[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US Newsletter Jan 2020

2020-01-08 Thread Maggie Cawley
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Re: [Talk-us] Railway improvements; stations vs. halts

2020-01-08 Thread stevea
> Clay Smalley wrote: > Thanks, all. This pretty much confirms what I expected. I'll go ahead and > bring them back to railway=station. Clay, I know it is an extra ask, I request that you document how you're doing this at (minimally):

Re: [Talk-us] Railway improvements; stations vs. halts

2020-01-08 Thread Clay Smalley
Thanks, all. This pretty much confirms what I expected. I'll go ahead and bring them back to railway=station. -Clay On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:34 AM Harald Kliems wrote: > FWIW, the German wiki page for railway=halt has a section that > acknowledges that the German definition and international

Re: [Talk-us] Railway improvements; stations vs. halts

2020-01-08 Thread Harald Kliems
FWIW, the German wiki page for railway=halt has a section that acknowledges that the German definition and international usage differ: "Outside the German-speaking world, railway=halt is defined as an unimportation railway station that only has the most basic equipment and isn't staffed (in

Re: [Talk-us] Railway improvements; stations vs. halts

2020-01-08 Thread stevea
I forgot to mention that I have also directly edited the OpenRailwayMap/Tagging wiki itself by sprinkling several "In North America..." text blurbs. These are nearly always left intact by other wiki reviewers (and that page is very well watched and heavily/strictly "policed" for accuracy).

Re: [Talk-us] Railway improvements; stations vs. halts

2020-01-08 Thread stevea
Good question, Clay. I agree with Joseph's recommendation to revert to railway=station. Germany (likely the densest national rail network in the world, as well as home to OpenRailwayMap.org) has a rather exacting set of definitions for distinct specificity on its rail in OSM, to the point

Re: [Talk-us] User in Florida changing several motorways to trunk

2020-01-08 Thread Mike N
On 1/8/2020 9:20 AM, James Mast wrote: Honest mistakes on his end? Perhaps.� But I'm just seeing way too many downgrades to be conformable with his 'highway type' changes to be honest.� There's probably quite a few roads that he retagged as primary that need to be re-upgraded to trunk and

Re: [Talk-us] Railway improvements; stations vs. halts

2020-01-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Clay Smalley writes: > Over the last few months, I've been doing some systematic improvements to > the passenger railway network across North America. Much of this has been > filling out public_transport=stop_area relations for every railway station, > including stop positions and platforms, as

Re: [Talk-us] USFS trail/road/route numbers

2020-01-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:15 PM Tod Fitch wrote: > In my area there seems to be a mix of how the US Forest Service route > numbers are tagged on roads and trails. The main variations seem to be: > > name=“Forest Route 9N24” > name=“FR 9N24” > alt_name=“Forest Route 9N24” > alt_name=“FR 9N24” >

Re: [Talk-us] User in Florida changing several motorways to trunk

2020-01-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 8:22 AM James Mast wrote: > As for restoring the 'motorway' roads, I've honestly just been manually > fixing them. Sure, takes longer, but allows me to catch the 'Emergency > U-Turn' crossovers that are improperly tagged as a '_link', and fix them at > the same time.

Re: [Talk-us] User in Florida changing several motorways to trunk

2020-01-08 Thread James Mast
Well, I have noticed he has downgrade a ton of roads that were 'trunk' for 6+ years, which leads me to be believe they were tagged correctly if no other local mapper touched them in that time period. There were also a few ways in that changeset you mentioned that he changed to secondary that

Re: [Talk-us] User in Florida changing several motorways to trunk

2020-01-08 Thread Levente Juhász
FYI the user also joined the changeset discussion as of recently. Based on the message and previous changeset comments (e.g. "trunk-primary fixes (that i messed up)" in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/79132672#map=12/28.4681/-81.4027) it seems to be an honest mistake. I can help out with