[Talk-us] U.S. Bike Route 76

[Adam Killian]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> Dylan Semler wrote:
>
>   
>> So I don't mean to be a pain but whatever happened to the "Don't tag for
>> the renderers" rule?  I thought that was pretty fundamental advice for
>> tagging but people seem to be ignoring it in this thread.  I don't know
>> anything about US or British bike routes but if they are not ncn then
>> they shouldn't be tagged ncn, right?  If a renderer is not rendering OSM
>> data properly, then the solution is to fix the renderer, not break OSM. 
>> Maybe I don't understand the situation enough?
>>     
>
> I don't disagree with what you're saying.  Worse yet, these are tagged
> on the individual ways rather than tagged as relations.  So whoever goes
> through and fixes it has some serious work on their hands.  I imagine
> Pennsylvania's probably a larger chunk than is really workable in JOSM.
>
>   

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me. I was there when it was written.**

I tagged those routes in accordance with the official directions for the 
cyclemap at that time (Summer 2007).  We didn't even have relations 
until October 2007.   I discussed using NCN for those routes with Andy 
Allen before I started, and he agreed with my rationale. 

I don't remember ever getting the official word that relations are now 
the one and only acceptable method of tagging cycleways, in any case.  
(I just checked the wiki, and I now see that they are preferred.)

I did not break OSM.  IMO, Pennsylvania is no more a "region" than it is 
a "nation."  Given two equally wrong choices, I chose the one that would 
render better.

If the consensus of the community  is that US states are regions, I'll 
see to it that they are fixed as quickly as my leisure time permits.

Adam