Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:49:18 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 4/3/2011 9:38 AM, Phil! Gold wrote: > > * Ed Hillsman > > [2011-04-02 22:26 -0400]: > >> Would it work to add a tag "associated_street" and then simply list the > >> name of the street? For example, highway=footway, > >> associated_s

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/3/2011 9:38 AM, Phil! Gold wrote: * Ed Hillsman [2011-04-02 22:26 -0400]: Would it work to add a tag "associated_street" and then simply list the name of the street? For example, highway=footway, associated_street="East Fowler Avenue". This might not be a bad idea. It makes the associat

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread Phil! Gold
* Ed Hillsman [2011-04-02 22:26 -0400]: > With regard to routing, sidewalks on college campuses, in parks, and > in cemeteries may be interior to a large area bounded by streets, > and as a result some may not have an associated street to use for a > name. I don't think those would qualify as "si

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi. There are two things I would like to make additions to. 1) separate or tag-scheme (the long discussion in general): I'm one of the people who think, both should be used on a case-by-case-basis. Working on a map- and routing-portal for blind people (therefore most likely a special case of pe

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread David Paleino
Hello Ed, On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 22:26:22 -0400, Ed Hillsman wrote: > The discussion of the sidewalk issue seems to have stopped. I added > some comments in the discussion section of the wiki last week, but > there have been no further comments there or here in nearly a week. I saw your comments

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-02 Thread Ed Hillsman
The discussion of the sidewalk issue seems to have stopped. I added some comments in the discussion section of the wiki last week, but there have been no further comments there or here in nearly a week. I think each of the proposals (sidewalks as separate ways, and sidewalks as attributes o

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/25 Josh Doe : > I agree, it is confusing. I've used the separate way method quite > extensively in a suburban (subdivision) area. Perhaps I could create > some illustrations, though since I'm not much of an artist it will > probably be just screenshots. In the meantime you can see my area >

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:06:06 +0100, Jo wrote: > We also need to add cycleways to associatedStreet relations then and bus > stops and their platforms and parking lanes. Ok, I understand it might make sense. A role "cycleway" for cycleways? But that's out of scope for this proposal. For bus stops/

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:06:06 +0100, Jo wrote: > We also need to add cycleways to associatedStreet relations then and bus > stops and their platforms and parking lanes. Why? -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.n

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Jo
We also need to add cycleways to associatedStreet relations then and bus stops and their platforms and parking lanes. What roles do we assign for those? Polyglot 2011/3/25 David Paleino > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:07:12 +, SomeoneElse wrote: > > > What I don't yet understand is the workflow as

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:07:12 +, SomeoneElse wrote: > What I don't yet understand is the workflow associated with the > "Sidewalk_as_separate_way" proposal. Through the window I can see a > road which has a (currently unmapped) footpath/sidewalk along both sides > for part of its length and

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread SomeoneElse
On 25/03/2011 15:32, Josh Doe wrote: In the meantime you can see my area here: http://osm.org/go/ZZcEbGicI- Thanks - I'll have a look at that. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Josh Doe
I agree, it is confusing. I've used the separate way method quite extensively in a suburban (subdivision) area. Perhaps I could create some illustrations, though since I'm not much of an artist it will probably be just screenshots. In the meantime you can see my area here: http://osm.org/go/ZZcEbGi

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread SomeoneElse
Er - I'm confused. We've now got: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/sloped_curb http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/kerb

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Josh Doe
I would encourage everyone interested in this to review the proposal as I've amended it. I've made it clear that the suggestion to use relations with sidewalks is a related, but separate issue. The proposal now solely consists of adding the footway=sidewalk and footway=crossing tags. Further propo

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/25 Richard Fairhurst : > David Paleino wrote: > Potlatch 2 _already_ has excellent relation support. > However: >> My proposal doesn't use anything special to be implemented in editors. > That's not the point. Well, somehow it is. He has suggested to use the associatedStreet -type of relat

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Josh Doe
I think it would be useful to have a JOSM plugin which works more generically, such as working with the associatedStreet or proposed street relation to not only associate sidewalks with streets, but everything else encompassed by those relations. It could have sets of rules which would enable autom

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:38:18 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fairhurst wrote: > [..] > Anyone can map anything in Potlatch, or JOSM, or Merkaartor, or their own > favourite editor, by creating the primitives manually, and adding tags, > using the standard UI. Of course they can. > > Yet this isn't always a

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread john
I think he was trying to distinguish between footways (which generally have their own names) and sidewalks (which generally don't have their own names). ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways >From :mailto:emac...@gmail.

