[OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off...

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Wed Jun 2 17:48:01 BST 2010


On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I map, I just want to create a useful map. And when I write
> software it should be backward compatible with old data and forward
> compatible with new data and still give reasonable results. I don't
> want to waste time on finding the legal status of everything.
>

Then don't use tags which indicate the legal status.  Easy peasy, right?

The rest of your post focused on what a "routing engine" should do.  But
this discussion isn't about the routing engine.  Different routing engines
are going to have different rules.  This is about the data, and the data
should be unambiguous.  That means not using the same tag for "illegal" and
"bad for the environment" and "unsafe".
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