[mkgmap-dev] default style improvements

Wed Dec 5 10:21:28 GMT 2018

Hi

I agree that bad tagging should be fixed in OSM but:

1/ some of the tags you mention here are acceptable

2/ it is a continuous job as some common mis-uses just get repeated

3/ its time-consuming

4/ it may be difficult for a non-local person to know exactly what the
highway really is

5/ my intention was to make the default style handle most of what was
thrown at it in a sensible way.

and, not quite related to your point:

6/ Joris has suggested we should avoid mop-ups (generating a slow
routable 0x07 Alley), and I was working towards this but find a large
number where mappers have put the road name as the highway tag and I'd
rather have these on my map.

Ticker

On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 00:03 +0100, Lorenzo Mastrogiacomi wrote:
> I don't think it's a good idea to add other bad highway tags to the
> default style. They should be fixed in osm. I would get rid of all
> these:
> 
> highway=minor
> highway=byway
> highway=driveway
> highway=access
> highway=footpath
> highway=foot
> highway=unsurfaced
> highway=layby
> highway=gallop
> 
> 
> Lorenzo