[Tagging] Object rankings & vector tiles (Re: Road classification)

2015-09-03 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 03.09.2015 10:06, Michał Brzozowski napisał(a): This (importance ranking) is something I thought recently. How about devising a data-driven importance rank? One could priotitize POI that have a Wikipedia page or even grab publicly available pageview stats from them. There are numerous

Re: [Tagging] Heliport tagging

2015-09-03 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:39:25 +0200 Daniel Koć wrote: > I was trying to use helicopter icon for rendering helipads on default > style, but it looks like it was not needed here and instead it could > be good to be used for heliports. However they are currently >

Re: [Tagging] Buildings mixing residential and commercial use

2015-09-03 Thread John Eldredge
This makes sense to me. In Nashville, Tennessee, USA, where I live, it is becoming stylish for young professional people to live in downtown apartments. These buildings usually have retail, restaurants, and/or offices at ground level and perhaps a floor or two higher, then apartments (flats)

Re: [Tagging] Access tags (general question, but mostly regarding bicycle)

2015-09-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:57:47 +0200 > Richard wrote: > > > Imo *=designated and *=permissive also imply infomration about > > suitability. > > Typically it is true - but in theory something may

Re: [Tagging] Access tags (general question, but mostly regarding bicycle)

2015-09-03 Thread Volker Schmidt
Come here to my city to find heaps of designated cycleways that are nearly unusable! Both designated and permissive are purely legal access definitions, not implying anything abut the practical suitability of the way. To describe the physical suitability we have tags like: surface; width;

Re: [Tagging] Road classification

2015-09-03 Thread Michał Brzozowski
This (importance ranking) is something I thought recently. How about devising a data-driven importance rank? One could priotitize POI that have a Wikipedia page or even grab publicly available pageview stats from them. There are numerous ways to implement something good enough, you just have to be

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-09-03 Thread Marc Gemis
I'm having a deja-vu :-) Anyone remember the discussion: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-March/016811.html ? There someone stated that "ground" is too ambiguous in British English: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-March/016836.html after that I

[Tagging] Heliport tagging

2015-09-03 Thread Daniel Koć
I was trying to use helicopter icon for rendering helipads on default style, but it looks like it was not needed here and instead it could be good to be used for heliports. However they are currently unrecognizable from plane airports:

Re: [Tagging] Access tags (general question, but mostly regarding bicycle)

2015-09-03 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:57:47 +0200 Richard wrote: > Imo *=designated and *=permissive also imply infomration about > suitability. Typically it is true - but in theory something may be legally cycleway and unsuitable for cyclists. It would be bicycle=designated (but it is

Re: [Tagging] Trolltags

2015-09-03 Thread Richard
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:49:56AM +0200, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > highway=footway+bicycle=designated is incorrect tagging (and JOSM > validator keeps number of wrong tagging relatively low). > > I unsure about highway=bridleway+bicycle=designated but given that it > appears 2 129 times

Re: [Tagging] Access tags (general question, but mostly regarding bicycle)

2015-09-03 Thread Richard
On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 10:38:21PM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Richard wrote: > > > Just wondered - when did anyone here last see a wheelchair=no road sign? > > Is any > > of these 214658 tags correct? > >

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-09-03 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 31.08.2015 um 12:41 schrieb moltonel 3x Combo : > > Between soil, dirt, ground, earth, and mud, dirt is the worst defined > of the lot, and I would hesitate to use it for anything. +1. I'm against the proposed mechanical edit. Cheers, Martin

Re: [Tagging] Access tags (general question, but mostly regarding bicycle)

2015-09-03 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
Just a minor correction. On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Paul Johnson wrote: > Bonus round from yet further up: > > highway=tertiary > bicycle=designated > cycleway=lane > parking:lanes:right=parallel   (after the parking restriction sign at least; > before that it's fire_lane) >

[Tagging] Classification problems (was: Re: Road classification)

2015-09-03 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 03.09.2015 0:49, John Willis napisał(a): Rant: I agree that importance is very important. But not everyone agrees. Some big issues at last - yummy! =} I mentioned "importance" on the -carto github page (rendering mountain icons based on a tagged "importance" score or something), and

Re: [Tagging] Classification problems (was: Re: Road classification)

2015-09-03 Thread johnw
> On Sep 3, 2015, at 10:11 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: > > > I think that's what should be expected, so I'm not surprised at all. It's > probably easier to make a hand-picked map in a fixed scale of one country by > one expert, than the rules for the automatically generated

Re: [Tagging] Heliport tagging

2015-09-03 Thread johnw
> On Sep 3, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: > > I was trying to use helicopter icon for rendering helipads on default style, > but it looks like it was not needed here and instead it could be good to be > used for heliports. However they are currently