On 23/08/2010 10:03, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
leisure = openair_stage or leisure=open_air_stage?
osmdoc (specifically http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/leisure/#values) doesn't
have either as of August 2009. Maybe an XAPI check somehere where you
know some have been mapped might suggest one or the
On 23/08/2010 15:31, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2010/8/23 Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com:
Hell no. That would be a parking lane, not suitable for cycling.
Picture a typical bike lane; now remove all signage and markings
calling it a bike lane. Here's an example:
On 27/08/2010 13:42, Pieren wrote:
Again, I'm not a native english speaker but It seems that culvert is
also used to designate a bridge. Some quick searches on internet:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Culvert_2_%28PSF%29.png
http://www.rommesmo.com/steeltruss.htm
or tunnels:
On 28/08/2010 10:51, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
You can actually see informal footways/paths quite well in aerial
imagery. If they are there and you have good resolution images.
Usually the grass is aside then, because grass doesn't grow where
people (or animals) walk. It disappears even if it
On 30/08/2010 21:48, Pieren wrote:
And if you go ahead with this article:
When boxes or pipes are placed side-by-side to create a width of
greater than twenty feet, the culvert is defined as a bridge in the
United States
And if you go on reading it says This is a requirement of the federal
On 01/09/2010 20:24, Anthony wrote:
All the
examples of waterways on that wiki page are open.
Well; normally open -
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.327lon=-1.74192zoom=14 is an
example of a bit of canal that isn't
In any case, as I said, there's no reason the default has to be the
On 01/09/2010 20:53, Anthony wrote:
Can you pardon my laziness and tell me whether or not the water in
that part of the canal fills the entire tunnel.
It doesn't - there's a narrow footpath to the side (presumably where
boats were pulled along manually - the horses had to take the path over
On 01/09/2010 21:42, Anthony wrote:
(While looking at this I also noticed we have barrier=ditch and
waterway=ditch. That also sucks, unless there's some distinction
between the two.
Presumably that's different wiki editors arriving at the same feature
from different angles? I'd say there
On 07/09/2010 16:55, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I already voted yes, but actually agricultural_engines doesn't
correspond to Landmaschinen, it might be agricultural_machinery, see
here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_machinery
(but this article actually looks like it was created by a
On 10/09/2010 11:14, Tobias Knerr wrote:
Lulu-Ann wrote:
I would like to add loc_name-tags for this and name ways like footway from village
A to B, west of footway crossing in MyWoodName
Yes: Don't use loc_name (or any other key that contains name) for
this. It's not a name. It's a
On 26/09/2010 23:35, vclaw wrote:
I have created a proposal for mapping social clubs, by tagging as
leisure=social_club.
See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/social_club
Not amenity=social_club? That seems to be in more widespread use...
On 27/09/2010 01:55, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:36 PM, SomeoneElse
li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
Not amenity=social_club? That seems to be in more widespread use...
Why would we use amenity when we have a more specific key (leisure)
that fits perfectly?
Your're
On 12/10/2010 06:39, Peter Budny wrote:
I've noticed that some bridges and tunnels I've edited previously no
longer have layer=* tags on them. I could swear they did before. Is
there some bot (or person) going through and removing them?
There was a bot a couple of years ago that ADDED layer
On 13/10/2010 09:30, Lennard wrote:
And how exactly would the craft tag become widely used if people have
to out on a limb to find it, exactly because it's not mentioned in the
Map Features? This will only hamper adoption.
Because they do a search of the wiki (and the mailing lists, and
It might seem a silly question, but what's a truck? You're correct that
HGV in the UK has a specific legal meaning*, but does truck have one
in the US?
If it doesn't, would something like a Ford F-series count? What
something like an El Camino?
Cheers,
Andy
* Westminster Council via
On 19/11/2010 13:40, Richard Welty wrote:
On 11/19/10 8:27 AM, SomeoneElse wrote:
It might seem a silly question, but what's a truck? You're correct
that HGV in the UK has a specific legal meaning*, but does truck
have one in the US?
