Re: [Tagging] Conditional restrictions accepted – turn restrictions ahead?

2012-10-15 Thread Eckhart Wörner
Hi Martin, Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2012, 02:18:30 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > > apparently Conditional Restrictions has become an approved feature, even > > though nobody mentioned it here. While I still believe that this is a > > sub-optimal solution (and still nobody has passed the test I

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
I'd go with option b. Despite being a single way, you're committed to taking the ramp by that point (due to the double-white solid lines), making it functionally an extension of the ramp. On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Martin Vonwald wrote: > Hi! > > Some kind of short how-would-you-tag-this-s

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Bill Ricker
Tobias wrote: > > I would choose (a) [One way with lanes=4] and reserve separate ways for > _actual_ physical separation. +1. Agree, different reasoning. Paint is not asphalt. (Maybe this legal separation should be like a turn restriction.) Early notification of coming turn is build into GPS s

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Alberto
Please read carefully: one thing is a legal barrier (e.g. continuous line), one thing is a real barrier (e.g. guard rail, Jersey barrier). A legal barrier can be crossed by a vehicle if necessary, a real barrier not. We don't need to tag any exception for emergency vehicles. The routing software (n

Re: [Tagging] Conditional restrictions accepted – turn restrictions ahead?

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/10/15 Eckhart Wörner : > Hi everybody, > > apparently Conditional Restrictions has become an approved feature, even > though nobody mentioned it here. While I still believe that this is a > sub-optimal solution (and still nobody has passed the test I created earlier > in the discussion, eve

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal – RFC – Dynamic maxspeed

2012-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
I think that misses the point a little. maxspeed=signals/variable is useful, but becomes more useful with maxspeed:maximum=n and maxspeed:minimum=n. North American school zones are probably the best example. maxspeed:maximum=65 mph, maxspeed:minimum=45 mph, maxspeed=signals would be a fairly acc

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 15.10.2012 20:08, Colin Smale wrote: > I don't understand why emergency vehicles are so important in this > discussion. They are often allowed to ignore legal restrictions, but cannot generally ignore physical restrictions, so it's an obvious example where this distinction matters. But before

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Johan C
I think there's some confusion here. Imagic's question was on a motorway example. Three things on this. 1. I've noticed these OSM'ers in favour of option a: Junker, Tobias K., Martin, Simone, Alberto and Eckhart. Could any of these OSM'ers please put an example (older than today [?]) of this tagg

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Svavar Kjarrval
Then it could be easy for them to tailor those requirements to ignore restrictions into the routing software. - Svavar Kjarrval On 15/10/12 18:45, Colin Smale wrote: > Not in the UK or the Netherlands at least. They can do whatever they > see fit in the course of duty, especially with lights and

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Philip Barnes
The law varies from country to country. In the UK, it is legal to cross a solid white line to turn into a side road, or driveway. You can also cross one to overtake a slow moving vehicle, such as a cyclist or tractor. In France, where it is illegal to cross a solid line even to enter a driveway. I

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Eckhart Wörner
Hi Svavar, Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012, 18:26:02 schrieb Svavar Kjarrval: > I think most laws require that even emergency vehicles observe > restrictions like oneway streets. If there are any restrictions which > can be broken in case of emergency vehicles, I think they'd program > their routing s

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Colin Smale
Not in the UK or the Netherlands at least. They can do whatever they see fit in the course of duty, especially with lights and sirens. Of course they can be called to account if anything goes wrong. But a policeman chasing a criminal who turns the wrong way up a one way street is going to follo

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Svavar Kjarrval
I think most laws require that even emergency vehicles observe restrictions like oneway streets. If there are any restrictions which can be broken in case of emergency vehicles, I think they'd program their routing software to them. - Svavar Kjarrval On 15/10/12 18:16, Eckhart Wörner wrote: > Hi

Re: [Tagging] Emergency lane used by PSV at rush time

2012-10-15 Thread John F. Eldredge
"Eckhart Wörner" wrote: > Hi Tobias, > > Am Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2012, 14:40:45 schrieb Tobias Knerr: > > You could combine "Conditional restrictions" and the lanes suffix¹: > > > > lanes=3 > > > > access:lanes = yes | yes | no > > emergency:lanes = | | yes > > psv:condi

