Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-20 Thread Richard Mann
The wiki is also not the only truth. Peter - you get all sorts of rendering issues when you attach layer tags to objects that are typically drawn over-size (eg roads). So if someone has gone to the trouble of putting something that is typically below street level (eg a stream) to a consistent

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-20 Thread Ed Avis
Peter Miller peter.miller@... writes: It it is in a cutting the the 'cutting' tag would be appropriate. because the layer tag saying nothing about relative height to a parallel way, only about the z ordering at crossing points. This is the problem - there are two different conventions for the

[Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Miller
Andy Allan just asked me a question privately about changes I have made to layers in Wandsworth which has prompted me to do a post here saying what I have been up in order to rationalise use of the layers in East Anglia, London and now Kent. The ITO Map 'Layers' view highlighted a huge amount of

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread SomeoneElse
On 19/04/2011 14:31, Peter Miller wrote: ... railways at layer=1 or -1 Well, that might be correct if they're at layer -1 or +1 relative to a feature that hasn't been mapped yet. A conversation with the original mappers (or a visit) should be able to resolve that easily. In the process

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Andy Allan just asked me a question privately about changes I have made to layers in Wandsworth which has prompted me to do a post here saying what I have been up in order to rationalise use of the layers in East

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Tom Hughes
On 19/04/11 14:50, Andy Allan wrote: He's also removed the layer tags from stretches of the railway, for example at http://osm.org/go/euunor2Ku-- which again, those of us who know that area know the railway is on a

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Matt Williams
On 19 April 2011 15:50, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: I'm assuming his map layers view has some logic that layers tags only apply to ways that cross but I don't believe that to be true. Actually, that's exactly how I understood the layer tag to be used. It is simply there to

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 19 April 2011 14:49, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: On 19/04/2011 14:31, Peter Miller wrote: ... railways at layer=1 or -1 Well, that might be correct if they're at layer -1 or +1 relative to a feature that hasn't been mapped yet. A conversation with the original

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: On 19 April 2011 15:50, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: I'm assuming his map layers view has some logic that layers tags only apply to ways that cross but I don't believe that to be true. Actually, that's

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 19 April 2011 14:50, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Andy Allan just asked me a question privately about changes I have made to layers in Wandsworth which has prompted me to do a post here saying

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 19 April 2011 15:20, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: On 19 April 2011 15:50, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: I'm assuming his map layers view has some logic that layers tags only apply to ways

Re: [Talk-GB] Sorting out layering in East Anglia, Essex, London and Kent

2011-04-19 Thread SomeoneElse
On 19/04/2011 15:26, Peter Miller wrote: That is not what the wiki says (and said before my edits). Before my edits it said: ... It really doesn't matter what the wiki says. What matters is that someone's mapped something and recorded some information and you're removing that