[Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> Anthony wrote:
>
>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "work differently".  The laws of different
>> states are different, so the information which needs to be presented by the
>> map is different.  The maps, therefore, are going to be different.  I
>> wouldn't "expect the same map to work differently" in different places,
>> because I wouldn't "expect the same map" in different places.
>
> So you're suggesting a 300+ way fork of OSM?

It's entirely possible I'm wrong here (since I'm not paying as close
attention to this thread as others) but I believe the recommendations
here are to add tags which correspond to local standards. Once that's
done, other tags which may be more subjective can be added for
simplicity, and the renderer can use either the exact tagging scheme
that makes sense locally, or else it can use the more generalized (but
less precise) tags.

- Serge