Re: [Tagging] Long-distance scenic roads

2011-02-23 Thread Peter Budny
? In that view, secondary seems appropriate, because it's not really relevant for general travel. This also helps less-sophisticated routing engines that don't have access to speed limit data. I think this is probably what I would go with. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS MS student

Re: [Tagging] unclear motorway_junctions

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Budny
describe it, which I think is what you're looking for. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] unclear motorway_junctions

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Budny
Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com writes: I don't think the destination sign relation is quite for this... that is (I think) more for having your satnav say follow the signs

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-dev] Super-relations or not

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Budny
? As far as I'm concerned, the difference in what's required to tag things is minimal between these concerns. Therefore, wouldn't it make the most sense to choose whichever is programmatically the easiest and most flexible to deal with? -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-dev] Super-relations or not

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Budny
Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net writes: Peter Budny wrote: If you want this to be the standard way of tagging things, then we NEED to get the tools up to spec. I also noticed that Potlatch doesn't change the role from forward to backward when you reverse a way. (JOSM does

[Tagging] Super-relations or not (was: Relation member_roles from Osmosis import)

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Budny
(sorry for the crossposting, but this really applies globally, as well as for recent discussions on the talk-us list) Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org writes: On Wed, Oct 27

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Budny
Anthony o...@inbox.org writes: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: Anthony o...@inbox.org writes: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 10/21/2010 08:06 AM, Anthony wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Greg Troxelg

Re: [Tagging] atms with names?

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Budny
ATM or Lenox Square Mall ATM. It sounds like what you're describing fits in operator=* or brand=*. I don't know about network=*... even though they're called networks, that seems like a different meaning from the existing uses of network=* in OSM. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-21 Thread Peter Budny
that the US is divided into states which are divided into counties, Mexico is divided into estados which are divided into minicipios, Japan is divided into ken (prefectures) which are divided into combinations of shi (cities), cho (towns), and mura (villages), etc. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
different history and organization. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Andrew S. J. Sawyer assaw...@gmail.com writes: My thoughts are mixed in below. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:17, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com writes: tagging admin area / populated centers / labels in USA seems to come down to two

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Richard Weait rich...@weait.com writes: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: [ ... ] I forgot to mention control cities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_city). These are cities that are designated for use on highway signs to indicate which direction

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
to render each label. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
probably would indicate the township boundaries on most maps in a similar (though somewhat less prominent) manner to county boundaries - at least at certain zoom levels. It sounds like you may have just found a use for the missing admin_level=7 in the US. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Anthony o...@inbox.org writes: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: Anthony o...@inbox.org writes: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim McAndrew j...@loc8.us wrote: There are townships in other states that are managed differently, but in PA and NJ

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
way to match the tags to what they actually represent. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
/Local_government_in_Pennsylvania) So, are Pennsylvania school districts admin_level=7? I wouldn't think of school districts as a form of governmental/political division, which is what admin_level represents in my mind. Not that they shouldn't be on the map, but I think they belong under a different tag. -- Peter Budny

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] How can the US get its stuff together? (was Re: Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap)

2010-10-16 Thread Peter Budny
like a good road song. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/roadsong.cfm For better or worse, that made me think of images like http://failblog.org/2008/07/03/sign-design-fail/ Whether it's a good thing or not, we still have to figure out how to tag it. Bear with us. -- Peter Budny

Re: [Tagging] Country names

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Budny
for a sign that says exactly that, without the router needing to know anything about what the local language is. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

[Tagging] Country names

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Budny
the inconsistency? Either way makes sense, but shouldn't we pick one and stick with it? -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging