Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread charlie
Nathan Edgars II (nerou...@gmail.com) wrote: So a trunk road crosses a primary road, but you're not allowed to turn at the crossing. Instead you have to turn before or after and loop around to get from one to the other. If this connecting status is the sole reason through traffic would have

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread charlie
Nathan Edgars II (nerou...@gmail.com) wrote: Charlie wrote: Maybe you could think about it in terms of speed of travel - do cars typically travel at high speeds, moderate speeds or residential speeds - and is the road multi-lane, two-lane etc? That's not what highway classification is for:

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Simone Saviolo
Nathan Edgars II (nerou...@gmail.com) wrote: So a trunk road crosses a primary road, but you're not allowed to turn at the crossing. Instead you have to turn before or after and loop around to get from one to the other. If this connecting status is the sole reason through traffic would have

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/6/17 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: Simone Saviolo wrote: The wiki seems pretty clear to me: the definition for trunk_link says The link roads (sliproads/ramps) leading to/from a trunk road from/to a trunk road or lower class highway. So if this connection leads from a trunk to a

[Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Simone Saviolo wrote: So how would you tag them, so a person or routing software can see which of the many streets is the connection? Again, judging from the pictures, I wouldn't tag any of those ways in a special manner. They're similar streets that form a grid; a routing software just needs

[Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
John Smith wrote: On 17 June 2010 18:49, Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com wrote: But how would the routing software (or person reading the map) know to use these specific streets? In both photos you can see the guide signs that the state has posted to direct traffic along them; it also

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Andre Engels
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com wrote: Seeing the pictures, in fact, I wouldn't tag them as links either. IMHO, they're not really links, they're just streets that happen to offer a connection between the two main roads. I agree, _link does not seem to

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Richard Mann
Nathan - there's some form of setting in your email account that means that every time you reply to a thread we see a new thread starting (dropping the Re: prefix, maybe?). This makes it very hard to follow the thread, as the emails get out of order. On the specific example, in the UK these would

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: Nathan - there's some form of setting in your email account that means that every time you reply to a thread we see a new thread starting (dropping the Re: prefix, maybe?). This makes it very hard to

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Richard Mann
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: On the specific example, in the UK these would be tertiarys: an ordinary street that serves a through or within-city

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - medical=aed

2010-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 June 2010 19:12, MatsH tagging.openstreetmap@mats-hecking.de wrote: I'll be happy about comments, I'd like to set this up fr voting rather quick. I'd be more concerned with comments than getting round to voting since it's mostly pointless. I personally don't see a big issue with this

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Troxel
The only problem is that, in this case, it's not a normal-looking sliproad/ramp, but a surface street that would normally be tagged highway=residential or unclassified. Here are a few examples:

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 16 Jun 2010, at 20:54 , Nathan Edgars II wrote: So a trunk road crosses a primary road, but you're not allowed to turn at the crossing. Instead you have to turn before or after and loop around to get from one to the other. If this connecting status is the sole reason through traffic would

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Advanced stop line

2010-06-17 Thread Alex Wardle
Could people please look and vote on this proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Advanced_stop_line ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
So it looks like the general consensus is that a link should only intersect other links except at the ends? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags?

2010-06-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/6/17 Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:21 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Everything you talked about above is specifically about rendering, not about mapping, in terms of mapping airports you really need to base things on a 1:1 basis  If you

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/6/17 char...@cferrero.net: The highway tag is the primary tag used for highways. It is often the only tag.  It is a very general and sometimes vague description of the importance of the highway for the road grid. The term importance isn't defined Why shouldn't importance not be

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Advanced stop line

2010-06-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/6/17 Alex Wardle awar...@gmx.com: Could people please look and vote on this proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Advanced_stop_line IMHO before voting you should make the actual tags to describe the situation more visible on the proposal page. There were also

Re: [Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

2010-06-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: So it looks like the general consensus is that a link should only intersect other links except at the ends? Clarification: I mean that each independent section of the link or connecting string of links should intersect

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags?

2010-06-17 Thread Zeke Farwell
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Although there are other uses of map data, the primary use is for renderers. We don't abuse our own tagging systems to suit a specific version of a specific renderer, but we certainly tag for renderers... Going out of