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Simone Saviolo
2011/3/25 Richard Fairhurst > David Paleino wrote: > > No, it's up to YOU, as a developer, to support basic OSM things. > > "Relations" are an OSM primitive, and to be considered the official > > editor, since you're being hosted on osm.org, you MUST implement them. > > That's IMHO, obviously. >

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Simone Saviolo
2011/3/25 David Paleino > No, it's up to YOU, as a developer, to support basic OSM things. > "Relations" are an OSM primitive, and to be considered the official editor, > since you're being hosted on osm.org, you MUST implement them. That's > IMHO, > obviously. I remember the mob yelling the l

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Paleino wrote: > No, it's up to YOU, as a developer, to support basic OSM things. > "Relations" are an OSM primitive, and to be considered the official > editor, since you're being hosted on osm.org, you MUST implement them. > That's IMHO, obviously. It's IYHO but your O would be better if

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:18:07 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fairhurst wrote: > David Paleino wrote: > > Why, oh why, this seems so out-of-context to me? > > I think I already gave a solution: if you want to do it simple, use > > sidewalk=*. > > If you want to add more details, follow my proposal. > > I'm n

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Josh Doe
I've made some significant edits to the proposal, to try and clarify some things and boil the proposal down to the basics. I removed a significant portion of David's text, however I think much of it is valuable, and so would encourage him to pull it out from the prior revision and put it on the ta

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Paleino wrote: > Why, oh why, this seems so out-of-context to me? > I think I already gave a solution: if you want to do it simple, use > sidewalk=*. > If you want to add more details, follow my proposal. I'm not remotely interested in the merits or otherwise of your proposal. I don't have t

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:57:10 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fairhurst wrote: > David Paleino wrote: > > Come on, it's like any other relation. If potlatch can't support *ANY* > > kind of relation editing, it's not my fault. It's a bug. I don't use > > Potlatch, so I can't tell how advanced his support for

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Paleino wrote: > Come on, it's like any other relation. If potlatch can't support *ANY* > kind of relation editing, it's not my fault. It's a bug. I don't use > Potlatch, so I can't tell how advanced his support for relations is. Not good enough. It is incumbent on you, as someone proposi

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:21:51 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > You're proposing a new relation type, I'm not. I'm proposing to use associatedStreet, which is well-established. My preference for "street" is another story. *Entirely*. > a set of associated tags, etc. in support of the sidewalk data

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:37 AM, David Paleino wrote: >> One can take exactly the opposite stance, which is that in order to >> help the blind, we should make it as easy as possible to map things >> that they care about. Therefore a sidewalk=yes tag would be the >> fastest way to get the maximum

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Tobias Knerr
Serge Wroclawski wrote: > With sidewalks as a separate way, you are now stuck with two unoptimal > situations: > > a) The sidewalks have no road-associated data [...] > b) There is a relation c) There is another method to associate the sidewalk with the highway. For example, people (especially o

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:42:37 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 3/25/2011 4:37 AM, David Paleino wrote: > > Routing, not rendering. We don't care about rendering, do you? > > We certainly care about rendering. What we perhaps shouldn't care about > is how a specific renderer handles tags. > > I

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/25/2011 4:37 AM, David Paleino wrote: Routing, not rendering. We don't care about rendering, do you? We certainly care about rendering. What we perhaps shouldn't care about is how a specific renderer handles tags. I personally don't care much about routing. I'm an old-fashioned guy who p

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
No need to CC me, thanks. On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:00:34 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:15 PM, David Paleino > wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > as promised, I came back with an "official" proposal. > > > >  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:15 PM, David Paleino wrote: > Hello everybody, > as promised, I came back with an "official" proposal. > >  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way "In particular, for blind people, it's important to have precise information when wal

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:10:36 +, Craig Wallace wrote: > On 24/03/2011 20:15, David Paleino wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > as promised, I came back with an "official" proposal. > > > > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way > > > > I tried to summa

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:59:12 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:53:12 -0400, Josh Doe wrote: > > > [..] Like I've said on the talk page, I believe this and the other sidewalk > > proposal can coexist, although I prefer your proposed scheme. > > I think that too; however, I beli

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread Craig Wallace
On 24/03/2011 20:15, David Paleino wrote: Hello everybody, as promised, I came back with an "official" proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way I tried to summarize what my ideas are, and why I don't believe that tagging the main road is any goo

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:53:12 -0400, Josh Doe wrote: > [..] Like I've said on the talk page, I believe this and the other sidewalk > proposal can coexist, although I prefer your proposed scheme. I think that too; however, I believe the other proposal could be useful for "temporary tagging", much l

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread Josh Doe
David, thanks for putting this up. Like I've said on the talk page, I believe this and the other sidewalk proposal can coexist, although I prefer your proposed scheme. Regards, -Josh On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:15 PM, David Paleino wrote: > Hello everybody, > as promised, I came back with an "offi

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread David Paleino
Hello everybody, as promised, I came back with an "official" proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way I tried to summarize what my ideas are, and why I don't believe that tagging the main road is any good. To summarize here: to tag a sidewalk: *