[talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

[John Smith]

2009/12/18 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> Do you personally see anything wrong with different people mapping the same
> thing different ways?

Only if things can't be harmonised so they are displayed/useful in a
similar/same way, if they diverge then it just becomes a bit of a
mess.

> Do you personally see anything wrong with people mapping something in a way
> they know the community has agreed is wrong?*

That's the problem in this case, I didn't think what I was doing was
wrong, still don't really because the issue isn't with the map data
it's with how the routing software is interpreting it.

> * I don't know for sure that's the case here, so treat this as a
> hypothetical question.

In terms of the hypothetical it depends what it is, there is good
reason for standards and there is good reasons at times for why
standards can conflict, without a concrete example I can only give
hand wavy answers.