If it doesn't, would something like a Ford F-series count
On 11/02/2011 12:40, Steve Bennett wrote:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/tags/man_made=dolphin
Any ideas?
Not a clue. But the XAPI's up at the moment, so you can ask the mappers
concerned.
Also:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/43180471
note
On 18/02/2011 15:23, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
I believe the word is contraflow.
Contraflow is certainly the version always used in the UK (generally
preceded by an expletive, as in stuck in a *** contraflow for two
hours).
A quick web search found both counterflow and contraflow; maybe
On 17/03/2011 14:15, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
I'd like to suggest collapsing these two tags into a unified tag and
making a final vote, and then fixing tags as necessary.
I'd be happy to use whichever tag has the wider acceptance. All the
footway=left/right/both that I've added have been
On 17/03/2011 14:53, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:42 AM,j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
Collapsing the two tags into one seems reasonable, but there should continue to
be a wiki page for whichever tag is discontinued, in order to direct people to
the preferred tag.
That's
On 21/03/2011 16:29, David Paleino wrote:
What I understood was that the first tagging example of my page was
that [1]
was generally accepted.
[1]:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Hanska/Sidewalk#Mapping_as_a_separate_way
The original page said something like:
if ( sidewalk is a
On 21/03/2011 20:04, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
That's partially true- it's true we have no official tags, but it's
also true that the tags which are approved are the ones which get
rendered, and the ones who people write software against.
Well - sort-of. There's a correlation between what gets
Er - I'm confused.
We've now got:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/sloped_curb
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/kerb
On 31/03/2011 09:41, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote:
Voting is open for public transport proposal:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport
This may be a silly question, but...
From a mkgmap perspective, I can search for public_transport=platform
and treat it as
On 01/04/2011 13:42, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2011/4/1 Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com:
Excellent example of wiki fiddling ...
at least this was discussed and voted about:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/generator_rationalisation
But not greatly used:
neighbourhood sounds pretty similar to locality - a couple of
examples on the place=locality page could count (e.g. Seacroft in Leeds,
if it's considered too small to be a suburb).
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Locality
Whoever wrote does not have any population at the top of that page
I'm not sure that I understand your problem. Currently when people see
something they decide what to tag it, based on what other people have
used in the past and/or what's documented on the wiki - some people are
seeing things for which they think foo=bar is appropriate. Often the
choice of
On 06/05/2011 12:04, David Murn wrote:
Taginfo suggests 100 uses combined between amenity=music_venue
and leusire=music_venue.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Music_venue
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/search?q=music#values
Thanks - either of those sounds like a good
On 11/05/2011 12:19, Ilya Zverev wrote:
I've reverted his edits of the proposal page, but is he right? Is any
proposal with incorrect subject line in tagging@ post (let along those
which weren't mentioned here) automatically invalid?
If so most of map features would be invalid because many
On 14/06/2011 11:19, Flaimo wrote:
the wiki page doesn't say that the restriction need to be of a legal
kind.
The wiki page makes it abundantly clear that this is what access is
for. It uses words such as /legally-enshrined right of access and
//dedicated to a specific mode of travel by
On 29/06/2011 02:24, Josh Doe wrote:
I noticed user seav changed all tags to drive_through, at least in my
area, apparently based on wiki discussions:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/seav/edits
Taginfo shows 1553 uses of drive_through, and 275 of drive-through. It
sounds fine to me, so we
On 29/06/2011 13:22, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
I don't run any bots. I used JXAPI and JOSM.
That's irrelevant; you're still changing data across the planet.
Data consumers still need to know if the data is changing beneath their
feet, though.
Your last post on the tagging list:
On 01/07/2011 16:49, fly wrote:
A check on data how often these values are already used would be
helpful, maybe we can accept some without voting.
You mean like:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/barrier#values
?
