[Tagging] Current status of the key smoothness=*

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-03-13 11:09 GMT+01:00 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:

> I'm for verbal description rather than a number - easier to understand.
> If I come across a road marked 'smoothness=medium' and later come across a
> road with worse smoothness I can see which way to go with the verbal value,
> if the value was a simple number I'd nave no idea..and may skip the data
> entry due to time limits, laziness and added complexity.
>


Problem with verbal descriptions is, that you don't know how much worse it
is, e.g. grade1 vs. grade3 tells you there must also be a grade2, while
"bad" vs. "medium" doesn't give you any such information.

Cheers,
Martin
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