[OSM-talk] Path rendering in the cycleway

DavidD thewinch at gmail.com
Sun Aug 31 17:14:58 BST 2008


2008/8/31 Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com>:

> i think we could bring a semblance of sanity and consistency to the
> tag proposal and voting process quite simply

I think by far the largest issue with the current process is unless
you push a proposal it probably won't go anywhere. Proposals can sit
dormant for more than a year even if there is currently no way to tag
the feature in map features.
While many missing features sit dormant highway=path access=designated
goes to vote twice. A proposal that from the discussion is hard to
implement and appears to not really allow anything new to be tagged.
This discussion is after all about a path tagged highway=path;
foot=designated. I presume that could just as well be tagged
highway=footway; foot=yes. Of course since designated breaks the
access tag it could just as easily be highway=footway;
access=permissive.

I think people who are happy with the current tagging scheme would
welcome sanity and consistency but who would enforce it? I think the
work would be unglamorous, boring and time consuming. Would anybody
that didn't have an axe to grind with the current tagging scheme
really want to sink so much time into babysitting proposals? I suspect
it might end up just giving authority to people trying to reorganise
map features and the proplem would end up worse.

-- 
DavidD




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