are the lovely helpful mapping community and the routing people are not lovely and helpful but evil commercial exploiters of our work. The mapping I use with various Garmin devices has been freely developed and provided without expectation of payment and OSM would not be the success it is without the support of that community.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Ian<br></div><div data-signatureblock="true"><br></div><div style="padding-top: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid;"><div><font face=" 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif'" style='line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-family: "Calibri", "Segoe UI", "Meiryo", "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:forums@david-woolley.me.uk" target="_parent">David Woolley</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 28 July 2014 10:32<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org" target="_parent">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div dir=""><div id="readingPaneBodyContent">On 27/07/14 22:26, ianmspencer@gmail.com wrote:<br>> So there should be a clear tagging that is distinct for the meaning<br>> of “trunk (UK sense)” vs “trunk (International sense)<br><br>The logical conclusion of this would be that there would have to be a <br>different tag for every jurisdiction. In this context a jurisdiction <br>could be a city, not just a country, as they all have the potential to <br>change the rules independently of each other, at any time. (Although I <br>can't think of a good example for routing, at the moment, rules for <br>highways differ from the rest of the county in London, e.g. there are <br>more strict rules on pavement parking and blocking dropped kerbs.)<br><br>That would actually make life more difficult for routing software <br>developers, as they would need to have a table listing all of the <br>variants, even if most where the the same.<br><br>The current rules are set for the benefit of the many amateur mappers, <br>not for the few professional software developers.<br><br>Even in areas where the rules require the use of a single international <br>standard, namely phone numbers, the British amateur mappers regularly <br>break the rule by giving national format numbers or even +44(0) format <br>numbers, because that is how they are used to representing them, and <br>because it is more difficult for part time mappers to learn and remember <br>the rules than it should be for a professional software developer.<br><br>Of course commercial software development managers, when given something <br>apparently free for cost, do tend not to budget for the cost of making <br>it usable in their application.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-GB mailing list<br>Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<br>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb<br></div></div></div>
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