[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Geo-Locate the Haiti Hospitals Challenge]

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Hi Frederik,

Look more carefully. I was just forwarding. I have no opinion on this, 
except that it looked relevant to OSM-talk.

Jean-Guilhem


Frederik Ramm a écrit :
> Hi,
>
>> AN URGENT NEED in addtion to the hospitals is to clean up the road 
>> type tags to correspond with the humanitarian presets. 
>
> Hold it right there!
>
> I think there is a limit to just how much OSM will stretch and bend to 
> match the needs of users. OSM is, first and foremost, a world-wide 
> mapping project, and secondly, something that comes in handy in a 
> crisis. OSM is not primarily a crisis mapping system.
>
> Crisis or no crisis, we have an established system of mapping roads. 
> Your presets file contains only the types "primary, secondary, 
> tertiary, footway". OSM mappers are used to a more fine-grained 
> approach and I do not think that just because our approach proves too 
> complex for outsiders we should simply discard it.
>
> It is ok for newbie mappers to stick to a small number of road types, 
> but your request to "clean up" existing data to only use these four 
> types does cross a border with me. We'll do a lot to make our data 
> usable, but we will not throw half of it away just because you 
> currently don't see use for it.
>
> There is a tag transform plugin for OSM. If you want data that uses 
> only four different road types, then we can translate OSM road types 
> to your four types; but I am very much against ignoring established 
> OSM practice  just because users cannot be bothered to distinguish a 
> track from a path.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
>