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On 06/07/2011 21:43, Pieren wrote:
The Passage de la Boule Blanche is closed by a door. Or would you
qualify this a gate ?
Speaking entirely for myself, I'd call that a gate.
Cheers,
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On 11/07/2011 16:47, fly wrote:
There was a discussion on talk-de@ about it:
http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-de@openstreetmap.org/msg85941.html
Thanks - I was wondering what visor=hedge meant!
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On 15/07/2011 22:52, Zsolt Bertalan wrote:
I couldn't find anything better than tourism movement. I realise that
although in english it is frequently used, it has a more general
meaning, like propagation of countryside tourism, hiking, etc.
I'm English and don't have a clue what tourism
On 15/07/2011 23:17, Zsolt Bertalan wrote:
Just read my message further.
I did. You said Any organisation or association can start a tourism
movement (TM).. That's why I asked for an example, to enable a bit of
googling. Are you talking about something like the VVV in Holland, or
the
Michael Krämer wrote:
Permissive means that you have permission by default. Is 'permit'
better-known by non-English speakers than 'permission'?
To me this would be something different: I would assume that a permit
is some document expressing permission. For something tagged with
access=permit I
Volker Schmidt wrote:
How do I tag a Site of Community Importance (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_of_Community_Importance)?
A few people have gone for:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/designation=site_of_special_scientific_interest
for SSSIs
Ronnie Soak wrote:
So maybe it's ok if you can get the information from elsewhere (like
for historic features no longer visible or abstract concepts like
administrative borders),
Personally I'd add a source tag anywhere that there might be some doubt
as to what something might be called, so
Nathan Edgars II wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservices says that it
(usually) has fuel and food, but it links to Wikipedia:rest area.
Should the Wikipedia link be removed (and added to
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Drest_area)? Should
the word
Steve Bennett wrote:
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Russ Nelsonnel...@crynwr.com wrote:
So? The wiki is the place for documenting how YOU map, not how other
people SHOULD map. The only thing you SHOULDN'T do in the wiki is
change the description of how other people map.
+1 (in the sense of
Phil! Gold wrote:
As I understand it, NE2 was looking for a tagging scheme that would
allow for searches to find trails on a railway grade.
That might not have the desired effect in all cases:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.068937lon=-4.077433zoom=18layers=C
:-)
Cheers,
Andy
Steve Bennett wrote:
Consolidate, yes (drinking_water, drinkable = drinking_water).
Migrate, no (drinking_water, drinkable = potable)
Are there any examples of successful migrations in the recent past?
highway=gate to barrier=gate is one, I think. Done initially without
bots, just by
Petr Morávek [Xificurk] wrote:
On the other side of
the spectrum is Potlach, which makes anything involving relations overly
complicated. I've fixed my share of relation bugs, that I dare to say
came from these poor editing capabilities.
I've resurrected about half a dozen relations since
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
*ahem* It's Llundain in one of Britain's two official languages.
Two? You could make a case for both Irish and Ulster-Scots as well,
based on the Anglo-Irish Agreement:
http://www.nio.gov.uk/agreement.pdf
:)
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Serge Wroclawski wrote:
How do you propose I tag it?
Like this one?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/31374891
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Philip Barnes wrote:
Have just spotted this changeset whilst looking through changes near me?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12837424
Why has Ford been depreciated? It is the correct definition, and the
word used on road signs.
I can see the point of changing highway=ford on
Pieren wrote:
If you specify the access for customers, then you have to do it for
employees or visitors as well. Think about parkings or entrances
in theatres, hotels, airports, supermarkets, malls, factories,
hospitals, etc...
Why? If I'm mapping a pub car park I want some way to say
Martin Vonwald wrote:
How would you tag an open stable? landuse=open_stable?
And how the feeding stations within the open stable? amenity=feeding_station?
You might want to link to a picture of an example - as an English
speaker I'm not sure exactly what an open_stable would be.
