[OSM-talk] Path rendering in the cycleway

[Erik Johansson]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net> wrote:
> Erik Johansson wrote:
>> Sprinkle your data with note="bla bla" tags so it's possible to see
>> what the meaning was.
>
> So your solution is to have a database which is human-understandable
> (with a lot of reading and effort) but not computer-understandable?
>
> That seems to break rather a large number of usage scenarios for OSM data...

I was unclear, I referred to describing my tag data with note="" tags,
not way data.

Actually that is the solution of Openstreetmap, imperfect data. If the
small contributors document why and how they tag something, you will
at least be able to use their data for further mapping even though
it's ambiguous to a computer.

Small time contributors might be driven by how software use the data,
though. So that give you the structured data you want. Less creativity
though.


Have a nice Autum
/Erik