[OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

[Ed Avis]

Frederik Ramm <frederik <at> remote.org> writes:
 
>Instead of trying to create authoritative wiki pages, we must make it 
>clear to everyone that these pages are *not* authoritative.

Right.  This is the alternative I alluded to: accept that the meaning of tags
is not reliably documented anywhere.

To the newcomer, it appears that the web pages on the openstreetmap.org site
are the project's official documentation.  You then get a bit of a shock when
you try to file bugs, edit the map or post to the mailing list using the pages
as documentation, only to be told that 'random people on the wiki' do not
determine the correct way to tag things.  As others before me have said,
it's a mess.

If we accept that the wiki is not authoritative then we could carry this to
its logical conclusion by moving it to a different domain and not linking to it
from the main osm site.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>