[Talk-GB] Wiki - United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Andrew <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> The great strength of OSM is that it can be a platform for many (and hopefully
> more to come) applications written by people all round the world.
> Country-specific tagging guidelines make it more difficult to share applications
> with the rest of the world.

I'd say that country-specific guidelines are worthwhile, so long as
they are helping mappers converge on global standards. For example, I
think you'd support country-specific guidelines similar to "In France,
tag Autoroutes as highway=motorway. In Germany, tag Autobahns as
highway=motorway. In the UK, tag Motorways as highway=motorway" and so
on.

You're mistaking "country-specific guidelines" with "country-specific tagging".

Cheers,
Andy