On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Ben Laenen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benlaenen@gmail.com">benlaenen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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It may be better to let each country decide for itself in the end I<br>
guess.<br>
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Ben<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br>In addition to my previous objections, namely that newbies don't follow standards, and that it make things difficult for OSM members traveling internationally as well as all the downstream software (gosmore, mkgmap etc), I have a new objection : <br>
<br>Some countries can't decide for themselves. We have set up <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/South_African_Tagging_Standards">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/South_African_Tagging_Standards</a> a year and a half ago and now someone wants to change it : <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-za/2008-November/000299.html">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-za/2008-November/000299.html</a><br>
And that's in a top 25 country with English as an official language.<br><br>For the sake of conformity I'm quite happy to adopt the German standard namely that track defaults to motorcar=no.<br><br>