[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

[Lambertus]

So you suggest the community negotiates one list with defaults for each 
type of road that applies worldwide? Mappers have to apply appropriate 
tags on roads (countries) that don't fit this default?

That does not solve the problem where mappers visit a foreign country. 
They still need to do a lookup to see which tags should be applied. It 
only makes it easier for end users (e.g. route planners).

PS. Does this mean that Gosmore will soon obey to maxspeed tags? ;-)


Nic Roets wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se 
> <mailto:lars at aronsson.se>> wrote:
> 
>     Here you assume that "trunk" is a well defined concept.  But it
>     isn't. 
> 
> 
> Spot on.
> 
> And defining things per country leads to all sorts of problem. For 
> example mappers applying domestic rules when visiting foreign countries. 
> Confusion when debugging routing software. Next mappers will omit units 
> of measurement because they feel it it's implied for their country.
> 
> The solution is for editors to create defaults for these disputed access 
> restriction tags and allow users to change them before committing them 
> to the database.
> 
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