Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 6:28 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/1/17 Maarten Deenmd...@xs4all.nl: On 2012-01-16 23:27, Robin Paulson wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=-36.878407lon=174.741523zoom=19 the landuse polygon has an orange highlight on it, why does it do that? Just a hint on

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Simone Saviolo
2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: On 1/17/2012 6:28 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/1/17 Maarten Deenmd...@xs4all.nl: On 2012-01-16 23:27, Robin Paulson wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=-36.878407lon=174.741523zoom=19 the landuse polygon has an orange

Re: [Tagging] access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking))

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 17/01/2012 03:31, Anthony wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:30 AM, John Sturdyjcg.stu...@gmail.com  wrote: I understand access=no as meaning no *public* access, but perhaps that is better covered by access=private.

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 8:10 AM, Simone Saviolo wrote: I find it useless to map such wide areas as landuses. There's no point in tagging a whole village's area as landuse=residential, and there's no point in making a sixty-km-wide polygon to indicate that between Parma and Reggio Emilia there's cultivated

Re: [Tagging] access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking))

2012-01-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/17 Anthony o...@inbox.org: A public right of way with a sign that says no horses or no bicycles or buses only does not.  Permission is not given out *on an individual basis*. The buses only-case has to be examined with care. In our current datamodel sidewalks are implicitly part of the

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com wrote: I find it useless to map such wide areas as landuses. There's no point in tagging a whole village's area as landuse=residential, and there's no point in making a sixty-km-wide polygon to indicate that between Parma

[Tagging] psv (was Re: access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)))

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 8:32 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: psv=yes (or bus=yes) This has been bugging me for a while - why do we group buses and taxis? Is this a common grouping in the UK? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: On 1/17/2012 8:10 AM, Simone Saviolo wrote: I'm not suggesting either of these. But a single chunk of houses is clearly all residential, whether it's the size of a few lots or a huge subdivision. +1. public streets are not part of it. Have a look

Re: [Tagging] access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking))

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: The buses only-case has to be examined with care. In our current datamodel sidewalks are implicitly part of the road (at least most people read it like this), so access=no, psv=yes (or bus=yes) might be wrong.

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Simone Saviolo
2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: On 1/17/2012 8:10 AM, Simone Saviolo wrote: I find it useless to map such wide areas as landuses. There's no point in tagging a whole village's area as landuse=residential, and there's no point in making a sixty-km-wide polygon to indicate that

Re: [Tagging] psv (was Re: access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)))

2012-01-17 Thread Simone Saviolo
2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: On 1/17/2012 8:32 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: psv=yes (or bus=yes) This has been bugging me for a while - why do we group buses and taxis? Is this a common grouping in the UK? I don't know about other places, but at least in Italy it's

Re: [Tagging] psv (was Re: access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)))

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:34:48AM -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 1/17/2012 8:32 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: psv=yes (or bus=yes) This has been bugging me for a while - why do we group buses and taxis? Is this a common grouping in the UK? Are there examples of places where taxis can't

Re: [Tagging] psv (was Re: access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)))

2012-01-17 Thread Simone Saviolo
2012/1/17 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:34:48AM -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 1/17/2012 8:32 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: psv=yes (or bus=yes) This has been bugging me for a while - why do we group buses and taxis? Is this a common grouping in the UK?

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Volker Schmidt
Regarding Landuse=residential I do not agree with the approach of the two examples http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=35.323225lon=-119.077089zoom=18 http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=45.301967lon=8.444596zoom=18 Apart from the aspect of overcrowding any map produced from this data, it is

Re: [Tagging] psv (was Re: access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)))

2012-01-17 Thread John Sturdy
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Are there examples of places where taxis can't use a bus lane? Maybe the approaches to a bus station. And certainly within some bus stations, although you might not count that as a bus lane. __John

Re: [Tagging] psv (was Re: access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)))

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:34:48AM -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 1/17/2012 8:32 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: psv=yes (or bus=yes) This has been bugging me for a while - why do we group buses and taxis? Is this a

Re: [Tagging] psv (was Re: access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)))

2012-01-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/17 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:34:48AM -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 1/17/2012 8:32 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: psv=yes (or bus=yes) This has been bugging me for a while - why do we group buses and taxis? Is this a common grouping in the UK?

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread John Sturdy
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding Landuse=residential I do not agree with the approach of the two examples http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=35.323225lon=-119.077089zoom=18 http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=45.301967lon=8.444596zoom=18

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread sabas88
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/highway ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/17 Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com: Apart from the aspect of overcrowding any map produced from this data, what do you mean? In lower zoom levels it looks exactly the same: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.32655lon=-119.07474zoom=15layers=M and in closeups you get the detail that

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 8:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com: Splitting it at roads gives no benefit and complicates editing greatly. This is just ridiculous: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=35.323225lon=-119.077089zoom=18 how does that complicate

Re: [Tagging] psv (was Re: access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)))

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 9:10 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:34:48AM -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 1/17/2012 8:32 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: psv=yes (or bus=yes) This has been bugging me for a while - why do we group buses and taxis? Is this a common grouping in the UK? Are

