[OSM-talk] osmeditor.... most desired features?

[Etienne Cherdlu]

I'd argue that there shouldn't be *any* tags on segments any more.

A segment can belong to several ways (a bus route, a cycle route, a
highway, etc) and each has it's own characteristic.

I read somewhere that there was a recommendation to always create a
way even if it is only one segment long.  It is consistent with this
that any tags should then be put on the way and no tags on the
segment.

Whenever I convert my segments to ways I delete any old tags on the
segments to (a) avoid the possibility of inconsistency and (b) to
reduce the amount of data going back and forth.

Etienne

On 4/28/06, Joerg Ostertag <openstreetmap at ostertag.name> wrote:
> On Friday 28 April 2006 15:24, Andrew Findlay wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:39:07PM +0200, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> > > > The ability to select a bunch of segments and update the tags on the
> > > > whole lot (i.e. change all to A-road).
> > >
> > > Why not just set the a-road attribute to the way instead of to every
> > > single segment?
> >
> > Because sometimes I realise that the segments are labelled with the
> > wrong tags - what would be the meaning of a way labelled as a motorway
> > where the underlying segments are labelled as 'minor road'?
>
>
> This sounds like: Don't use it ;-)
>
> If anyone knows a combination of Tags or other patterns we can search in the
> planet.osm File. Just anything which would improve the Quality of our
> Nodes/Segments/Ways; please tell me and I'll add it to the check_osm.pl
>
> -
>
> Joerg
>
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Etienne
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