Re: [Tagging] tagging large intersections cross-road sections

2015-06-25 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 02:42:23PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone Am 24.06.2015 um 11:08 schrieb Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de: motorway_link is not a different highway type - Its some attribute which slipped into the highway type. I don't agree. It might work

Re: [Tagging] tagging large intersections cross-road sections

2015-06-25 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:44:21PM +0300, Lauri Kytömaa wrote: Three points here: I thought the originally linked video said that they already detect and deal with the short sections within intersections and they only tell the correct, final, road name. So the problem in this discussion has

Re: [Tagging] Concrete kerbs in highway

2015-06-25 Thread Clifford Snow
Going with the theme of lazy wins out, having to convert a way into a dual carriageway is a pain. That is why using the tag kerb=center would 1) tell routing engines that left turns are not permitted and 2) possibly render more accurately. Dual carriageways renders [1] as if there is median when

Re: [Tagging] Concrete kerbs in highway

2015-06-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-06-25 17:38 GMT+02:00 Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us: Going with the theme of lazy wins out, having to convert a way into a dual carriageway is a pain. That is why using the tag kerb=center would 1) tell routing engines that left turns are not permitted and 2) possibly render more

Re: [Tagging] Concrete kerbs in highway

2015-06-25 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: but this would only work on a road with no crossings (or all crossing on both roads at the same spot)... Marin, I must be a little slow this morning, please elaborate. -- @osm_seattle

Re: [Tagging] Concrete kerbs in highway

2015-06-25 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/25/15 11:52 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: but this would only work on a road with no crossings (or all crossing on both roads at the same spot)... Marin, I must be a

Re: [Tagging] Concrete kerbs in highway

2015-06-25 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: the issue, i think is that frequently there are highways that have raised concrete barriers, but with frequent gaps. you end up needing to model this one way or another. there is not really an easy way out. True.

Re: [Tagging] tagging large intersections cross-road sections

2015-06-25 Thread John Willis
On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:33 PM, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: From a legal perspective they are not something different ;) Motorway might be something Although it goes against the OSM model, all roads above tertiary in Japan follow their legal designation rather than actual conditions to