Re: [Tagging] access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking))

2012-01-17 Thread Colin Smale
On 17/01/2012 14:20, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Colin Smalecolin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 17/01/2012 03:31, Anthony wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:30 AM, John Sturdyjcg.stu...@gmail.comwrote: I understand access=no as meaning no *public* access, but perhaps that

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: But why punch out the land taken up by road right-of-way within the subdivision? Because the land is used (and zoned) for a different purpose. ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 10:00 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: But why punch out the land taken up by road right-of-way within the subdivision? Because the land is used (and zoned) for a different purpose. A residential street is used for

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/1/17 Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com: it is simply not helpful from a practical point of view. What additional information do I gain from excluding the road from the landuse area, it is anyway clear that

Re: [Tagging] access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking))

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Forgive me, you used the phrase publicly owned and I jumped to the conclusion you were talking about land owned by {local,central} governments, and there is plenty of that, much of which is off-limits to the general

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Volker Schmidt
you get the border between public and private land. Why is that not helpful or interesting? I think this is the basic point of my objection: I believe that OSM maps what is out there, not what is legally defined in some document to which we normally have no access. I am interested surely in

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/17/2012 10:00 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com  wrote: But why punch out the land taken up by road right-of-way within the subdivision? Because the land

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:  In my experience, the property line is not at the curb, but some distance back from the curb.  A reserved area is held for utilities, road expansion, snowplow debris, etc. Depends a lot on the jurisdiction (in some

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Jo
For what it's worth. When I start rendering/printing maps based on OSM, I think it's extremely ugly if the landuse is not 'connected' to the roads, i.e. that the landuse uses separate parallel ways with a small space in between for its definition. I also prefer to create landuses as big as

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/17/2012 10:00 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: But why punch out the land taken up by road right-of-way

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Simone Saviolo
2012/1/17 Jo winfi...@gmail.com: For what it's worth. When I start rendering/printing maps based on OSM, I think it's extremely ugly if the landuse is not 'connected' to the roads, i.e. that the landuse uses separate parallel ways with a small space in between for its definition. I also

Re: [Tagging] psv

2012-01-17 Thread Kytömaa Lauri
Are there examples of places where taxis can't use a bus lane? Like in Germany, also in Finland some bus lanes are just for buses, whereas on some roads the traffic sign includes the word taxi to allow both. ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/17 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com: you get the border between public and private land. Why is that not helpful or interesting? You get the border between public and private land _wrong_.  In my experience, the property line is not at the curb, but some distance back from the curb.  A

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/17 Jo winfi...@gmail.com: So you'll often observe me joining adjacent landuses for places I want to render or places I get serious about retracing from Bing or cleaning up non ODBL compliant data. I think this is where the problem starts: people removing detail from the map data which

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com  wrote: A residential street is used for residential purposes: traveling to and from a house, parking cars,

Re: [Tagging] psv (was Re: access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)))

2012-01-17 Thread Volker Schmidt
In Italy the decision who can use a bus lane is decided at the local level. It is the local authorities who decide what the authorized traffic is that that can use bus lanes. In Padua, for example, that includes bicycles, but that fact is not evident from any road signs. Volker On 17 January

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth. When I start rendering/printing maps based on OSM, I think it's extremely ugly if the landuse is not 'connected' to the roads, i.e. that the landuse uses separate parallel ways with a small space in between for

Re: [Tagging] Chaos and uncertainty in bridge

2012-01-17 Thread sylvain letuffe
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote Last but not least I'd like to ask you for comments on 3 new values: N1. a bridge made of few ropes where you walk on a rope: http://bauwiki.tugraz.at/pub/Baulexikon/HaengeSeilBrueckeB/Kaiserschild_1.jpg

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 11:18 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: A residential street is used for residential purposes:

Re: [Tagging] psv (was Re: access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)))

2012-01-17 Thread Ben Johnson
On 18/01/2012, at 0:52, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: On 1/17/2012 8:32 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: psv=yes (or bus=yes) This has been bugging me for a while - why do we group buses and taxis? Is this a common grouping

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth. When I start rendering/printing maps based on OSM, I think it's extremely ugly if the landuse is not 'connected' to the roads, i.e. that the landuse uses separate parallel ways with a small space in between

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 08:30 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 1/17/2012 8:10 AM, Simone Saviolo wrote: I find it useless to map such wide areas as landuses. There's no point in tagging a whole village's area as landuse=residential, and there's no point in making a sixty-km-wide polygon to

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/17/2012 11:18 AM, Anthony wrote: And the primary use of the land is for travel (and not just travel to and from a house, the most common travel is probably between a house and work). Between a house and work is

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 09:42 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 1/17/2012 8:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com: Splitting it at roads gives no benefit and complicates editing greatly. This is just ridiculous:

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 15:25 +0100, Volker Schmidt wrote: Regarding Landuse=residential I do not agree with the approach of the two examples http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=35.323225lon=-119.077089zoom=18 http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=45.301967lon=8.444596zoom=18 Apart from

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 10:18 -0500, Richard Weait wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/1/17 Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com: it is simply not helpful from a practical point of view. What additional information do I gain from