[OSM-talk] The Return of the Highway tags and other junk

[Nick Whitelegg]

>I don't see the point in modelling a few gateposts and tracks in a small
>area of countryside when there are whole swathes of the UK (for example)
>which don't have even a basic skeleton of streets. Many, many towns and
>villages jusrt don't exist for OSM yet in any meaningful way so why on 
earth
>are gateposts anywhere near the picture.

Whilst I agree that gates should be modelled via nodes, not segments, I 
disagree with the concept that it's not important to map tracks. If 
someone has an interest in mapping tracks, footpaths etc then it's 
basically up to them. 

Nick