Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-30 Thread marcus.wolschon
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:07:08 +0200, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: 2. It says that the main use is for city_limit. Again, why not. But the other examples are very questionable : traffic_sign=maxspeed:30 or traffic_sign=DE:239 break some practices we had until now like key=value and not

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-30 Thread marcus.wolschon
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:08:28 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I know about others: maxspeedtype=ITA:city for example, or maxspeed=DE:walk I don't understand why key:country=value is different to key=country:value but I would like to learn about it. In that one

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-30 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:36:10AM +0200, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:07:08 +0200, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: 2. It says that the main use is for city_limit. Again, why not. But the other examples are very questionable : traffic_sign=maxspeed:30 or

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-30 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:36 AM, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: It has been discussed at length before. Please consult the archive first. Did you check yourself the archive before submitting this comment ? I did and the only mention I found (searching traffic_sign) was inside another

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-30 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Florian Lohofff...@rfc822.org wrote: I started tagging the sign when i started with maxspeed as it sometimes help the orientation in the data when adding maxspeed. Could you explain what you mean by help the orientation in the data ? Do you mean that maxspeed

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-30 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:01:09AM +0200, Pieren wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Florian Lohofff...@rfc822.org wrote: I started tagging the sign when i started with maxspeed as it sometimes help the orientation in the data when adding maxspeed. Could you explain what you mean by

[OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-29 Thread Pieren
Hi all, Today I saw for the first time on the area I'm contributing a tag called traffic_sign=city_limit. Then I went on the map features and discovered it. Huh, why not... I'm not watching the map features changes since the page length is exceeding 100 meters ... But I'm reading this list and

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Pieren wrote: Today I saw for the first time on the area I'm contributing a tag called traffic_sign=city_limit. Then I went on the map features and discovered it. Huh, why not... Exactly. I haven't been involved in the discussion, I don't use it myself, and I find it strange to talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/7/30 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: true it's going faster. Or I missed the announcement somewhere on a mailing-list... maybe it was just announced on the German ML, but I remember about it 2. It says that the main use is for city_limit. Again, why not. But the other examples are very

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: the other examples are very questionable : traffic_sign=maxspeed:30 That does look questionable if for no other reason that maxspeed should be used consistently so routing doesn't have to look for 50 different tags or parse all tags

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: To me, that looks like somebody is marking *the sign*, as opposed to marking *the maxspeed restriction*. Seems fine to me - because the sign does physically exist on the ground - but the restriction should also be mapped, using

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-29 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:46 AM, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 29/7/09, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: the other examples are very questionable : traffic_sign=maxspeed:30 That does look questionable if for no other reason that maxspeed should be used

Re: [OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-29 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: Have things reached the level that people have nothing but street signs to map as POIs? Hehe. I don't see why we should discourage a high level of detail. Users can decide for themselves what they want to contribute, as