Re: [Tagging] levees

2010-10-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 October 2010 02:56, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >>> embankment=yes would work for the vast majority of cases, but there >>> may be some that service vehicles can't drive on. >> >> Most levees I've seen in Australia don't have a track running along >> the top, the one at Goondiwindi has a footway

Re: [Tagging] levees

2010-10-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:59 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 29 October 2010 08:24, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> Is there a standard way to tag a levee? It seems that highway=track >> embankment=yes would work for the vast majority of cases, but there >> may be some that service vehicles can't drive on.

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

2010-10-29 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 29 Oct 2010, at 9:05 , Peter Budny wrote: > > P.P.S. Why do I see so many route relations where a way has been added > more than once, sometimes up to 5 times, with the same role? What is > that supposed to mean? typically an error. only use case where it makes sense is a bus route which so

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

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Budny
Andy Allan writes: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Peter Budny wrote: > >> That doesn't work; there are cases where it's ambiguous.  If you look at >> [1], US-278 runs along North Avenue (bottom) and Ponce de Leon Avenue >> (top), connected by Monroe Drive (left) and Piedmont Avenue (right).

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-29 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Peter Wendorff wrote: > compass don't work if the way is rotated for some other reason. You mean if the roadway itself is reconstructed? Then, no, it wouldn't work. > But: forward/backward is easy to support by editors (as left/right is > supported yet by JOSM e

Re: [Tagging] levees

2010-10-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On 10/28/2010 05:24 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > Is there a standard way to tag a levee? It seems that highway=track > embankment=yes would work for the vast majority of cases, but there > may be some that service vehicles can't drive on. Most levees don't have tracks or anything on top because t

Re: [Tagging] levees

2010-10-29 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/29 Nathan Edgars II : > Should this be > separately tagged with such a name, yes > or is it assumed that a canal next > to a levee shares a name (like a sidewalk next to a road)? don't assume anything cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing li

Re: [Tagging] levees

2010-10-29 Thread John Smith
On 29 October 2010 08:24, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > Is there a standard way to tag a levee? It seems that highway=track > embankment=yes would work for the vast majority of cases, but there > may be some that service vehicles can't drive on. Most levees I've seen in Australia don't have a track r

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 29.10.2010 03:17, schrieb Paul Johnson: On 10/27/2010 11:47 AM, Peter Wendorff wrote: Another point is: if forward/backward is used, a mapper can see with common knowledge, that tagging a stop sign at the intersection node is no good idea. Compass could in theory be tagged at the intersectin