[OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:18 PM, spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de> wrote:

> 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
>

Ah, so I only need 6249 more loonies! :-) Thanks for the data to back this
up. I'm actually okay with the change, but I'm concerned with the cavalier
manner in which it was done.

Karl
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