[OSM-talk] A process for rethinking map features

Roy Wallace waldo000000 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 23:52:21 BST 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Richard
Mann<richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I've picked up Dave's point above, because it's clear that part of the
> "real" problem is that adhoc committees sometimes don't take account of the
> implications for particular data users (and stylesheets may be the most
> complicated data user). In this case "let's trash footway/cycleway" becomes
> a major problem of deciphering tag-combinations. Maybe we need some "meta
> rules" for the process, that recognises the scale of problems that could be
> created for data users, and proceeds judiciously.

If anything, I think the process could be guided better not by more
emphasis on "problems created for data users", but on more focus on
the very long term, very broad scope goal of a complete map of the
entire world.




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