Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery

2009-06-02 Thread Claudius
Am 02.06.2009 07:37, Ed Loach: FWIW I personally think highway=road is not generally of much use in 90% of cases. Whether you're tracing from Yahoo or NPE or whatever, you can very often work out what highway value the road should have. Yes, but if highway=road were in the list, people

[OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery

2009-06-01 Thread Joe Richards
I've been enjoying sketching/tracing from Yahoo aerial imagery in Potlatch (hey some people knit or do crosswords, I find _this_ relaxing!). I recently discovered that the default 'highway' tag for roads taken from imagery is highway=road (_not_ highway=unclassified as would seem logical!)

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery

2009-06-01 Thread Maarten Deen
Joe Richards wrote: I've been enjoying sketching/tracing from Yahoo aerial imagery in Potlatch (hey some people knit or do crosswords, I find _this_ relaxing!). I recently discovered that the default 'highway' tag for roads taken from imagery is highway=road (_not_ highway=unclassified as

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery

2009-06-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Maarten Deen wrote: You're thinking of the wrong unclassified. Unclassified here does not mean the road in OSM is not classified, or does not have a better designation, it means that it is designated as unclassified I wonder what would happen if there was a military road the

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery

2009-06-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joe Richards wrote: If that is the case, why does Potlatch not offer highway=road as one of its presents, under the little car icon? Because I don't really keep up with the ever-changing tagging discussions - life's too short. Anyone with svn access can augment the Potlatch

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery

2009-06-01 Thread Ed Loach
FWIW I personally think highway=road is not generally of much use in 90% of cases. Whether you're tracing from Yahoo or NPE or whatever, you can very often work out what highway value the road should have. Yes, but if highway=road were in the list, people might read up on what it meant so