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

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 2:46 PM john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So probably what we need is a set of defaults by country which will cause
> no end of debate.
>

And by country, you mean local jurisdiction, since at least in the US,
towns, cities, counties, states, tribal jurisdictions and sometimes
regional administrative bodies have authority on setting fiddly rules for
how traffic works.  Sometimes concurrently overlapping areas.

>From a database size setting the default of all highways are
> surface=asphalt and lanes=2, and lit in Ottawa would be wonderful but you
> need to ask the question what happens when a new inexperienced mapper comes
> along?
>

Also lanes=2 is *not* accurate any time a third lane gets added for
turns...really think the maproulette task for adding lane counts did more
harm than good in retrospect.
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