[OSM-talk] highway=track and motorcar=yes/no

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2008 schrieb sylvain letuffe:
> > It may be better to let each country decide for itself in the end I
> > guess.
>
> Well, I'm not so sure of that.
> I would prefere the editors to have the defaults defined depending on the
> country and record in the database a world wide established "scheme"
>
> Only in this way can we have a global randering, routing software that
> developpers don't need to tweak with 256 differtent country/interpretation
>
>
> JOSM "could" be extended to ask in the install : are you mapping in Germany
> or in Italy ?
>
> If germany, a track could be recorded as :
> highway=track
> motorcar=no
>
> In Italy, a track could be recorded as :
> highway=track
> motocar=yes

I like this idea of having country specific presets in the editors instead of 
having renderers to be country sprecific.

Frederik, 

what do yo think?

Thanks,
Rainer


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