Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness, value:Good - summary

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Mauer
Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi all,1st off I got the page set up better now :) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:smoothness%3Dgood BTW The page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness and the page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approved_features/Smoothness should actually be

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-03 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:07:37AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote: It's a *lot* easier to navigate through 20 or more subpages than to read/search in exactly one page?!? When it takes about a minute for the page to load, yes, I may as well just do a search on the wiki since I’d get a response in a

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness, value:Good - summary

2009-02-03 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all,1st off I got the page set up better now :) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:smoothness%3Dgood BTW The page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness and the page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approved_features/Smoothness should actually be merged, as the page ALSO lists

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness, value:Good - summary

2009-02-03 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all,1st off I got the page set up better now :) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:smoothness%3Dgood BTW The page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness and the page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approved_features/Smoothness should actually be merged, as the page ALSO lists

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Ed Loach
Should we have a page detailed mapping of roads or something similar? Could be useful, imho, for traffic_calming, service, tracktype and some less used tags like bus_guideway. This point was distracted into a do/don't split map features. In my opinion it would be handy to have such a page

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote: I guess you want to missunderstand this tag. The tag name should be descriptive. If there's widespread misunderstanding, then the tag was misnamed. (And besides, the wheeled point still doesn't address that what's good for an MTB is bad for a tourer.) Do you know a *walker*

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Harris
] Sent: 02 February 2009 03:24 To: Mike Harris Cc: 'Sam Vekemans'; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness Mike Harris schrieb: ... And by the way ... Does 'good' mean: I guess you want to missunderstand this tag. Good for a motorcar? (I know of local unclassified (OS yellow

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Harris
address!) Mike Harris -Original Message- From: Sam Vekemans [mailto:acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 February 2009 06:12 To: Ulf Lamping Cc: Mike Harris; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness Ya, im working on the wiki smoothness=good Mike was just just giving

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Matthias Julius
Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk writes: 2009/2/2 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Ulf Lamping wrote: Yes, if it would use descriptive terms it might solve some problems. But if you think of a better solution it gets really difficult to find better terms thats aimed towards

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
Matthias Julius wrote: Suitability sounds a bit more fitting than smoothness. And one could put the type of vehicle into the value like 'suitability=horse:good;mountainbike:bad;racebike:impossible' or something like that. That déjà vu feeling all over again. Quite like the idea of

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Ulf Lamping
Richard Fairhurst schrieb: Ulf Lamping wrote: I guess you want to missunderstand this tag. The tag name should be descriptive. If there's widespread misunderstanding, then the tag was misnamed. (And besides, the wheeled point still doesn't address that what's good for an MTB is bad for a

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote: Yes, if it would use descriptive terms it might solve some problems. But if you think of a better solution it gets really difficult to find better terms thats aimed towards something. smoothness:vehicle would make sense to me. But, you know, water under the bridge and

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Harris
: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness Mike Harris schrieb: Sam Thanks - I don't feel quite so bad now after reading your response ... Ulf I think Sam makes much the point that I failed to explain properly. Forlåt että jag förstår inte .. (or should that be Entschuldingungen daß ich nicht richtig

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/2/2 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Ulf Lamping wrote: Yes, if it would use descriptive terms it might solve some problems. But if you think of a better solution it gets really difficult to find better terms thats aimed towards something. smoothness:vehicle would make sense to

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Harris
than a description per se of the surface. Mike Harris -Original Message- From: Matthias Julius [mailto:li...@julius-net.net] Sent: 02 February 2009 16:23 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk writes: 2009/2/2 Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread Mike Harris
- From: Shaun McDonald [mailto:sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk] Sent: 01 February 2009 00:40 To: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness Good means different things to different users. A racing cyclist, touring cyclist, and trail/mtb cyclist will all have difference views

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread Matt White
Shaun McDonald wrote: Good means different things to different users. A racing cyclist, touring cyclist, and trail/mtb cyclist will all have difference views. These will be even more different to a wheelchair user, hiker, 4x4 vehicle driver, smart car driver, and a tractor driver. More

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote: I think the page needs to be put back to the regular map features standard. I disagree. There are a number of features listed as approved without being on map features. This should alse be tha case for

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread Michael Thompson
2009/2/1 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk Good means different things to different users. A racing cyclist, touring cyclist, and trail/mtb cyclist will all have difference views. Could the tag smoothness be replaced by an attribute on cycle routes indicating what bikes the route is

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread sylvain letuffe
Hi, There are a number of features listed as approved without being on map features. This should alse be tha case for smoothness, as long as: I disagree. A tag should be IMHO on the feature page as long as it's potential use covers a lot of object in the database where a lot of mapper might

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 1 Feb 2009, at 14:43, sylvain letuffe wrote: That tag is now used 5 times in europe, for the simple reason that it was found usefull by people. Smoothness is used 2356 times according to tagwatch at: http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Europe/En/tags.html It is crazy to base a tag's

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread sylvain letuffe
Smoothness is used 2356 times according to tagwatch at: http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Europe/En/tags.html Now it's : gis=# select count(*) from planet_osm_line where smoothness!=''; count --- 2693 I have entered more than 10 benches! According to tagwatch there are 8433 benches in

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:43 PM, sylvain letuffe li...@letuffe.org wrote: A tag should be IMHO on the feature page as long as it's potential use covers a lot of object in the database where a lot of mapper might be in touch with. Should we have a page detailed mapping of roads or something

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread sylvain letuffe
Should we have a page detailed mapping of roads or something similar? Could be useful, imho, for traffic_calming, service, tracktype and some less used tags like bus_guideway. This idea looks like the idea of splitting the map feature page into thematic categories. Something I totally agree

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread Ulf Lamping
sylvain letuffe schrieb: Should we have a page detailed mapping of roads or something similar? Could be useful, imho, for traffic_calming, service, tracktype and some less used tags like bus_guideway. This idea looks like the idea of splitting the map feature page into thematic categories.

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread Ulf Lamping
Mike Harris schrieb: ... And by the way ... Does 'good' mean: I guess you want to missunderstand this tag. Good for a motorcar? (I know of local unclassified (OS yellow roads) that cannot be driven except in a 4WD (some appear on my TomTom even). Good for a horse and cart? (All Restricted

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
Ya, im working on the wiki smoothness=good Mike was just just giving examples. :-) it should be ready for the peanut gallary in the next few days. Btw: A horse buggie has wheels. Kids shoes can contain 'healies' (wheels in heal of shoe) ;-) im using the explaination that; good is a subjective

[OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-01-31 Thread Sam Vekemans
I think the page needs to be put back to the regular map features standard. English is an odd language. There are many acceptions to the rule. This is one of them. Technically, this tag follows the rule of {{tag|key|value}} where 'excellant', 'good', 'bad', 'horrible'. Are all descriptives of

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-01-31 Thread Shaun McDonald
Good means different things to different users. A racing cyclist, touring cyclist, and trail/mtb cyclist will all have difference views. These will be even more different to a wheelchair user, hiker, 4x4 vehicle driver, smart car driver, and a tractor driver. More importantly take any one