Cheers,
Alberto wrote:
This isn't true: in Italy there are animal shelters that take lost
animals but they have also some boxes to take pets from people who go
on holiday.
As in many other cases (e.g. pubs that are also restaurants and/or also
hotels) as a mapper you have to pick the most
Janko Mihelić wrote:
Services are tagged like service:bicycle:repair=yes for shops that
will repair your bike.
Saying that implies that people actually use tags such as these. Taginfo
suggests otherwise:
shop=bicycle: 13,425
service:bicycle:repair: 758
I'm guessing that it's a fair bet that
To echo Sir Humphrey*, my first reaction was beautifully typed. My
second reaction was as follows:
What attempt has been made to get editor support for this proposal?
Without it no-one, apart from the dwindling proportion voting on the
wiki, will ever even have heard of it.
Without editor
Lars Ahlzen wrote:
Rendering these would be nice indeed, ...
On the rendering front, doesn't Lonvia's hiking map render
information=guidepost as part of a route?
http://hiking.lonvia.de/en/?zoom=9lat=42.45312lon=-72.28842route=1
http://hiking.lonvia.de/en/help/rendering
Cheers,
Andy
Philip Barnes wrote:
Maize is a rarely used word in British English these days, you see
corn on the cob sold in supermarkets, not maize.
If I'm walking through a field of the stuff, in between the profanities,
I'd definitely call it maize!
Cheers,
Andy
(resending as it got rejected the first time)
A.Pirard.Papou wrote:
I will certainly not manually enter 1000 entries in OpenStreetBugs
just in hope.
You could use their API:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetBugs/API_0.1
(read down to addPOIexec)
But someone may know how to use
Philip Barnes wrote:
What OS are you running? A fellow UK mapper was recently unable to
revert using windows, however the reversion worked for me running on
fedora linux.
For completeness the error that I (the other UK mapper) was getting on
that occasion was
A.Pirard.Papou wrote:
I have successfully written programs processing our tags, but 'm stuck
on this problem.
Given a node number or a way number, typically a street, what are the
HTTP queries to send, and what is the algorithm to process the
replies, to determine the relation number of which
If I remember correctly, the idea of using source:maxspeed for urban
limits came from somewhere on continental Europe where there's a rule
that if you're within the boundary of an urban place, the speed limit is
automatically the urban limit rather than the national one, making it
quite
Richard Mann wrote:
My impression is that a lot of the source:maxspeed were added by a
single user in an armchair edit. So its prevalence is not really an
indicator of anything.
You might be referring to the FIXME:nsl = inferred single-carriageway
NSL - remove this tag once verified
fly wrote:
There was a ticket [1] filled on josm trac about milestones.
Now I am a bit puzzled as the tag pk= seems to be Frensh and should be
kp=* in English. This is even written in the wiki. Though the usage is
100:1 towards pk=*.
Where (outside of OSM) is kp= used on a road distance
Masi Master wrote:
Hi,
some mappers think, they have to set these access tags. Potlatch and
iD have a select menue, which shout hey, please select foot bicycle
are allowed. But I think this is not good! It is better to tag signs:
bicycle=yes only if there is a bicycle free sign. Same with
Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
After reading
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dswimming_pool I can't
figure out.
Is this tag for the actual wet area of a pool, or the fenced area of a
pool facility? The page spends
a lot of words about past controversy, but seems silent on this topic.
Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
Something could be both inquiry and customer. Is there a better way?
FWIW, it'd be enquiry not inquiry in English (rather than in American).
Cheers,
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Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
Open for voting is
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:amenity%3Dtoilets
Which includes toilets:position and toilets:disposal, to allow tagging
of squat facilities
and pitlatrines.
Are you voting by amending people's tagging without survey?
I'm
André Pirard wrote:
The only thing I could find is indeed a guidepost like this experiment
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.53271mlon=5.63878#map=18/50.53271/5.63878layers=N,
but often the guidepost is virtual.
