[OSM-newbies] Secondary destination? (was: Re: School Campus)

[James Ewen]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> Actually, it was promoted to secondary due to the fact that the whole
> thing is a major enough road that it needed to be visually distinguished
> from more minor city ways and properly reflect it's status as an
> important connection between 99E, 22 and 213.

"Visually distinguished" in the database? Sounds like the tag is being
selected based on trying to get the rendered image to depict the area
in a manner that would be useful to the map user.


On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:22 PM, David ``Smith'' <vidthekid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyway, your explanation satisfies me.  With that in mind, I would
> suggest promoting to secondary a little bit more of it at the ends:
> north to OR 99E / Portland Rd NE, and south to the southernmost trunk
> links to OR 22 / Santiam Expressway.  (<http://osm.org/go/TdXV2vRe>
> <http://osm.org/go/TdXUoDMr>)  That would make things a bit neater
> looking.

That wouldn't be a suggestion to "tag for the renderer", would it? The
data looks pretty "neat" in the database already... tidy little
numbers and letters all in the right spots and all.

It sure sounds like we are all trying to work towards a common goal,
which is creating a map database that would contain data stored in a
manner that would allow another user to interpret the stored data in a
manner that can be easily consumed and understood.

James
VE6SRV