[OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

[spaetz]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:34:06AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote:

> So now I decide that since I drive really fast down my driveway, I should
> call it highway=motorway and start tagging driveways that way. Since that's
> "how it's used", I'm going to change Map Features to reflect that. Okay,
> that's a bit extreme, but really, care should be taken when changing Map
> Features since that's what the mappers rely on.

highway=track
tracktype=grade1  	6520

Seems to be used 6520 times in Germany alone, according to tagwatch. That hardly qualifies as a single loonie, doing nonsense. I agree that changing map_features should be done carefully. But in this case it seems absurd to bnot change it.

spaetz