[OpenStreetMap] #4017: Naming relations for hike and bike node network routes
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trac at openstreetmap.org
Tue Nov 15 21:23:02 GMT 2011
#4017: Naming relations for hike and bike node network routes
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Reporter: ghia | Owner: rails-dev@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: website | Version:
Keywords: |
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Comment(by Polyglot):
Replying to [comment:12 Richard]:
> Blackmail. Awesome!
Whether you do something about this or not, my bank account will remain in
the same sorry state it was before. The note tag is used on > 10.000 route
relations in this way across at least 3 countries for routes of the cycle
node network. The situation is rapidly getting worse, since the same way
of tagging is used for hiking/foot and equestrian routes. Those networks
have many more nodes * ~1.4 routes/node since they work on a finer grid.
People are resorting to putting what belongs in those note tags into the
name field, which is incorrect usage of the name tag and thus tagging for
the 'software used as an editor'. I am in the process of cleaning up these
route relations and to make them all follow the same rules. The rules that
have been specified many years ago on the wiki. Not a random page, but all
the pages describing the CNN rcn relations describe them this way.
Of course cleaning up is not all that I'm doing with those routes. They
all get vetted, inspected, corrected and soon it will be able to do
automatic Quality Control on them. This is already possible for all the
routes of the entire collection of networks in Belgium. And it works
great. I find mistake introduced by human editors who recombine ways, or
who remove members without replacing them. Continuity of those routes is
checked in two directions, etc.
So, in part it is my doing that human contributors are looking at
meaningless large integers and this is why I feel responsible to keep
stirring in this kettle.
Also, I don't enjoy having to badmouth your product on the wiki. The least
I could do, I believe, is to let you know the comment is there. You can
always remove it from the wiki, if you like.
So, in the long run, I'm trying to make sure the human contributors have
an enjoyable experience using Potlatch2 and I wanted to let you know that
use of another tag has been discussed and has been rejected. So we are all
stuck with this usage of the note tag, since those routes really don't
have names. The note tags are there for the human editors contributing to
the map, so there is nothing insane about their use.
Jo (probably the last words I'll sully on this subject)
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