[OSM-talk] New "Highways" view in OSM Inspector

[Jochen Topf]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 06:39:16PM +1000, John Smith wrote:
> 2010/1/8 Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org>:
> > I think "don't map for the renderer" is a nice idea, but has nothing to do with
> 
> Don't map "incorrectly" for the renderer to have it show up a certain way...

You put "incorrectly" into quotes, I guess because you know (as we all do) that
we can´t decide whats correct and whats not. Correctness just isn´t a useful
concept in the OSM world. I´d much rather use "usefulness" as the concept we
should embrace. We should strive to make the data useful for as many uses as
possible. If the data is only useful for once specific rendering, its not as
useful as other data that works in many renderers. But having it work in one
is better than no data at all. Its nice if the data conforms to some
theoretical ideal, but that alone doesn´t mean its useful.

Jochen
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