[OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

[Anthony]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> That will not write itself. Do you expect us to
> successfully digitize and maintain a database of all laws of all
> countries? In a wiki, even? That's ambitious! I'd prefer to stick to
> mapping what's on the ground.

You can map what's on the ground, then.  But in order to make a decent
routing application, someone is going to have to maintain a database
of certain laws in any states they wish for their routing application
to work.  There's really no question about that.  The only question is
whether you want to store that information in every single element of
the database, or store it once for each jurisdiction.

I vote for once for each jurisdiction.  But I vote strongly against
doing so using a wiki.