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

[Lester Caine]

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> >  highway=*
>> >  link=yes
>
> actually I like this, but it's not the first time it is proposed here,
> and I think you can hardly change tags used as often and for so long
> time as this. It would probably end up in a similar mess than path and
> footway.

A number of the 'base' decisions would now make a lot more sense done a 
different way, but at the time there were very good reasons for choices then. 
With the amount of additional data now being handled, adding even more tags for 
some of the old basics while possible would just cause agro everywhere. Exactly 
as we now have in things like path.

I don't know where the discussion on virtual tags got to? These are tags built 
from finer detail when using the data from a lower resolution. In this case of 
highway=x, link=yes would return the single tag highway=x_link and applications 
that do not need to bother with any other tags can carry on working happily with 
just the highway tag ...

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