Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-26 Thread John Smith
On 26 October 2010 07:53, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: I would consider those to be informal=yes, were I to use this tag. As Felix pointed out, that doesn't add anything useful to describe the current state of the path, only how it may have been formed, the first picture you posted

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/25 Felix Hartmann extremecar...@gmail.com: There is no such thing as informal. maybe you should rename your username from extremecarver to extremeopinionist ;-) Of course there are informal ways/paths. Not every informal looking path is indeed informal, but that doesn't imply that there

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/25 Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net: I would consider those to be informal=yes, were I to use this tag. you _are_ to use this tag, go ahead ;-) cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/26 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 26 October 2010 07:53, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: I would consider those to be informal=yes, were I to use this tag. As Felix pointed out, that doesn't add anything useful to describe the current state of the path, only how it

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-26 Thread John Smith
On 26 October 2010 20:34, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/26 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 26 October 2010 07:53, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: I would consider those to be informal=yes, were I to use this tag. As Felix pointed out, that doesn't

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: I think that 4-way and 3-way stops can be handled unambiguously by highway=stop. More complex stops should probably be modeled with turn restrictions. type=restriction restriction=stop roles=from,to,via But a stop

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread John Smith
On 27 October 2010 00:17, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: What's wrong with something like highway:forward=stop or highway:backward=stop for the node where one must stop? Editors won't honour that sort of detail, so if the direction of the way is flipped for what ever reason than the

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: But a stop sign isn't a restriction; it has the main effect of slowing average speed. If our router is so precise that the seconds added by a stop sign count, it can easily calculate the nearest intersection to each

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: What's wrong with something like highway:forward=stop or highway:backward=stop for the node where one must stop? How does that capture

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:27 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 October 2010 00:17, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: What's wrong with something like highway:forward=stop or highway:backward=stop for the node where one must stop? Editors won't honour that sort of

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:27 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 October 2010 00:17, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: What's wrong with something like highway:forward=stop or

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread john
The amount of delay varies according to the traffic, particularly in cases where one cross-street is not required to stop at the intersection. I have encountered intersections where, at rush hour, you effectively can't make a left turn from the side street, or go straight across, because the

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
What about putting stop signs beside the way at their actual position? This would indicate the direction automatically (dependent if the traffic is right or left-sided) and is error prone to direction changes of the way. Any potential router could evaluate those in preprocessing while building the

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:01 AM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: The amount of delay varies according to the traffic, particularly in cases where one cross-street is not required to stop at the intersection.  I have encountered intersections where, at rush hour, you effectively can't make a

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: What about putting stop signs beside the way at their actual position? This would indicate the direction automatically (dependent if

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:01 AM,  j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: The amount of delay varies according to the traffic, particularly in cases where one cross-street is not required to stop at the intersection.  I have encountered intersections where, at rush

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-26 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/26/2010 05:32 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: you _are_ to use this tag, go ahead ;-) Thanks, but it’s not that I feel restricted from using this tag. I just don’t feel the need to tag paths as being informal; highway=path is quite enough for my purposes. —Alex Mauer “hawke”

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:46 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: What about putting stop signs beside the way at their actual position? This would indicate

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 26.10.2010 16:50, schrieb Anthony: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:27 AM, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 October 2010 00:17, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: What's wrong with something

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: Am 26.10.2010 16:50, schrieb Anthony: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com  wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:27 AM, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com  wrote: On 27 October

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/26 sylvain letuffe li...@letuffe.org: Some people advocate this should be a tagged as highway=path+via_ferrata_scale=something, I don't. I agree, that would harm more then help. But the informal path this thread is about, unless I haven't been able to understand what it really

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:14 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/26 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: How would you handle this case? http://www.leevartanian.com/2008/07/02/alto/ It makes more sense to mark where you have to stop, not where the sign telling you to

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:16 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: See attached. Do both streets have a stop sign, or does one street have two stop signs? I'd say: bad mapping. Put the signs nearer to the road so it is clear which road they

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 26.10.2010 17:50, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2010/10/26 Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com: You'd probably need a relation to assign each stop sign to the street. This seems like a lot of work for something so common. no, you wouldn't need any relation and would give the work over to the

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:16 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: See attached.  Do both streets have a stop sign, or does one street have two stop signs? I'd say: bad mapping. Put the signs nearer to the road so it is clear which road

