[OSM-talk] Rough Tracks

[Paul Johnson]

kaerast wrote:
> Claudius wrote:
> 
>> "Down-grade" them to grade4 or grade5. It's not your job to fix the 
>> router's routing in the data.
>>
> 
> The wiki suggests that the track grades are for surface type rather than 
> usability.  Yet there does also exist surface=* so I'm not sure.  The 
> grades sound like they should be based on how usable or how clear the 
> track is.
> 
> If setting them to grade5 is going to make people and software think 
> they aren't very usable then that seems to be the solution, even though 
> it seems a bit kludgy to me.

The problem is this affects routing software that doesn't suffer from
the same glitch, as well as the same software once the problem is fixed.
 Who wants to go retagging the world just because some routing software
changed?  "Don't tag for the renderer" applies to routing software as
well:  Tag appropriately, then solve the renderer for the data.


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