Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: >>I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have >>4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best >>you can do short of mapping each address individually. > > Ex

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Tobias Knerr
Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: >> I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have >> 4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best >> you can do short of mapping each address individually. > > Except for this pesky line in th

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Alan Mintz > wrote: > At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: > >I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have > >4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best > >you can do short of mapping each address individually.

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: >I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have >4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best >you can do short of mapping each address individually. Except for this pesky line in the wiki page, which is what imp

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-22 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Dave F. wrote: > > Then doesn't that make it a cycleway? If you're legally allowed to take > a bike down there then, in the eyes of OSM, it's a cycleway Err no. "highway=cycleway indicates that the used way is mainly or exclusively for bicycles"; "the route is des

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-22 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Anthony wrote: > "Motorway" is not a term defined in the MUTCD > It is, however, a term defined in the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, which says: "On motorways and, if so provided in domestic legislation, on special approach roads to and exit roads from moto

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-22 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Steve Bennett wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Paul Johnson > wrote: > > > >> > Depends on the country. > >> > >> I'm gonna have to disagree... if it allows both pedestrians and > >> bicycles, that would be a cycleway in most ca

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: > >> The current scheme with >>drawing a way to interpolate is too much work and cumbersome, for me >>anyways. > > I agree it's cumbersome. The interval is not definite - only that it be at > least 2 because of the spec of being odd on the north/

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-22 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > Depends on the country. >> >> I'm gonna have to disagree... if it allows both pedestrians and >> bicycles, that would be a cycleway in most cases. >> >> > Disagree all you like. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wi

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-22 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Dave F. wrote: > Stephen Hope wrote: > > 2009/12/22 Paul Johnson : > > > >> I'm gonna have to disagree... if it allows both pedestrians and > >> bicycles, that would be a cycleway in most cases. > >> > >> > > > > Around me, that is not the case. The law where I

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-22 Thread Dave F.
Stephen Hope wrote: > 2009/12/22 Paul Johnson : > >> I'm gonna have to disagree... if it allows both pedestrians and >> bicycles, that would be a cycleway in most cases. >> >> > > Around me, that is not the case. The law where I live is that anybody > is allowed to cycle on any footpath, u

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2009-12-22 02:07, Erik Johansson wrote: >On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Alan Mintz > wrote: > > At 2009-12-21 11:01, Roy Wallace wrote: > >>... If you don't know where the other end of the > >>street is, you can't use an addr:interpolation way, so it seems to me > >>that you are just tagging

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Erik Johansson
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2009-12-21 11:01, Roy Wallace wrote: >>... If you don't know where the other end of the >>street is, you can't use an addr:interpolation way, so it seems to me >>that you are just tagging a sign. >> >>Is there already a tagging scheme for th

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-22 Thread Mike Harris
... And just to make the point that there are 'different strokes for different folks' in England it is against the law to ride a bicycle on a public footpath (except in the rare cases where a legal exception has been made). This is regardless of whether or not it is feasible to cycle ... And, as it