[OSM-talk] [tagging] Road crossings proposal - status?

[Alex Mauer]

Andy Allan wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
> 
>>  Hmm, I see it differently.  As I recall:
>>  *Some people said "this is the way it will be".  Since they have dev
>>  access, they also added their method to the rendering system,
> 
> Let me be blunt: I don't have dev access, and I don't have SVN access
> either. So stop with the moaning, and get your facts straight.

I didn't say you personally did that.  But if the group of people using 
this crossing scheme were tagging *and rendering* crossings, someone had 
to have done the rendering bit -- and they would have needed access to 
modify the rendering system.

> Oh noes! Since it seems that you'll moan about it not being documented
> 12 hours ago, and then moan when I actually do, whilst not raising a
> finger to help either way, then you must be out to moan rather than
> help.

I'm not interested in tagging animal crossings.  Naturally I'm not going 
to try to document the intricacies of british naming conventions for 
their road crossings when: I will never have occasion to use them as I 
don't live or map in Britain; I am unfamiliar with names for these 
specialised crossings for the same reason; I am more interested in 
having something usable by the world.


> And for the record, you're the one on the wiki quoting stats from a UK
> excerpt, whereas I'm concentrating on figures for the whole planet. 

I'm quoting stats from a UK excerpt because that's the only place where 
they're used that I could find in tagwatch.  Now perhaps they're in 
widespread use someplace else that I missed, or perhaps I should be 
using something other than tagwatch.  Do you have usage figures for the 
whole planet?

-Alex Mauer "hawke"