This is a part of landuse that is missing on Openstreetmap. There is a term
used for this in road planning. It is called a “road reserve” which includes
all parts of the road components. The surfaced carriageways, central
reservations, hard and soft shoulders, sidewalks (pavements), buffer
Thoughts on the subject
For a route to be a round trip on public transport it would be required that
only one ticket purchase would be necessary to take you full circle, and this
would include a tourist bus that allows you to get off and back on again along
the route until you get back to
The real easy way to understand culverts and fords for OpenStreetMap is about
the layers they are on and this dictates the nodes they use.
For a ford the stream/river is at the same level as the road (effectively
layer=0) and therefore they are able to share a node.
Because a culvert
When I was maintaining survey plans the landuse=highway would cover the
extent of the area owned and maintained by the highways agency and not just
the highway itself. This area would include the highways, the soft or hard
shoulders, sidewalks (pavements), roundabouts and islands, central
Hi all,
I notice the same trend happening with nearly all discussions.
Instead of being able to consistently look at and discuss these key features as
a world-wide general term the discussion tends to become mired in precise local
situations.
The discussion was originally about the key
My personal opinion is that this is getting totally out of hand.
Shops pay a lot of money to advertise their wares and you are stepping in
and trying to do commercial marketing for free.
Not only that but who is going to maintain this information? Shops rotate
their stocks on a seasonal basis.
Thank you Gerd,
The incorrect tagging that you have picked up is by an inexperienced mapper
that worked on a square in the tasking manager but has not marked that square
as completed yet so no validation has taken place. An even more extensive error
that has been done by that same mapper is to
I am quite in favour of people coming forward to discuss the possibility of
improving the iD Editor if it is causing problems.
I object to the continuous use of naming new mappers as a problem. I will
defend the reason for iD preventing new mappers from being given the option
of inadvertently
Hi Pavel,
First let me say that I am totally against the idea of “silly tags” such as
works_as_highway=primary. This just indicates a lack of understanding of the
real situation.
I have looked at your problem and understand what you are seeing. I will give
you examples in the Czech Republic as
