Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-09-01 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:48 PM, ael law_ence@ntlworld.com wrote: To suggest that we now have to include every possible tag with an explicit value on every element is just ridiculous: the logical consequence of an explicit oneway on all ways. +1 The rule is and has always been in OSM the

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-29 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 28.08.2014 um 23:02 schrieb Xavier Noria: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: No, it isn't. The interpretation of the database, and the meaning, restricted to the fact of the streets oneway-ness is the same, but no value at all does not say

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-29 Thread Xavier Noria
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: +0.5, as UIs are decoupled from the data in OSM. You may write your own editor with a completely different UI, even one that doesn't know about oneway at all, so reasoning on UI preferences may help to get the

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-29 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 29.08.2014 um 09:58 schrieb Xavier Noria: On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: +0.5, as UIs are decoupled from the data in OSM. You may write your own editor with a completely different UI, even one that doesn't know about oneway at all, so

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-29 Thread ael
To suggest that we now have to include every possible tag with an explicit value on every element is just ridiculous: the logical consequence of an explicit oneway on all ways. Where there really is a need to remove ambiguity, surely something like an area or perhaps relation (less obvious to the

[Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
Hi, The default value for oneway is no for most types of roads. That is, if the attribute has no value set, no is assumed. Which is the rationale for that default? In the European cities and towns I know the majority of streets are one-way. For example Barcelona, or Madrid, or Paris. In such

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi Xavier, no is the default value of the oneway tag as it's the most correct assumption. First as in general most roads are not oneway roads (considering any road inside and outside of cities), and second as the other case around would be even worse: If yes, this is a oneway street would be

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Stephan Knauss
Xavier Noria writes: In the European cities and towns I know the majority of streets are one-way. In not a single EU city I know of there is something close to a majority of streets being one-way. Even more. In most of the villages the roads are not one-way. Based on this it's a good

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Dave F.
I wish people in OSM would stop making things up, believing it makes their point of view stronger. On 28/08/2014 13:20, Xavier Noria wrote: In the European cities and towns I know the majority of streets are one-way. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: I wish people in OSM would stop making things up, believing it makes their point of view stronger. What? I am not assuming one-way would be a better default. Nor I am assuming anything about the world at large. What are

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Xavier Noria wrote, on 2014-08-28 15:45: 2) In cities and towns where two-way streets are exceptional like Barcelona or Madrid, are people expected to tag them no? The motivation for this question is that there seems to be the convention not to tag them, and therefore you cannot tell the

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Dan S
2014-08-28 14:45 GMT+01:00 Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: I wish people in OSM would stop making things up, believing it makes their point of view stronger. What? I am not assuming one-way would be a better default. Nor

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Colin Smale
On 2014-08-28 15:53, Dan S wrote: As Peter said, the default for services using OSM is always to assume a way is _not_ oneway unless tagged otherwise. Unless it is tagged as junction=roundabout ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: 2) In cities and towns where two-way streets are exceptional like Barcelona or Madrid, are people expected to tag them no? The motivation for this question is that there seems to be the convention not to tag them, and

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
For the sake of discussion, I believe the interface for setting this attribute could be different (I am a software developer). For example, in graphical interfaces like iD you could have no preselected as convenience. But if you send no, you are saying no. Otherwise, you could opt-out and leave

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Bryan Housel
Right now, the oneway checkbox in iD cycles through “Yes” “No” and “Assumed to be No” (blank). There are a handful of situations that will switch this checkbox to say “Yes” “No” and “Assumed to be Yes” (blank). (for example, a `junction=roundabout` or `highway=motorway` tag) It sounds to me

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Simon Poole
I believe that you haven't explicitly said so, but probably essentially want to be able to find streets that haven't been surveyed and potentially need a oneway tag and avoid false positives (aka such that are actually bi-directional). I don't believe you'll get any further with the oneway tag,

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote: Right now, the oneway checkbox in iD cycles through “Yes” “No” and “Assumed to be No” (blank). There are a handful of situations that will switch this checkbox to say “Yes” “No” and “Assumed to be Yes” (blank).

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: I believe that you haven't explicitly said so, but probably essentially want to be able to find streets that haven't been surveyed and potentially need a oneway tag and avoid false positives (aka such that are actually

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Simon Poole
Am 28.08.2014 17:07, schrieb Xavier Noria: ... That makes me also wonder as a side-effect about the implication of the current contract and the usage patterns it promotes. Implications in particular for turn-by-turn indications, but that was secondary, my main motivation is the one above.

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: In any case there are roughly 45 million highway segments on which a oneway tag could make sense, vs. roughly 6 million oneway=yes and 1.5 million oneway=no. I suspect that it is really -far- too late to change the semantics

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread John Packer
For a street, there is no practical difference nowadays between no and unset, which is a smell for me. Either way means no. For the software? No, there isn't a difference. For the mapper? Yes, there is a difference. Since nowadays NULL for a street means oneway=no a change in the semantics

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:52 PM, John Packer john.pack...@gmail.com wrote: For a street, there is no practical difference nowadays between no and unset, which is a smell for me. Either way means no. For the software? No, there isn't a difference. For the mapper? Yes, there is a difference.

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 13:52 -0300, John Packer wrote: For a street, there is no practical difference nowadays between no and unset, which is a smell for me. Either way means no. For the software? No, there isn't a difference. For the mapper? Yes, there is a

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: +1 To use add oneway=no in selected areas to confirm the road has been surveyed is fine, but not everywhere as that causes tag clutter and makes it difficult for a mapper to see the important tags. Which tools does a

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Simon Poole
Am 28.08.2014 19:10, schrieb Xavier Noria: ... But for example, every single client software of OSM that is out of control of OSM is assuming that contract. That's what I believe makes a reset (no NULLs in the database) plus semantic change for NULLs would not be possible. No way to

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 19:16 +0200, Xavier Noria wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: +1 To use add oneway=no in selected areas to confirm the road has been surveyed is fine, but not everywhere as that causes tag clutter and makes it

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
Since I see the characteristics of Barcelona (and other cities/towns I know) are exceptional for most of you guys, let me share a couple of maps to explain where I am coming from. This is a typical sector of Barcelona: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k7o32zbneoi8y6q/barcelona_sample.png?dl=0 As

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
2014-08-28 22:31 GMT+02:00 Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com: that area in the center with many blue lines... almost all of them are wrong. You cannot rely on that default in Barcelona at all. And in this really rare situation it is reasonable to use oneway=no.

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 28.08.2014 um 19:10 schrieb Xavier Noria: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:52 PM, John Packer john.pack...@gmail.com wrote: For a street, there is no practical difference nowadays between no and unset, which is a smell for me. Either way means no. For the software? No, there isn't a difference.

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 28.08.2014 um 22:35 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: 2014-08-28 22:31 GMT+02:00 Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com: that area in the center with many blue lines... almost all of them are wrong. You cannot rely on that default in Barcelona at all. And in this really rare situation it is reasonable

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: Am 28.08.2014 um 22:35 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: 2014-08-28 22:31 GMT+02:00 Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com: that area in the center with many blue lines... almost all of them are wrong. You cannot rely on that

Re: [Tagging] default value for oneway

2014-08-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: No, it isn't. The interpretation of the database, and the meaning, restricted to the fact of the streets oneway-ness is the same, but no value at all does not say this is no oneway street, it says nothing more