Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-28 Thread Vladimir Vyskocil
I think it's time to switch to the tagging list ! The tagging scheme that seems preferred in this discussion is the following : - simple named junctions : use junction=yes and name=* - complex named junctions with several lanes crossing a different points : two propositions :

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
Vladimir Vyskocil vladimir.vysko...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's time to switch to the tagging list ! The tagging scheme that seems preferred in this discussion is the following : - simple named junctions : use junction=yes and name=* - complex named junctions with several lanes

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Henry Loenwind
On 25.03.2013 22:24, Vladimir Vyskocil wrote: And there are more than 7000 nodes with highway=traffic_signals and name=* in Tokyo and its suburbs ! Another country, another solution for the same tagging problem. And how is this unexpected? Without renderer support every community will

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:11:28 Hans Schmidt wrote: Am 25.03.2013 17:48, schrieb Christian Quest: Here is a quick and dirty rendering on the junction=yes + name=* tags that will make visible the 1800+ nodes overpass found mostly in Korea:

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:48:31 Christian Quest wrote: I wanted to try rendering those crossroad names so I've had a quick look in Korea, near Seoul and found many nodes with names around intersecting highways. Example: http://osm.org/browse/node/414684650 What is the current tagging scheme

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Janko Mihelić
2013/3/26 Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.com Yup, it looks fine. With or without a rectangle is ok. What about traffic lights? Is it necessary to see them behind the label? Here you can see Google doesn't hide traffic lights: http://goo.gl/maps/BgxjN And the rectangle makes the

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Vladimir Vyskocil
That's how it is I'm afraid, and that is a good example. I'd suggest that node needs an additional tag - junction=yes - as described in the wiki to make it very clear. It should also be merged with the node at the intersection of the two ways that actually form the crossroads. But how

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Hans Schmidt
Am 26.03.2013 11:30, schrieb Vladimir Vyskocil: But how to deal with complex crossroads where there's not a single point of junction, but many (oneway or not) lanes crossing at different points ? A relation with type=junction referencing all the crossing points and carrying the name of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:30:58 Vladimir Vyskocil wrote: That's how it is I'm afraid, and that is a good example. I'd suggest that node needs an additional tag - junction=yes - as described in the wiki to make it very clear. It should also be merged with the node at the intersection of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Satoshi IIDA
http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=17lat=37.40505lon=127.12573 +1 from Japan, too. Here are some other samples. (not OSM) http://yahoo.jp/Srff4c http://www.mapion.co.jp/m/35.4624614580357_139.61675208953122_10/ just placed in the middle Yes, there are such a case. (traffic signals with name,

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:23:40 Janko Mihelić wrote: 2013/3/26 Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.com Yup, it looks fine. With or without a rectangle is ok. What about traffic lights? Is it necessary to see them behind the label? Here you can see Google doesn't hide traffic lights:

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Peter Wendorff
I would propose to draw the intersection as an area in these cases, as the whole area, and not only the nodes of intersecting streets is named, I guess. regards Peter Am 26.03.2013 11:30, schrieb Vladimir Vyskocil: That's how it is I'm afraid, and that is a good example. I'd suggest that

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/3/26 Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de: Am 26.03.2013 11:30, schrieb Vladimir Vyskocil: But how to deal with complex crossroads where there's not a single point of junction, but many (oneway or not) lanes crossing at different points ? A relation with type=junction referencing all the

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Christian Quest
highway=traffic_signals + name=* are now also visible: http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?lon=139.71686lat=35.61534zoom=18 You'll see that adding names to traffic_lights on complex crossroads causes the same name to be rendered multiple times in some places:

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Satoshi IIDA
highway=traffic_signals + name=* are now also visible: Great! traffic_lights on complex crossroads Area or Relation I prefer to use relation. I'm afraid of effects to routing topology when signals or roundabouts are written as an area. As theory, the names of Japanese traffic signals are

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Vladimir Vyskocil
About crossroad names in Japan, I contributed quite a lot in Tokyo for remapping after odbl clean up and recently. I'm french and I'm doing armchair mapping but I'll visit Tokyo in june and this is my motivation to fix and upgrade what I can do from here. I've also made a iOS application using

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:45:28 Frederik Ramm wrote: Are you in touch with mappers in Japan or Korea, and if so, what is their opinion regarding intersection names? Are they waiting for someone to tell them what to do, or have they invented some kind of hack to add this (according to you) very

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:28:04 malenki wrote: Am Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:15:19 +0100 schrieb Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de: Am 24.03.2013 16:15, schrieb malenki: Since you didn't go into details in you OP, where from should I know this? Well, I mentioned it some weeks before. I didn’t want

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Errington wrote: That's exactly what he did. So what else is he supposed to do? Perhaps the wiki should be edited to state don't bother making graphical suggestions because the system is too unwieldy now and we dare not change it. No-one has said that. There is an active effort to

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:29:47 Richard Fairhurst wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: That's exactly what he did. So what else is he supposed to do? Perhaps the wiki should be edited to state don't bother making graphical suggestions because the system is too unwieldy now and we dare not change

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 24.03.2013 18:38, schrieb Hans Schmidt: Am 24.03.2013 17:59, schrieb Kevin Peat: On 24 March 2013 16:38, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: What makes you think money is the problem? Money could help to speed up the process by buying time which people may not be able to give as a

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Christian Quest
I wanted to try rendering those crossroad names so I've had a quick look in Korea, near Seoul and found many nodes with names around intersecting highways. Example: http://osm.org/browse/node/414684650 What is the current tagging scheme for crossroad names ? junction=yes ? Is it used in

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Hans Schmidt
Am 25.03.2013 16:45, schrieb Peter Wendorff: If you want to have feature X done and you're not able to do it yourself, but you want to pay for it, go for it: find a coder, pay him and provide patches that are easy to maintain or where the current maintainers believe you or your coder maintain

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Hans Schmidt
Am 25.03.2013 17:48, schrieb Christian Quest: Here is a quick and dirty rendering on the junction=yes + name=* tags that will make visible the 1800+ nodes overpass found mostly in Korea: http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=17lat=37.40505lon=127.12573 This is exactly what I was asking for.

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Vladimir Vyskocil
On 25 mars 2013, at 17:48, Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr wrote: Here is a quick and dirty rendering on the junction=yes + name=* tags that will make visible the 1800+ nodes overpass found mostly in Korea: http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=17lat=37.40505lon=127.12573 And there

[OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Hans Schmidt
Hello, some weeks/months ago I started a discussion here that OSM needs to show crossroad names. I then opened a bug report on the bug tracker, but there was absolutely no reaction there – not even a comment that it is not needed (as it is at least usually done on OSS projects). As I announced,

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread malenki
Am Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:48:21 +0100 schrieb Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de: some weeks/months ago I started a discussion here that OSM needs to show crossroad names. I then opened a bug report on the bug tracker, but there was absolutely no reaction there – not even a comment that it is not

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Tom Hughes
On 24/03/13 11:48, Hans Schmidt wrote: some weeks/months ago I started a discussion here that OSM needs to show crossroad names. I then opened a bug report on the bug tracker, but there was absolutely no reaction there – not even a comment that it is not needed (as it is at least usually done

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Hans Schmidt
Am 24.03.2013 13:07, schrieb malenki: It seems there are not a lot of people in need of this feature. About 160 mio people is not a lot of people? Render a map supporting name= on crossroads. Or make an overlay using Overpass API. You miss my point: This is an essential map feature. And why

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hans, OSM is a help yourself project. Street names are important in Europe, that's why Europeans helped themselves by making a database that records, and a map that shows, street names. People in countries where crossroads names are very important are invited to help themselves and

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/3/24 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: OSM is a help yourself project. Street names are important in Europe, that's why Europeans helped themselves by making a database that records, and a map that shows, street names. People in countries where crossroads names are very important are

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Hans Schmidt
Am 24.03.2013 14:45, schrieb Frederik Ramm: The way things like this often happen is that someone invents some kind of hack to achieve what they want - for example, it would be slightly incorrect but possible to place a node at a named intersection and tag it place=locality, name=blah blah.

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/3/24 Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de: And as Martin said: If a project has gained a certain size, it is harder to get suggestions implemented. While I'd agree with this, it is not what I wrote. I said: it seems that mapnik style development has stuck in the recent past (1-2 years), while

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Cartinus
Have you started working on a patch for the stylesheet yet? Until you do please stop spamming. -- --- m.v.g., Cartinus ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Peter Körner
Am 24.03.2013 15:10, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: But there were times when it was easier for the Europeans to help themselves, i.e propose a patch for one of the 2 main open map styles (osmarender and mapnik) and have hope that it would be integrated (actually in Osmarender you could simply

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread malenki
Am Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:12:47 +0100 schrieb Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de: Am 24.03.2013 13:07, schrieb malenki: It seems there are not a lot of people in need of this feature. About 160 mio people is not a lot of people? Since you didn't go into details in you OP, where from should I know

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread malenki
Am Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:35:06 +0100 schrieb Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de: Still, there is one problem though: I rather get the feeling that if this is not supported on the main map, there will be some forks, where the country specific issues are resolved on a separate page. And I think this is

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Kevin Peat
On 24 March 2013 15:00, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: Currently ist's really hard for anyone (not just Europeans) to do any change to the mapnik style due tu its complexity. That's why nobody really works on it; not because they don't care but because its freaking hard to get the

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Tom Hughes
On 24/03/13 16:32, Kevin Peat wrote: On 24 March 2013 15:00, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: Currently ist's really hard for anyone (not just Europeans) to do any change to the mapnik style due tu its complexity. That's why nobody really works on it; not because they don't care but

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Kevin Peat
On 24 March 2013 16:38, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: What makes you think money is the problem? Money could help to speed up the process by buying time which people may not be able to give as a volunteer. Crowd sourcing map data works great because it is fun (for OSMers at least!) but

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Hans Schmidt
Am 24.03.2013 16:15, schrieb malenki: Since you didn't go into details in you OP, where from should I know this? Well, I mentioned it some weeks before. I didn’t want to write anything again, because this should have been just a running-up thread for the bug tracker. Why not? E.g.

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Hans Schmidt
Am 24.03.2013 17:59, schrieb Kevin Peat: On 24 March 2013 16:38, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: What makes you think money is the problem? Money could help to speed up the process by buying time which people may not be able to give as a volunteer. Crowd sourcing map data works great

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/3/24 Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de: About this: Is is not possible to make some styles specific to one region, so that it would not wreak havoc in another? For example, if we have crossroad names only in Japan and Korea, would it not be possible to limit these changes only to these

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread malenki
Am Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:15:19 +0100 schrieb Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de: Am 24.03.2013 16:15, schrieb malenki: Since you didn't go into details in you OP, where from should I know this? Well, I mentioned it some weeks before. I didn’t want to write anything again, because this should

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Hans Schmidt
Am 24.03.2013 19:28, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: this is a case where you would need the feature (e.g. also for custom subway signs, road colors, highway shields etc. by country/city/region/etc.) Actually if I think about it, the feature is rather a must-have in some future version: