[OSM-talk] Map Features, maxspeed and maplint

[Shaun McDonald]

On 10 Oct 2008, at 14:27, Chris Hill wrote:

> Dermot McNally wrote:
>> 2008/10/10 Chris Hill <chillly809 at yahoo.co.uk>:
>>
>>
>>> Conversions to 0dp is inaccurate, accurate conversions are a mess,
>>> namespacing allows for conflicting values so only an optional  
>>> suffix really
>>> makes sense, so this why I use.
>>>
>>
>> Well, maxspeed:mph would also work for your purposes. The only
>> difference is that you have chosen to silently ignore the behaviour
>> documented in Map Features. I'm not convinced by your point about
>> conflicts - in a world where a single field can have, essentially,
>> different data types in it, I think we've already sacrificed any
>> pretence of orderliness.
>>
>> Dermot
>>
>>
> maxspeed:mph only conforms to map features because Shaun amended it
> earlier today!!!!!
>
> [listens for the sound of the voting request email to arrive - hears
> nothing]
>

In my opinion the voting process is broken, as it can potentially vote  
in proposals that will break backwards compatibility and require  
extensively more complex processing of the data. Take for example:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Status

(I'm wondering if there is a station out there that has all the  
railway=platforms mapped, rather than just placing a footpath to the  
railway=station node.)

Shaun

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