[OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

[Chris Hill]

NopMap wrote:
> Hi!
>   
> A consistent, easy-to-use set of tags would spare mappers from spending time
> trying to figure out how to do something that has been figured out many
> times before or which contradictive information to follow.
>   
As I map a road I've not visited before, I don't consider using  
highway=street_with_houses, I add highway=residential . If I see a road 
sign with a speed limit I add maxspeed=30mph, not 
restriction:speed=30mph or legal_constraint_on_speed=30mph. I don't 
agonise over the tag to use to label the plaque that describes the title 
of the street allocated by the council, I just add a name=* tag.  All of 
this is listed on a single page in the wiki - it's even printed on a 
mug! Why is this so hard?
> Instead mappers would be free to simply do what they enjoy - mapping.
>   
If you have a fixed list then suddenly this enjoyable mapping experience 
becomes a frustrating battle when someone sees something that they want 
to add but it's not in the list, so it can't be added.

Cheers, Chris