[talk-au] 4wd_only

Roy Wallace waldo000000 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 22:34:35 BST 2009


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:26 PM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Thu, 6/8/09, b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au <b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au> wrote:
>> Why do all the Australian mapping
>> guidelines need to be global? So long as what we tag ends up
>> being consistent enough that their rendering works 99% of
>> the time it's not really going to change anything.

Precisely because we want their rendering AND routing software to work
99% of the time...

> The problem isn't with OSM specifically, it's the potential of 3rd party software such as routing software. If we were to have no regards, and those in the US did the same, and those in Germany etc etc etc the authors of such software will just write software for the more popular regions of the planet and that could have a serious outcome for us due to being so under populated.

Exactly.




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