[OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki "map features"

[DavidD]

2008/11/25 Robert Vollmert <rvollmert-lists at gmx.net>:

> Personally, I don't see what's wrong with distinguishing between a
> normal paved road and one that's suitable for inline skating with
> smoothness=good vs. smoothness=excellent. Or between roughly
> cobblestoned road and the one most people wouldn't mind riding a
> bicycle on with smoothness=bad vs. smoothness=intermediate. What's
> your way to tag surface quality?

Who knows what you can or can't inline skate on? Who knows what makes
a sports car a sports car? What's the difference between a trekking
bike and a city bike? What's the worst terrain a tractor can handle?
I've never even seen a rickshaw and how many people have ridden in a
wheelchair?

It's impossible for me to use the tag because it requires quite
intricate knowledge of several different forms of transport of which I
have no experience. Then there is the slight problem that I would put
the forms of transport I do know about in different places in the
table.

I might be wrong here but it looks like the whole tag originated to
document if a road can be used easily by a racing bike. If people who
have never ridden a racing bike use the tag how good is that data
going to be? IMO the effort to get it on map features means the tag
now fails to solve the original problem.

Is trying to get specialised tags through a majority vote ever going
to work? Would it not have been better just to come up with a tag,
document it on the wiki and start using it?

-- 
DavidD