[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Kerb

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2011/6/22 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:
>>
>> I removed the yes and no values, because I couldn't see any utility,
>> instead offering the "unknown" value.
>>
>
> I don't think it is a good idea. In fact, the 'yes' value is widely used in
> OSM when you don't know the details (e.g. aerial imagery survey). For
> instance, building=yes. You are changing a basic rule of OSM tagging without
> any improvement.


I think it does not matter. Why and how would you survey kerbs from
aerial imagery? While yes is widely used in OSM for many features, in
the kontext of kerbs (with the suggested values raised and lowered) it
makes as much sense as highway=yes (there is indeed 105 of them).

cheers,
Martin