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Eckhart Wörner
Hi Colin, Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012, 20:08:01 schrieb Colin Smale: > I don't understand why emergency vehicles are so important in this > discussion. In the first place they have wide-ranging exemptions from > traffic rules, which (let's be honest) we are never going to tag in OSM. > Secondly

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Colin Smale
I don't understand why emergency vehicles are so important in this discussion. In the first place they have wide-ranging exemptions from traffic rules, which (let's be honest) we are never going to tag in OSM. Secondly they are never going to be relying on OSM data (or indeed any normal sat-nav

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Alberto
> > a) One way with lanes=4 > > b) Two separate ways with lanes=2 each > > c) Tell me! a) because distinction between physical and legal barriers is important. Ok in that picture there is no much difference, but as Simone pointed out, for long roads there is a big difference: if any router can't d

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Alberto
>I created a new picture very much based on the old one. Just made the road gray to try to make it more clearer? >http://minkarta.no-ip.org/Lanes_Example_2.svg >Im not sure how to upload it so if anyone thinks this is better please do, otherwise I atleast learned a little what I can do in inkscape

[Tagging] Conditional restrictions accepted – turn restrictions ahead?

2012-10-15 Thread Eckhart Wörner
Hi everybody, apparently Conditional Restrictions has become an approved feature, even though nobody mentioned it here. While I still believe that this is a sub-optimal solution (and still nobody has passed the test I created earlier in the discussion, even though a lot of people tried), I have

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Vonwald (imagic)
Am 15.10.2012 um 17:55 schrieb Markus Lindholm : > But as I'm sure you've noticed there's some divided opinion about this. That's why I asked! Actually I don't think that we see any consensus about this soon. But then I can document at least that there are two variants under discussion. If I c

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 15 October 2012 10:56, Martin Vonwald wrote: > Hi! > > Some kind of short how-would-you-tag-this-survey. Have a look at part > five of this motorway: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Lanes_Example_2.png > > Only part 5 is relevant. Assume there is no physical separation just a > double

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (key:branch)

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/10/15 Martin Koppenhoefer : > There are already some 6800 values for "branch" in the db: > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/branch#values so as proponent of > this tag you should IMHO check these values if they are in accordance > with your proposed intention (and given that there are man

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal – RFC – Dynamic maxspeed

2012-10-15 Thread Eckhart Wörner
Hi Martin, Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012, 16:35:59 schrieb Martin Vonwald: > And I would like to suggest a different tag: instead of > dynamic_maxspeed I would prefer maxspeed:variable for the following > reasons: > * as far as I know those kind of speed limits are usually called > variable speed li

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (key:branch)

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/10/15 Andrew Errington : > Hello everyone, > > It's my responsibility to keep this proposal going. Sorry about the delay, > but I would like to open this proposal for a vote. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:branch > > Since I first put up the proposal I have wanted more and more to

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal – RFC – Dynamic maxspeed

2012-10-15 Thread Janko Mihelić
Maxspeed is always variable, because you have to adjust your speed according to road conditions (snow, fog, traffic). Signals just make that visible, but it is always there, even without the signals. The only thing I would map is the maximal value the sign can show and put it in the maxspeed tag.

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal – RFC – Dynamic maxspeed

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Vonwald
I would like to draw attention again to this proposal as I stumbled across a pretty useless maxspeed=signals again. And I would like to suggest a different tag: instead of dynamic_maxspeed I would prefer maxspeed:variable for the following reasons: * as far as I know those kind of speed limits are

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Tobias Johansson
I created a new picture very much based on the old one. Just made the road gray to try to make it more clearer? http://minkarta.no-ip.org/Lanes_Example_2.svg Im not sure how to upload it so if anyone thinks this is better please do, otherwise I atleast learned a little what I can do in inkscape :

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (key:branch)

2012-10-15 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi. I would suggest to add a few well known examples to the page to make it more clear what it's about at first glance. Currently these are on the talk page, but IMHO they should be on the wiki page itself, too. And: I would like to see a distinction between branch and the adress. Sometimes b

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Simone Saviolo
2012/10/15 Tobias Knerr > On 15.10.2012 10:56, Martin Vonwald wrote: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Lanes_Example_2.png > > > > Only part 5 is relevant. Assume there is no physical separation just a > > double line between the upper and lower two lanes. How would you tag > > this: >

