[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

Karl Newman siliconfiend at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 14:48:45 BST 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 April 2008 14:45:17 Steve Hill wrote:
> > The problem is that the context isn't clear since there is no designated
> > "context" tag - i.e. if you have a way tagged with highway=climbing and
> > rock=limestone, is the context provided by the highway tag or the rock
> > tag?
>
> A machine wouldn't know without a set of rules or a hierarchy. But the
> human
> brain is a lot more sophisticated than a machine, plus it is filled with
> lots
> of "background" knowledge. Therefore a human (of sufficient intelligence)
> wouldn't have a problem in deciding that the highway is more important
> than
> the rock in a database called OpenSteetMap.
>
As someone else aptly put it earlier: OSM is about being machine-readable,
otherwise it might as well be OpenAerialMap.

Karl
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