[OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

Roy Wallace waldo000000 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 20:40:34 GMT 2010


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Richard Mann
<richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps we do need to fork the project and create openmap.org so we can
>> get away from a fundamental belief that 'the road rules'? But all I am
>> 'shouting for' is that there are hooks to maintain a hierarchy of detail as
>> one moves from a macro to micro view. If people only want a 'road map' or
>> 'cycleway map', then that is not a problem, but it should not then prevent
>> the fine detail from being maintained below it?
>
> If the micro view is on a separate data layer then I've absolutely no
> problem with it (I just don't think it's the core project).

Uh-oh, I don't think it's worth arguing about what the "core" of OSM is.

Lester's right - for micro-mapping, it's "not about 'catching on' but
rather about 'making provision for'".

Richard, I think it's possible to make provision for micro-mapping on
the same data layer. There's just a few issues to work through.




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