[OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism

[Alex Mauer]

On 08/26/2009 05:23 AM, Lulu-Ann at gmx.de wrote:
> There was a change on the highway key wiki page, that interferes with the concept presented here.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Key%3Ahighway&diff=317630&oldid=317451
> 
> User Dieterdreist has changed the description so the highway tag is no longer used for the objective physical description but for a subjective feeling of "importance". Millions of highway tags would need to be reviewed if this change without proposal and approval would become valid.

IMHO, this is just putting the description in line with actual usage.
The highway tag is inadequate as a physical description of the way.  The
only one that takes physical structure into account at all is motorway,
and that's only in how other roads connect to it; not how the road
itself is built.

Please consider
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Highway_administrative_and_physical_descriptions
if you need a tag which actually does cover physical structure.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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