[OSM-talk] Good practice, and should we rely on defaults?

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 1:03 PM Yves via talk <talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> I wonder if using defaults from an external database (let say we have it)
> and analyse it with our boundaries is really more efficient than tagging
> everything?
>
> Also, asphalt is certainly granted in Germany on major roads, but this is
> not the case where the majority of the world population lives. Why would a
> data consumer have to post-process our data differently depending on the
> place in scope on a worldwide dataset ?
>
> Last, assuming a default where no knowledgeable mapper have put is foot
> (or mouse) is certainly a mistake.
>

Plus it's not an unreasonable assumption that the consumer is a computer
that has no reasonable idea what the default is outside the developer's
part of the world.
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