[OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy

[Andy Robinson]

Andrew,

Usefully post, thanks. It was always envisaged that the current Map Features
tagging set was principally aimed at the UK as well as being an English
format rather than any other language.

If you can work up a basic bullet list of the sort of tagging you need to
cover in oz and drop it onto a wiki page I'll be happy to work up a revised
Map Features set, including the annotations preset file for JOSM. It doesn't
need to encompass everything that the current Map Features does, just the
basics if you like.

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Loughhead
>Sent: 29 July 2006 02:41
>To: Emil
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy
>
>Emil wrote:
>> On 7/28/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>>> how you'd do it... I think the main barrier is not usability right now,
>>> its GPS ownership. I think more people would go for it if they had a GPS
>>> alreadt, I know a fair few people who are interested and would probably
>>> get hooked but don't want to buy a GPS just for this in case it turns
>>> out to be super boring.
>>
>> I think the main barrier is the difficulty of using the editors. The
>> only option to non-geeks is to have someone explain to them in person
>> how to use them.
>
>For me one difficulty, which I see as a barrier to entry, is the tag
>system. There was a really good post a couple of months ago explaining
>the UK etymology of "highway".  So it now kind of makes sense to me that
>tags like highway=footpath exist.  But where I live, a highway is
>basically a long haul road [1].  It might be dual carriageway, two lanes
>each way, 110 km/h speed limit.  Or it might be 1400 km of rarely graded
>desert track like the Gunbarrel [2].  I am pretty sure its never a
>footpath, or steps.  Then there are motorways and freeways, which are
>like a good highway, but you might have to pay.
>
>Map Features is nice work, but many of the terms involved are not
>intuitive in this country.  Thats kind of surprising given Australia's
>history as a British colony.  I like the fact that MF  encompasses some
>real complexity, but perhaps we could produce a simple subset of tags,
>specifically relevant to routes motor vehicles commonly take.  Could the
>editors show that simple tag set by default, but allow advanced users to
>use full MF (or whatever)?
>
>I also don't know that telling newbies to just invent their own tags is
>necessarily of much comfort to those newbies.
>
>But OSM is awesome :-)
>
>Andrew
>
>1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highways_in_Australia
>2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunbarrel_Highway
>
>
>>
>> Emil
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