stead wrote: > Hi, After posting some diary entries and realising i should of posted here I > thought i'd say hi:) > Hi!
> I've edited one of the streets in my area (about the only street may i add!) > > i've got a couple of questions > > 1.Should we save speed limits for roads? Yes: There is a tag maxspeed=nn where nn is speed limit in Km/Hr ie 30mph==48 > 2.House names, this is a big thing for me, I work as a courier and house > names are a nightmare, google maps are wildly inaccurate and I can only > assume someone with a house name on a dart throws it and when it arrive in > the general area google then decides to publish that house name on the web! I > currently have around 185 housenames & hard to find businesses stored as > poi's in my tom tom (a friend of mine has around 150 currently and we are > both adding everyday when we find new houses), is there anyway to convert > them to this? or is there anyway to add house names, i've read its not > possible so far, but i'm hoping there will be an update to this, even if not > everyone uses it, it'll be a major benefit to all those who have to deal with > people naming their houses instead of using numbers! As already said, this can be saved into the db but getting it back out depends on software. It _is_ possible to customize the renderers to display what _you_ want, on a home basis, but getting it to your mobile device may be trickier. You likely want to use OSM maps to get up-to-date maps, and keep POI's to navigate to? > 3.Speed limits, Should i add an extra tag for speed limits on roads? as 1).. > 4.number of lanes, now, i've noticed there doesn't really seem to be many > roads stating the number of lanes, but i'll happily add them in on > motorways/dual carrigeways/urban clearways on roads i know. There is a lane tag. And a width tag. Not universally used, but eminently usable > 5.Postcodes, What about postcodes? from what I can tell we're not allowed to > save postcodes? If i add postcodes to roads i know as an additional tag, will > that be removed? as a courier I'm actually more used to finding places via > postcode now and tend to use the street name when the postcode fails me! (sat > nav's in all) We're allowed to save them but the OSM format doesn't really cater to them, so a separate project exists at freethepostcode > 6.Speed bumps, now this may sound silly, but is it worth mentioning in a tag > that a road includes speed bumps? I realise this may not seem beneficial now, > but if these maps are ever used for sat nav's it can be used for lorries and > other high usage drivers to attempt to avoid speed bumps and hopefully reduce > stress on the vehicles, the potential for sat nav use is also comes in with > my postcodes & speed limit's/house numbers, names and business locations > questions as well :P Yes - this is under discussion at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/barriers Also cash cameras can be marked up, amenity=speed camera, & as many other shops, petrol stations, toilets, etc as you like! Mark _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
