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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 24, 2022, 13:41 by gdt@lexort.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div>Maarten Deen <mdeen@xs4all.nl> writes:<br></div><blockquote><div>Not sure if there is an implicit value for sidewalk for different<br></div><div>highway types, but if there is not and certainly if the 100 km road is<br></div><div>not a major one (in Germany 100 km/h is default outside towns), then<br></div><div>it would not be a bad addition.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just because there is a default value for a key does not mean it should<br></div><div>not be added.<br></div><div><br></div><div>There is a big difference between<br></div><div><br></div><div> there is a tag says this object doesn't have a sidewalk<br></div><div><br></div><div> there is documentation that says if there is no sidewalk tag then one<br></div><div> should assume it is like sidewalk=no<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">+1<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>while data consumers are supposed to treat those the same, the first is<br></div><div>reliable and the second is a guess<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">No. Data consumers can assume something when no data is tagged<br></div><div dir="auto">but how people process OSM data is 100% their decision.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">They can assume something, treat this lack of data specially,<br></div><div dir="auto">make assumptions different than someone proposed on wiki...<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Data consumers are not obligated or supposed to treat this two cases<br></div><div dir="auto">in the same way. And different data consumers likely will have different needs.<br></div> </body>
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