Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

2017-02-24 Thread john whelan
>I think the existing advice is correct. highway=road is supposed to mean "I'm not sure what the classification is". Some routers ignore it? Yes that is a problem. At best they should rank it quite low. Outright *ignoring* the road seems like a bug. However don't tag for the renderer! Yes, it's

Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

2017-02-24 Thread Rory McCann
On 22/02/17 23:42, john whelan wrote: > Currently there are HOT projects that include in the instructions the words > > "If you are unsure of what tag to assign to a road, use the provisional > highway=road tag." > > Yes but many routing systems ignore this these. When we mapped with GPS >

Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

2017-02-23 Thread Ralf Stephan
Accepting highway:road goes contrary to all related threads I read on this list. On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:02 PM Paul Norman wrote: > On 2/22/2017 2:42 PM, john whelan wrote: > > > > "If you are unsure of what tag to assign to a road, use the > > provisional highway=road

Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

2017-02-23 Thread Paul Norman
On 2/22/2017 2:42 PM, john whelan wrote: "If you are unsure of what tag to assign to a road, use the provisional highway=road tag." Yes but many routing systems ignore this these. When we mapped with GPS traces we used highway=road because you didn't know if it was a motorway or a footway

Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

2017-02-22 Thread Pierre Béland
2017 18h01 Objet : Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road But how many tiles get validated and how many validators check for highway=road every time? I'm not sure I do. Cheerio John On 22 February 2017 at 17:51, yo paseopor <yopaseo...@gmail.com> wrote: Some projects of HOT s

Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

2017-02-22 Thread john whelan
But how many tiles get validated and how many validators check for highway=road every time? I'm not sure I do. Cheerio John On 22 February 2017 at 17:51, yo paseopor wrote: > Some projects of HOT should re-define their instructions. Also I think it > would be interesting

Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

2017-02-22 Thread yo paseopor
Some projects of HOT should re-define their instructions. Also I think it would be interesting a specific HOT taggin' in some parts of a mapathon or similar (for example in phase one , when you have 50 unexperienced mappers making roads with bad imagery, it would useful a specific tagging

[HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

2017-02-22 Thread john whelan
Currently there are HOT projects that include in the instructions the words "If you are unsure of what tag to assign to a road, use the provisional highway=road tag." Yes but many routing systems ignore this these. When we mapped with GPS traces we used highway=road because you didn't know if