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (key:branch)

2012-10-15 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello everyone, It's my responsibility to keep this proposal going. Sorry about the delay, but I would like to open this proposal for a vote. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:branch Since I first put up the proposal I have wanted more and more to be able to use it. There were two posit

Re: [Tagging] Status of building=stable

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/10/15 Martin Vonwald : > Hi! > > The tag building=stable (resp: building:use=stable) is currently used > to identify a building as a stable. It is used over 500 times which is > IMO quite a lot for a feature that is rarely mapped. I couldn't find > any competing tags for it. Because it was nev

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Tobias Johansson
I use b. Because thats the only way I was/am aware of to tag whats on the ground. A divider. But yes I would like there to be an easy way to tag it in the same way.. I even think there should be a possibility to tag a physical divider in the same way, because some roads with physical dividers real

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/10/15 Tobias Knerr : > I would choose (a) and reserve separate ways for _actual_ physical > separation. > > One practical reason for doing so is that there would simply be no > possibility to distinguish legally separate ways from physically > separate ways if we used the same mapping (splitti

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 15.10.2012 10:56, Martin Vonwald wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Lanes_Example_2.png > > Only part 5 is relevant. Assume there is no physical separation just a > double line between the upper and lower two lanes. How would you tag > this: > a) One way with lanes=4 > b) Two sepa

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Martin Vonwald wrote: > Sorry, you are wrong - I drew the image ;-) But because the image is > not 100% clear I added a note in the related article and now I have to > make sure the note is correct and clear. Your image and note are not really helping. The figur

[Tagging] Status of building=stable

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! The tag building=stable (resp: building:use=stable) is currently used to identify a building as a stable. It is used over 500 times which is IMO quite a lot for a feature that is rarely mapped. I couldn't find any competing tags for it. Because it was never documented I wrote a proposal [1] fo

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Janko Mihelić
One way with lanes=4. If firemen ever want to use osm, i want them to have good data. Janko ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/10/15 Colin Smale : > I am not sure I would interpret the diagram in that way though; the fact > that there are no arrows on the road from part 5 onwards suggests to me that > there is no chance of changing your mind. There is no chance of (legally) changing your mind, because there are doubl

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Volker Schmidt
I would opt for (b) even though I know that this is not the "offcial" way of tagging. The reason: In section (4) the driver can still change lanes, at least on the middle lanes, whereas in section (5) he cannot (legally) change lanes any more between the middle lanes. This example clearly illustr

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Colin Smale
I would choose option b). Even if all four lanes are one piece of carriageway, it is useful for routing directions etc to be able to make a distinction between the left and right parts of the road. Normal mortals are supposed to treat the solid white lines as if they were a brick wall anyway,

[Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! Some kind of short how-would-you-tag-this-survey. Have a look at part five of this motorway: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Lanes_Example_2.png Only part 5 is relevant. Assume there is no physical separation just a double line between the upper and lower two lanes. How would you tag

Re: [Tagging] destination_ref vs. dest_ref vs. destination:ref

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/10/15 Colin Smale : > Slightly OT: Can I put in a plea to continue to populate these tags on the > way as a whole even when the :lanes: data is present? That's the way I do it: destination:lanes before the split/slip-road/link and destination after it. Martin __

Re: [Tagging] destination_ref vs. dest_ref vs. destination:ref

2012-10-15 Thread Colin Smale
I saw the choice between dest_ref and destination_ref and adopted dest_ref for the simple reason that it's shorter. In my mkgmap styles I allow for either, and recently added destination:ref to that list. I'm not particularly bothered which one wins, but I'm always in favour of a bit of standa

[Tagging] destination_ref vs. dest_ref vs. destination:ref

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! Up to now I usually used the tag destination_ref to specify the ref of the road where a link-road is heading, in analogy with the destination key. Now I've seen the key dest_ref in use and also destination:ref. Of course none is documented in the wiki ;-) What should we do? I could write a pr

Re: [Tagging] Emergency lane used by PSV at rush time

2012-10-15 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/10/14 Eric SIBERT : > lanes=* wiki would need to be modified to not count temporary lanes. It > would be more consistent as most of the time only two lanes are available. The last discussion and update of this article was in April. If I remember correct the intention was that lanes that are a