[Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)
Peter Budny
peterb at gatech.edu
Tue Oct 19 03:53:56 BST 2010
Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
>
> On 10/15/2010 09:44 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>
> I don't think we should be storing any prefix as part of the
> network=*
> or ref=* tags (thus my suggestion for
> network=us_route/state_route/county_route or similar). For example
> the
> "I-x" denotation shouldn't show up anywhere in our tags. If it's
> an
> interstate it should be tagged as such (I suggest network=
> interstate
> but I think there's a precedent on the wiki) and the renderer can
> add
> the "I-" if it wants to.
>
> i agree, it's a rendering prefix for a ref tag value and deserves
> its own, separate tag.
>
> For relations I agree, but for ways this doesn’t work. And as renderers
> can only handle ways for now…
>
> This is a data project, not a renderer project. If the renderers aren't doing
> the right thing then we need to make them do the right thing.
+1
Continuing to use ref= tags at all when we have relations that represent
a much cleaner way to tag roads is a terrible case of tagging for the
renderer. I think it's premature to remove ref tags, but I don't see
any point in adding them to new ways, rather than just creating a
relation.
If the relations keep getting broken, we ought to fix the tools people
are using so it isn't as easy to break them.
--
Peter Budny \
Georgia Tech \
CS PhD student \
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