[Tagging] Cleaning up

[Alan Mintz]

At 2010-05-05 08:55, Pieren wrote:
>...Let say that 99.99% of the unclassified and residential roads can be 
>walked on both sides, why should we draw the sidewalks everywhere ? It 
>would be more clever to tag where sidewalks are missing or not allowed, 
>imo. Say where things are missing, not where they are obviously 
>authorized. Or you add "oneway=no" to all roads as well ?

+1. Micromapping may be "on the rise", but that doesn't mean it's 
necessarily a good thing. I'd still like to see a means of specifying, on 
administrative boundaries, tags that are to be assumed (inherited) by 
contained objects (e.g. sidewalk=yes, surface=paved, lanes=2, maxspeed=25 
mph, etc.). I currently don't tag these, but it would be useful to visitors 
to know them.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>