* information
Tod Fitch wrote:
Except that I think in the UK they might call it the verge so we might have a
dialect issue.
In the UK verge normally means a patch of grass at the side of a road,
but if it's a paved area at the side of the motorway that's usually
called the hard shoulder.
Cheers,
Andy
Lukas Hornby wrote:
In particular defnition seems to be key and I can confirm my
definition is from a British perspective.
Which is fine, because OSM uses British English names for things except
in rare cases.
Community garden is different in definition, both here and in the US
(and
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
taking into account that this is about a subdivison of
landuse=allotments and not applotments it sounds reasonable to use
lot ;-)
I note the smiley, but FWIW they're a different root, apparently:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allot
fly wrote:
Can one of you suggest a site where I can see details like those you
mention?
As this list is about tagging you might want to ask your question also
at talk@osm and/or local mailing lists for the areas.
Sorry, I do not know one but maybe someone else.
It might be worth asking on
bredy wrote:
None have other suggestion? And about the use of abandoned?
Personally, if it doesn't exist any more (i.e. isn't signposted on the
ground) I'd delete it.
If something does exist, you might want to draw other mappers to its
abandoned status somehow. Here's a route near me
Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
The problem with disused: is the object disappears from the map.
Leaving aside the which map? question, lots of things don't get
rendered; it makes sense for a disused restaurant to NOT be rendered as
a restaurant, since whatever it is, it's not currently somewhere where
Fernando Trebien wrote:
Wouldn't the more generic disused=yes apply to this case? Rendering
apps should support lifecycle tags and render them accordingly (though
often then don't ...
I think that you've answered your own question already :)
... and none would support this anyway).
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
you should not use amenity and building on the same object
Er, what?
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element
Cheers,
Andy
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Jonathan wrote:
I don't see any point in the bicycle=dismount tag, when there is a
change in speed limit we don't tag car=slowdown! The only way to tag
the effect that the sign has is to change the access tag to exclude
bicycles. As I see it it's that simple.
Here's an example:
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I have no doubt that these situations occur, I was only pointing out
that bicycle is not the right key to state anything about pushing a
bike as this has nothing to do with cycling.
What about the equivalent situation for horses?
François Lacombe wrote:
2013/11/21 Malcolm Herring malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com
mailto:malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com
No. Central Office (North American term) or [telephone]exchange
(UK/Ireland term) usually implies the location of a switch as well
as the MDF and line
Janko Mihelić wrote:
http://coinmap.org/
The video on there didn't mention adding a main tag at all when I
watched it.
the problem is that lots of online businesses want to get on the map,
and I don't know what tags to suggest.
Ignoring the online businesses, there are plenty of
Axelos wrote:
I proposed the tag shop=military_surplus for the shops selling used
military equipment.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Military_surplus
If you think that it makes sense to tag a particular shop that way just
go ahead and use it. You can use any tags you like. Taginfo
Axelos wrote:
The wiki is not intended to suggest tags to make homogeneous the
database ?
The wiki's an excellent place for documenting tag usage, but one of the
things hugely in OSM's favour is that there's no enforced list of legal
tags - if something has never been tagged before, or not
Christoph Hormann wrote:
And you forget 4.5 million natural=water without any water=* of which
quite a lot could be riverbanks.
Most of those will just be random imports though, won't they? Until
someone even has a look at an aerial, it's difficult to say much about them.
Cheers,
Andy
John Packer wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/All_you_can_eat
What does taginfo suggest people are currently tagging places with an
all you can eat option as?
I'm not convinced that this necessarily needs a proposal...
Cheers,
Andy
Robin `ypid` Schneider wrote:
So I created a short proposal:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/opening_hours_open_until
In a related point, we need to be careful that when trying to translate
all of the data in opening_hours into something that a computer can
understand
nounours77 wrote:
Dear all,
Just to remind you that the proposal
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/boat_sharing
is still open for comments.