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 26.10.2010 20:00, schrieb Anthony: Right, that's where the 99%/1% thing comes into place. I don't think it's true that 100% of stop signs face opposite the nearest intersection. So there has to be a tag for those exceptions. Now, you could say that the tag is only needed for those

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: While I agree completely at avoiding relations, that's a hard task for the router. It's extremly much work to take in account data combined with the data you need only via the coordinates as source. Node on the

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: Am 26.10.2010 20:00, schrieb Anthony: Right, that's where the 99%/1% thing comes into place.  I don't think it's true that 100% of stop signs face opposite the nearest intersection.  So there has to be a tag for

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 26.10.2010 20:35, schrieb Anthony: Perhaps you are right - but please, can you give me an example? I cannot imagine why there should be a stop sign without intersection. I'll try to get you an example, but first you have to precisely define intersection using words like way, node, highway,

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: Am 26.10.2010 20:35, schrieb Anthony: Perhaps you are right - but please, can you give me an example? I cannot imagine why there should be a stop sign without intersection. I'll try to get you an example, but

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/26 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:16 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: See attached.  Do both streets have a stop sign, or does one street have two stop signs? I'd say: bad mapping. Put the signs

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-26 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:31:40 +0200 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I am speaking of narrow (in all cases below 1 metre, I'd say less then 0.5 m actually, usually 20-30 cm). They have to be not planned, not maintained, ground surface: they are simply there because people (or

Re: [Tagging] What tags to use on a scenic route?

2010-10-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/26 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: The WTO definition is better for mapping purposes. Otherwise I have to decide if a hotel is used by 'business' guests or 'holiday' guests. These uses of a hotel do overlap. IMHO this is an argument against tourism as such: it is not even clear

Re: [Tagging] highway=informal_path WAS: Re: new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-26 Thread Ralf Kleineisel
On 10/25/2010 10:29 AM, Simone Saviolo wrote: For example, what would you tag this? http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8hq=hnear=Vercelli,+Piedmont,+Italyll=45.314604,8.414012spn=0.001633,0.004128t=hz=19layer=ccbll=45.314594,8.413845panoid=VAMbvxwaZiigA_JUOfHBkwcbp=12,348.5,,0,31.53 Path,

Re: [Tagging] Difference between footway and pedestrian

2010-10-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/26 Noel David Torres Taño env...@rolamasao.org: There are two values highway=footway and highway=pedestrian and I do not know which are the differences between them. The wiki does not contain a decisive difference mark. footways are generally smaller. pedestrian indicates a road but

Re: [Tagging] Difference between footway and pedestrian

2010-10-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote: Basically pedestrian is for things in urban areas, like streets, footway is for paths in parks and in woods.. Not quite. Sidewalks in urban areas are highway=footway. Highway=pedestrian is essentially something that could

Re: [Tagging] Difference between footway and pedestrian

2010-10-26 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Martes 26 Octubre 2010 22:33:35 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer escribió: 2010/10/26 Noel David Torres Taño env...@rolamasao.org: There are two values highway=footway and highway=pedestrian and I do not know which are the differences between them. The wiki does not contain a decisive difference

Re: [Tagging] Difference between footway and pedestrian

2010-10-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Noel David Torres Taño env...@rolamasao.org wrote: Thanks to both. My problem is this: I have a street in a city, in a pedestrian zone, but it is small enough to be unsuitable for cars. I don't think there's a clear line. If it has a name that suggests it was

Re: [Tagging] Difference between footway and pedestrian

2010-10-26 Thread Richard Mann
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Noel David Torres Taño env...@rolamasao.org wrote: Thanks to both. My problem is this: I have a street in a city, in a pedestrian zone, but it is small enough to be unsuitable for cars. Near that, I have another one, just in the limits of the urban zone (maybe

Re: [Tagging] highway=informal_path WAS: Re: new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-26 Thread Dave F.
On 25/10/2010 09:29, Simone Saviolo wrote: For example, what would you tag this? http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8hq=hnear=Vercelli,+Piedmont,+Italyll=45.314604,8.414012spn=0.001633,0.004128t=hz=19layer=ccbll=45.314594,8.413845panoid=VAMbvxwaZiigA_JUOfHBkwcbp=12,348.5,,0,31.53 highway=path.