[Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

[Richard Welty]

On 1/2/13 10:49 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 1/1/13 7:32 PM, dies38061 at mypacks.net wrote:
>> I am interested in what tagging you would suggest to indicate that a 
>> stretch of road has been "adopted" as part of an Adopt-a-Highway 
>> program.
>>
> unrelated to the source & amenity tagging discussion...
> i think that maybe adapt-a-highway is probably an example of something 
> best done as a mashup rather than something that ought to go in the 
> OSM database.
> it seems to me to be a likely maintenance problem in the long run.
now that i've thought about it a bit more -- do you have a use case for 
the data
once it's entered into OSM? that is, what data consumer do you imagine 
would use it,
why and how?

richard