[OSM-talk] Advanced highway tagging

[Andy Allan]

On Nov 20, 2007 8:19 PM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hmm... It seems like most people on the list dislike any kind of
> > subjective measures of a road's importance.

Subjective anything, to be honest. Subjectivity leads to disagreements
that intrinsically cannot be resolved, and we don't yet have tools for
differences of opinion, revert wars and so on.

> > - Approximate traffic level (low/medium/high)

A bit subjective ;-)

> > However, as I have said before, using solely objective measures to
> > determine the colour of a road on the map is likely to make the map
> > look rather ugly because roads are likely to change colour repeatedly
> > on the map.

Do you have any examples of other maps where road drawing is not based
solely on objective features? I'd be interested to see how they work.
Or are you breaking new (cartographical) ground with trying to combine
autocartography with subjectivity? I can imagine specific cartography
(a map of a limited set of roads, drawn individually by someone)
incorporating specific subjective features, but I'd be interested in
altases or similar doing so).

Cheers,
Andy