[OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

Alex L. Mauer hawke at hawkesnest.net
Sun Apr 20 17:37:48 BST 2008


Jeffrey Martin wrote:
> I think free tagging is great, but we should not allow multiple
> definitions for each tag.
> A tag should not indicate both it's legal status and it's structure,
> although one might
> imply the other under certain circumstances.

Well, that's an unfortunate fact of the 'highway' tag.  It was written
to indicate both legal status and physical structure.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

-- 
Bad - You get pulled over for doing 90 in a school zone and you're drunk
off your ass again at three in the afternoon.
Worse - The cop is drunk too, and he's a mean drunk.
FUCK! - A mean drunk that's actually a swarm of semi-sentient
flesh-eating beetles.
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