[OSM-talk] Some question about OSM

[Dean Earley]

>>>> Things are in a state of change at the moment, with some people
>>>> using highway=primary, and other using class=primary.
>>>> highway=primary is the newer scheme, but both should be counted
>>>> as equal at present. It's all down to what editors people are
>>>> using, and how easy it makes it to define the key/value pairs.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps we should go ahead and fix this up on the server?  I can 
>>> understand the point of having the server be fairly light in
>>> terms of accepting the data given to it, but if the class=x
>>> scheme can be mapped fairly straightforwardly to the x=sub-x
>>> scheme, then we can clean up the data on the server, and keep the
>>> complexity all in one place.
>> 
>> This is no big deal with josm either. Just load the area, search
>> for class=xy, edit all found items at once and save it again.
> 
> But remember that when you do this you may be changing someone else's
> edits and they may be relying on what they entered originally.

They can coexist and I leave the class entry there when I "fix" my local 
entries.

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