Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-30 Thread bulwersator
Tons of smaller polygons, city-sized megamultipolygons seems to sound like a bad idea (and with small ones result gets drawbacks of both idea). On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:18:53 -0800 cracklinrainlt;cra_klinr...@gmx.degt; wrote The next thing is: How will you applicate such a tagging?

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/11/30 bulwersator bulwersa...@zoho.com Tons of smaller polygons, city-sized megamultipolygons seems to sound like a bad idea (and with small ones result gets drawbacks of both idea). +1, there is no real disadvantage in using lots of small polygons, but there are a lot of advantages in

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com writes: 2013/11/17 The definition given for the landuse-polygon seems too restrictive, I'd ditch the second part are constructed up to a boundary or barrier separating this land from private property. (Because there doesn't have to be private

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-29 Thread Tod Fitch
On Nov 29, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com writes: 2013/11/17 The definition given for the landuse-polygon seems too restrictive, I'd ditch the second part are constructed up to a boundary or barrier separating this land from private

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-29 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 29.11.2013 um 16:31 schrieb Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com: Typical in the US is that the right of way (ROW) is the land on which a carriage way is built. That land area is, if possible, quite a bit wider than the traveled way and will include the land used for shoulders, drainage

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-29 Thread Dave Swarthout
The concept of landuse=highway makes sense for me as well, especially when describing freeways and their interchanges or major highways. In most of the U.S. there is a fixed distance from the centerline of a highway on either side that belongs to the governing administrative body, be it city, town

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-29 Thread Greg Troxel
cracklinrain cra_klinr...@gmx.de writes: German roads are built similar. But usually this is not dependent on stuff like property. Usually land owners are forced to fit onto the local prescriptions. So maybe a ditch is part of the property of a private person, but part of the street.

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-18 Thread bulwersator
Good idea, I removed it. It is special case, there are situations where next landuse will not be a private property. On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 05:53:44 -0800 Martin Koppenhoefer lt;dieterdre...@gmail.comgt; wrote 2013/11/17 Tobias Knerr lt;o...@tobias-knerr.degt; In my opinion, the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-17 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 16.11.2013 19:34, bulwersator wrote: To identify an area of land on which a highway together with any associated footways and verges are constructed up to a boundary or barrier separating this land from private property. - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/highway In my

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/11/17 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de In my opinion, the actual area covered by the road surface (i.e. area:highway) is a lot more useful and should take priority when we map areas for roads. I agree, but there is already an established tag for it (area:highway). The definition

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse=highway

2013-11-16 Thread bulwersator
To identify an area of land on which a highway together with any associated footways and verges are constructed up to a boundary or barrier separating this land from private property. - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/highway It was proposed in 2009 and then proposal died