[OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhauser at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 20:57:40 BST 2010


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> For 1 - seriously, you do. In the UK we don't have some roads tagged
>> "A3400"
>> and others tagged "A-3400" and others tagged "CNSE" (Chipping Norton
>> Stratford Expressway, _obviously_): they're all tagged a la "A3400". Our
>> roads are coherently classified according to the UK highway system, even
>> though it might seem counterintuitive (we tag non-primary A roads as
>> "highway=primary" - well, so what). As a result our map looks lovely. If
>> you
>> get your shit together than your map will look lovely too.
>>
>
>  First we even have to agree on how it *should* be in the US.  There were
> some arguments on one of the lists, but like everything else, I don't think
> it's settled.   Now that we have relations, etc, the single agreed-on style
> can be applied later with a bot after we decide how they should be ref'd or
> named in the relation.
>
>
> Aside from labels, the main issue is what trunk/primary/secondary means in
the US, as we're trying to shoehorn the US system into the British schema.
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