[OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Sat Jan 2 13:48:21 GMT 2010


Steve
>     NOTHING should dictate that removing physical data is the 'correct'
>     way of mapping!
> 
> That's rather an extreme point of view. No professionally produced maps 
> contain "everything". Nor do the databases from which they are derived. 
> "Everything" is not achievable, so let's not aim for it. Instead, let's 
> work out what we value most of all, set some priorities, and focus our 
> efforts accordingly.

Eventually it would be nice to be able to correctly use areas for every feature 
that actually covers an area. Rivers, parks and the like already are but can 
also be accessed as a single 'reference' at a higher level. There is no real 
dispute BETWEEN A and B, but it must be possible to view the data either at the 
B level ... a connection between X and Y which you can cycle down ... and the A 
level where the widths are displayed accurately so one can see if one can cycle 
2 or more abreast. Complex tags can be added to 'B' to provide the width, 
distance for some other way and the like, but that is no substitute for actually 
mapping the information on the ground. So really all that is required a relation 
between the A and B views of the world?

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