[OSM-talk] Users, contributors and developers

[SteveC]

On 27 Apr 2007, at 11:00, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
>>> It is true that introducing a "third column" without exact specs  
>>> on how to use it will add to the confusion. But that's not  
>>> necessarily a bad thing because out of the confusion my arise a  
>>> better spec than could have been provided beforehand. (May, not  
>>> will; you never know where you get with those community processes.
>>
>> What confusion?
>
> fred at kuweit:~$ bzcat planet-070425.osm.bz2 | grep 'k="highway" v="'  
> | cut -d\" -f4 | sort -u |wc -l
> 433
>
> That kind of confusion. (But actually it has improved a lot since  
> my last count.)

That doesn't really say a lot. You could have 10 highway types used a  
lot and then 423 used only once. And what's it stopping you from  
doing? You really want some kind of perfect dataset given from the  
gods? It's not going to happen. Every dataset has errors and  
omissions - we don't have half of most countries yet. Isn't that a  
bigger problem than a few bad tags (which you could fix, by the way)?

have fun,

SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/