If you think that it's an important thing to map, and it fulfills the
usual criteria (e.g. verifiability), I'd just go and map it
(and in case anyone's not aware) sulfur would be sulphur in British
English.
Cheers,
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Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
IMHO summer_holiday would be preferable because we should avoid
abbreviations
... and people have already used the abbreviation SH for School
Holidays (which I'd argue also ought not to be abbreviated for the same
reason).
Cheers,
Andy
On 29/03/2014 12:41, nounours77 wrote:
As discussed in my earlier post, I think voting is important even for specific
service tags to make them offical.
Not really - OSM doesn't have official tags. It has commonly used
ones, and people agree not to use the same tag to mean different things,
fly wrote:
Is noexit=yes useful on ways ?
Asking a slightly broader question, in what situations is noexit=yes
useful at all, except as a cue to subsequent mappers in the very rare
situation that one way ends very close to another one and there's
absolutely nothing (not a wall, footpath,
On 03/04/14 23:27, Richard Welty wrote:
On 4/3/14 6:06 PM, Richard Z. wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Advanced_relationships
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:layer
umm, the term only seems to appear here. google does not
find any references to it. from this i have to assume
André Riedel wrote:
At the moment stroller is used for ramps or ways as access condition.
But it's ambiguous, even in American. It's a noun meaning pushchair
only in American; in both English AND American it means a person going
for a walk. I can't comment on other English variants (AU,
Richard Welty wrote:
and if you are not sure about the extent of the structure or its nature
there's no harm in nipping out a short section, setting layer=1 and
skipping the other tagging (bridge=yes or whatever.) you have
accurately represented what you know and maintained correct
topology.
Currently, there are 41,000 things tagged access=designated (1). I can
understand what =designated means for a specifc transport type (foot,
bicycle, etc.) but not access. The wiki (2) also doesn't know.
What do we think that someone means when they tag something as
access=designated?
André Pirard wrote:
Hi,
This is about OSM ticket https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/5163:
The rendering of highway=path and highway=track is barely
distinguishable.
Just my 2p, but personally I don't think that the rendering of
highway=track and highway=path on the standard map are
André Pirard wrote:
On 2014-05-19 18:35, SomeoneElse wrote :
If you feel strongly about it why not knock up a rendering with more
differentiation between track and path and invite people to compare
with the current standard map?
¿¿¿ ¡¡¡ That is exactly what I did with showing OSM and IGN
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Hi all,
There are almost 8m highway=track objects in the database (thanks
taginfo!), third only to =residential and =service (thanks TIGER!).
I'm interested to know what level of access people believe this
implies in their home countries.
Here in the UK, for
Dave F. wrote:
Going slightly off topic, I notice the UK listing is missing byway, a
recognised highway classification.
Dave F.
Is there a notable physical difference between a byway in England and
Wales and a track? Byway Open to All Traffic and Restricted Byway
are both legal
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
(Please, don't make a voodoo doll of me because I am bringing this
discussion back.)
Too late! :)
We had a long discussion in
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-April/017247.html
and now I saw in the English wiki
Dave F. wrote:
I believe byway shouldn't be deprecated. In my area most of them are
signed as just 'byway' on the ground.
I think that it varies greatly by area. Some highway authorities use
just Byway; some have more explicit signage; some in some cases none
at all.
I think many that
Janko Mihelic' wrote:
2014-06-03 8:55 GMT+02:00 John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com
mailto:jcg.stu...@gmail.com:
They're not necessarily service roads --- they don't have to lead to
any premises at all; they're simply minor roads, usually unsealed.
Then maybe:
highway=unclassified +
Greg Troxel wrote:
I may be alone in thinking this, but I find the legal Right of Way
notion to be critical, and an important distinction between
highway=unclassified and highway=track or highway=service.
Well, ish - but what's important is that all aspects that can be mapped
(legal,
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