Re: [Tagging] decide on a meaning for what is not documented [way: Expressway=yes/no versus new tags "dual_carriageway=yes/no", "limited_access=", "grade_separated"=?]

2020-02-20 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
20 Feb 2020, 13:02 by joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com: > But > perhaps we will decided that database users should interpret the > geometry and name=/ref= tags of parallel highway ways to add this > information in post-processing. Does anyone know if that is feasible? > AFAIK no, I tried to do this

Re: [Tagging] decide on a meaning for what is not documented [way: Expressway=yes/no versus new tags "dual_carriageway=yes/no", "limited_access=", "grade_separated"=?]

2020-02-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Do., 20. Feb. 2020 um 13:47 Uhr schrieb Joseph Eisenberg < joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>: > Often it looks similar to the current highway=trunk rendering at in > the German map style used at openstreetmap.de - and I believe > "highway=trunk" is always for dual-carriageway "expressways" there. >

Re: [Tagging] decide on a meaning for what is not documented [way: Expressway=yes/no versus new tags "dual_carriageway=yes/no", "limited_access=", "grade_separated"=?]

2020-02-20 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
> Why would it matter to someone that there is another highway going into the > opposite direction of where they want to go, that someone considers to be > part of the "same road"? Besides statistical purposes, it could be used for rendering at mid zoom levels. Many highway maps in the United

Re: [Tagging] decide on a meaning for what is not documented [way: Expressway=yes/no versus new tags "dual_carriageway=yes/no", "limited_access=", "grade_separated"=?]

2020-02-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Do., 20. Feb. 2020 um 13:07 Uhr schrieb Joseph Eisenberg < joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>: > > If people are interested in using it, I might make a proposal. But > perhaps we will decided that database users should interpret the > geometry and name=/ref= tags of parallel highway ways to add this

Re: [Tagging] decide on a meaning for what is not documented [way: Expressway=yes/no versus new tags "dual_carriageway=yes/no", "limited_access=", "grade_separated"=?]

2020-02-20 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
Taginfo shows that the tag has been used in just a few places (mostly one city in Poland) so it's not very well established, in spite of several thousand uses: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/dual_carriageway#map There are a couple similar tags that are a little less common: *

Re: [Tagging] decide on a meaning for what is not documented [way: Expressway=yes/no versus new tags "dual_carriageway=yes/no", "limited_access=", "grade_separated"=?]

2020-02-20 Thread marc marc
Hello, Le 20.02.20 à 07:41, Joseph Eisenberg a écrit : > I've created a page for Key:dual_carriageway based on existing usage > in the database: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:dual_carriageway how did you proceed? is the tag added by only one contributor to whom you asked the question