Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-21 Thread Dave F.
Paul Johnson wrote: If it really doesn't have any name at all, then noname=yes is awesome because it solves the human problem, too. This discussion has been flogged to death on other forums, but obviously needs repeating. People are incorrectly marking ways with noname=yes just because

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/21 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: Paul Johnson wrote: If it really doesn't have any name at all, then noname=yes is awesome because it solves the human problem, too. This discussion has been flogged to death on other forums, but obviously needs repeating. People are incorrectly

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-21 Thread Pieren
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote: Indeed, most round abouts have names, even if they are unmarked. You should better say In my country, most... because it's not generaly the case in mine. Note that only Cloudmade's lint and JOSM validator seem to complain

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-20 Thread Richard Mann
Excuse my ignorance. Junction=roundabout is the right tag. I was just keeping the load down on the wiki server. :) Richard On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:52 AM, G Zamboni gd.zamb...@tiscali.it wrote: I agree that noname=yes is not a good solution, but I don't understand why roundabout=yes...

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-20 Thread Dave F.
Pieren wrote: Well, if it is really a roundabout, it is already tagged with junction=roundabout. What we need is that KeepRight does NOT consider as an error an unnamed highway with junction=roundabout. Pieren No Pieren Even if it has a junction=roundabout tag it's still an error without

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-20 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: No Pieren Even if it has a junction=roundabout tag it's still an error without a highway=* tag, which is what I think Mike N. was talking about in the OP. Not sure. It's a guess. Changing the highway category to road might

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-20 Thread Mike N.
You seem a bit unclear. Do you mean name as in name=The Cyril Smith Roundabout or highway=trunk etc? I was referring to whether the name= tag is required. Thanks for the answers, the consensus is that it is not required for roundabouts with no name. If the former, not all have a

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-20 Thread Mike N.
Not sure. It's a guess. Changing the highway category to road might disable the check in KeepRight. highway=road is like leaving an implied FIXME=yes tag, according to the wiki. I'd prefer the nonname=yes workaround, if any. I mentioned KeepRight, but it turns out that KeepRight and the

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-20 Thread Dave F.
Mike N. wrote: highway=road is like leaving an implied FIXME=yes tag, according to the wiki. I'd prefer the nonname=yes workaround, if any. We need to be clear on this - Highway=* name=* are mutually exclusive. You can't substitute one for the other. Highway=* is compulsory, name=* is

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Pieren wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: noname=yes Oh dear. What is the next step, noname=yes on all unnamed buildings if KeepRight tells you it is an error ? Nobody would expect every last building to be named. People generally expect

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009-11-19 Thread Dave F.
Mike N. wrote: I have run into several un-named roundabouts which contain 3-6 feeder roads. Keepright, etc consider an unnamed road as an error. I could use highway=road, but this is described as an implied FIXME=yes. I could possibly assign the name of the most important feeder road.