[OSM-talk] Bridge tags

[Andy Robinson]

80n wrote:
>Sent: 05 January 2007 8:57 AM
>To: Tom Chance
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Bridge tags
>
>On 1/5/07, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
>
>	On Friday 05 January 2007 01:35, Mike Collinson wrote:
>	> I feel that that is what segments are there for, recording local
>	> variations of short geographic extent.  Making a new Way every
time
>a
>	> road crosses a bridge, enters a tunnel, passes a row of houses,
has
>	> an unsealed section, has passing-lane sections, has a cycle lane
>	> entering it ... etc just does not seem practical to me and I don't
>	> have the time.  My rationale is that even if the info doesn't
>render
>	> now, at least it is there.
>
>	This was discussed a few times before (search the archives).
Segments
>may be
>	phased out, and the prevailing opinion was that they shouldn't carry
>any
>	metadata. Ways should definitely be split for bridges, which I admit
>is a bit
>	of a pain. If you're tagging segments then I guess somebody will
need
>to go
>	and clean all that data up another time...
>
>
>If segments ever get phased out then there will have to be some kind of
>automatic conversion.  I would imagine that each distinctly tagged segment
>would become a separate way.  So tagging segments is OK if you can live
>with (very) delayed gratification.  If you want to see results of your work
>this year rather than next year then tagging ways is the thing to do.
>
>We really need some improvements to the client side tools to help make the
>right option the easiest option.  I believe that potlatch is promising to
>deliver a significant improvement for us.
>
>80n
>
>

I'll second Etienne's views here. I have loads of segments still carrying
data, partly because of the early days before ways were implemented so there
will be the need to recognise these if and when segments ever become
obsolete. As he says, I believe the right way to go is to ensure everything
that needs alternative tagging to the rest of a way needs to be a way
itself.

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk

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