[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Proliferation of path vs. footway]

["Marc Schütz"]

> You seem to be implying that increasing the amount of data in OSM is a
> bad thing???

Increasing the amount of _implicit_ data surely is. There are good reasons, why putting implicit data into databases is usually avoided.

> 
> Of course, llama access restrictions probably aren't a top priority,
> but it IS a GOOD THING to have llama restrictions in the database.
> 
> The core issue here (that I believe we agree on) is that if tags have
> inconsistent implications, they must be made explicit.

But in most cases they are locally consistent, thus it makes sense to simply assume different defaults for different countries/jurisdictions.

Regards, Marc

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