Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Richard Z.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 01:24:07AM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2014, Richard Z. wrote: Therefore, everyone needs now to handle those hardly useful layer warnings about trivial cases (and waste their time on correcting them). even worse, people just apply layer=-1 to

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread André Pirard
Hi, I wonder why we make bridges split and split and split the roads. In reality, bridges are pieces of concrete or stonework at level -1 under an uninterrupted foil of tarmac at level 0. Or at level 0 if it's understood that the renderer knows what's a bridge. And the renderer knows, as it draws

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 14/mar/2014 um 15:51 schrieb Fernando Trebien fernando.treb...@gmail.com: Do you agree that the river can be tagged with layer=-1 as long as this value is correct in relation to the layer of other nearby/crossing ways? I would discourage you to do so. Layer tags should only be applied

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 14/mar/2014 um 16:36 schrieb Pieren pier...@gmail.com: Real case from real world : a deep ditch where the stream is not underground but below the ground level, is crossing a village where we have 10 bridges. Either you add 10 times layer=1 on the bridges or you add 1 time layer=-1 on

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 14/mar/2014 um 16:35 schrieb Fernando Trebien fernando.treb...@gmail.com: From this logic, layer=-1 means the object is rendered beneath anything that has layer=0 (or, conversely, that anything with layer=0 is rendered on top of anything with layer=-1). It does not mean that it is in

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 14/mar/2014 um 19:55 schrieb Fernando Trebien fernando.treb...@gmail.com: I don't think you should be required to check the river's layer tag. Validators should do this job for you, it's quite easy to write a rule for that. first you'll have to download all data along this river in

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi, I agree partially with you here. Yes, adding bridges in addition to the road is possible and may be a good idea. What we currently map as being a bridge in fact is the property of the road is on a bridge instead. Changing the current tagging scheme to duplicate the corresponding segment of

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread John Packer
I believe there was a proposal for tagging a bridge separately: man_made=bridge. I think it would be really nice to have the actual outline of the bridge rendered Em 15/03/2014 10:02, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de escreveu: Hi, I agree partially with you here. Yes, adding bridges

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Richard Z.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 01:25:16PM +0100, André Pirard wrote: Hi, I wonder why we make bridges split and split and split the roads. do not like that too much either. In reality, bridges are pieces of concrete or stonework at level -1 under an uninterrupted foil of tarmac at level 0. but

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi John, yes, that's one possibility; knew that already, but thanks for pointing the list to the link. regards Peter Am 15.03.2014 14:16, schrieb John Packer: I believe there was a proposal for tagging a bridge separately: man_made=bridge. I think it would be really nice to have the actual

Re: [Tagging] surface=ground/dirt/earth

2014-03-15 Thread Fernando Trebien
Please correct me if I'm wrong, after reading what you said, I think that the point that I was missing was this: - tracktype is the degree of compaction of the material (regardless of material) - smoothness is the degree of irregularity of the surface (for wheeled vehicles, also regardless of

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Frank Little
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am 14/mar/2014 um 15:51 schrieb Fernando Trebien fernando.treb...@gmail.com: Do you agree that the river can be tagged with layer=-1 as long as this value is correct in relation to the layer of other nearby/crossing ways? I would discourage you to do so. Layer tags

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Fernando Trebien
Alright. I see that applying layer to long ways is bad for several reasons. Surely this could be turned into a validation warning. But what's the difference between tagging the bridge with layer=1 and tagging the river underneath with layer=-1? Some people seem to think that both are necessary,

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Frank Little
Fernando Trebien wrote: Alright. I see that applying layer to long ways is bad for several reasons. Surely this could be turned into a validation warning. But what's the difference between tagging the bridge with layer=1 and tagging the river underneath with layer=-1? Some people seem to think

Re: [Tagging] Landuse=civic_admin

2014-03-15 Thread Colin Smale
Civil administration is surely hardly a land use. A council office is no different to any other office. I suggest looking at planning zones and their designations as a reference. Typically classifications like residential, retail, commercial, industrial and agricultural are seen, and changing

Re: [Tagging] surface=ground/dirt/earth

2014-03-15 Thread johnw
In summary: - tracktype tag=surface:compaction - smoothness tag=surface:regularity - surface tag=surface:material_structure That is how I understand it. the Smoothness is the most subjective one, but the others should be pretty straightforward. Javbw

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Fernando Trebien
the validator will only prevent the most obvious errors but will give you no clue how to fix them correctly I know. But two or three rounds of trial and error with the validator should be enough to bring a new user to an acceptable representation. there is no difference between connections in

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Fernando Trebien
I thought a bit more and this statement I said is incorrect: Correct, let's add within the same level to all of those rules, and assume level=0 when level is not specified in a tag. Then they all work also for indoor mapping. The correct wording of those warning rules, taking indoor mapping into

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Fernando Trebien
Here are a few arguable reasons to split the waterway and tag it with layer=-1: 1. Bridges may come in pairs for dual carriageways. In this case, it's a single layer tag for the waterway versus 2 layer tags for the bridges. This may happen many times in a row. In this case, it makes sense to split

Re: [Tagging] surface=ground/dirt/earth

2014-03-15 Thread Fernando Trebien
It's not that straightforward to me since tracktype is described in terms of surface materials, which can have widely varying levels of compaction. But great, I'll update the articles trying to make this distinction clearer, then post back here my changes. On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:59 PM, johnw

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Richard Z.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 02:06:13PM -0300, Fernando Trebien wrote: the validator will only prevent the most obvious errors but will give you no clue how to fix them correctly I know. But two or three rounds of trial and error with the validator should be enough to bring a new user to an

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 15.03.2014 19:19, schrieb Fernando Trebien: Here are a few arguable reasons to split the waterway and tag it with layer=-1: 1. Bridges may come in pairs for dual carriageways. In this case, it's a single layer tag for the waterway versus 2 layer tags for the bridges. This may happen many

Re: [Tagging] surface=ground/dirt/earth

2014-03-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-03-15 16:29 GMT+01:00 Fernando Trebien fernando.treb...@gmail.com: tracktype is the degree of compaction of the material (regardless of material) I have always more thought of it how much it was constructed, while tracktype=1 is a paved road, 5 will be a track on grass (almost or not

Re: [Tagging] layer=-1, rivers, bridges and tunnels

2014-03-15 Thread Richard Z.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 03:19:36PM -0300, Fernando Trebien wrote: Situation 1 happens in many other cities across the world, and if you tag the bridge as layer=1, you may end up inverting the rendering order of highways, leading to this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/138032009 what

Re: [Tagging] Landuse=civic_admin

2014-03-15 Thread johnw
On Mar 16, 2014, at 1:09 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I'd consider neither courthouses nor government buildings administration. Federal buildings in the US are the equivalent to branch offices of the US government - basically national hall - they are very far apart,