Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 22. April 2012 16:43 schrieb Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com: I've had a look for uk guidance as the uk's ordnance survey was mentioned, and a lot of older uk advice appears based around a now historic view that 'cars = saloon cars' and were 1.8m or less. If cars were assumed to be

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Krämer
Am 23. April 2012 13:05 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com : Am 22. April 2012 16:43 schrieb Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com : But saloon cars are no longer the 'standard' car, in the uk they've more or less been replaced by hatchbacks 4x4's. If we look at best

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-23 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, martinq wrote: I've had a look for uk guidance as the uk's ordnance survey was mentioned, and a lot of older uk advice appears based around a now historic view that 'cars = saloon cars' and were 1.8m or less. If cars were assumed to be 1.8m wide then implied OS figure

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-23 Thread Martin Vonwald
On April 23rd 2012 13:05 many people wrote something about car width . The only reason we started discussing about the width of vehicles was a recommendation for narrow roads with two lanes to replace the lanes=1.5: if someone can not or does not want to measure the width of the road,

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 23. April 2012 13:45 schrieb Martin Vonwald imagic@gmail.com: the road, we need some recommend value for est_width. If we agree on, that most cars have a width of something around 2 meters, a good value for the estimated(!) width of a road with two lanes, which is so narrow, that

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-23 Thread Pieren
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Ronnie Soak chaoschaos0...@googlemail.com wrote: It may be harder to estimate a width in meters instead of a lanes count, but I think it's possible within +/- 1m, especially for narrow ways. (I personally only use it with either rather narrow or rather wide

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-23 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer the second form. You will never have widths with cm precision, so they will always be somehow estimates, because even if you measure them precisely they won't probably be exactly the same 10 or 100

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-23 Thread Jason Cunningham
On 23 April 2012 12:05, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Am 22. April 2012 16:43 schrieb Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com : I've had a look for uk guidance as the uk's ordnance survey was mentioned, and a lot of older uk advice appears based around a now historic

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-23 Thread Kytömaa Lauri
Am 21.04.2012 um 13:34 schrieb Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvi...@helsinki.fi: ...What I don't really care if it is called lanes=1.5 or lanes=1/2+some_other_agreed_tag_which_is_not_an_estimated_width=x, but simply saying that use lanes=1/2 alone instead I oppose. I would recommend lanes=2 and

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-23 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/4/23 Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com: Problem with that, and why I am said this is far more complex than I first thought, is some people responding to lanes=1.5 by saying 'computers' only like whole numbers. This suggests width=4.3 would need to be rounded to either width=4 or

[Tagging] Block names (vs street names) in Brasilia

2012-04-23 Thread Alex Barth
Last week we've done some walking papers work in Brasilia and there are now some questions on how to enter data. Brasilia and its satellites do not use street names, but an elaborate block numbering system. Before we start entering data, I'd like to propose a proper way to enter blocks.

Re: [Tagging] Block names (vs street names) in Brasilia

2012-04-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Apr 23, 2012 3:57 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Brasilia and its satellites do not use street names, but an elaborate block numbering system. Before we start entering data, I'd like to propose a proper way to enter blocks. I would strongly consider taking a look at towns and cities