Re: [Tagging] question: best practices for micromapping ped areas and footpaths?

2015-01-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-12-30 11:50 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com: make the entire area highway=pedestrian and have the building=roof are on a layer above it? I would go for this option. +1, I'd normally use a multipolygon relation to represent the roof if it has the same extent as the

Re: [Tagging] question: best practices for micromapping ped areas and footpaths?

2014-12-31 Thread Greg Troxel
johnw jo...@mac.com writes: 1) there are large open concrete areas for pedestrians, but there are also covered walkways through them as well. http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/36.38380/139.07281 I mapped the open sections as highway=pedestrian+area=yes, while I traced the

Re: [Tagging] question: best practices for micromapping ped areas and footpaths?

2014-12-30 Thread johnw
On Dec 30, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:27 AM, johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com wrote: I mapped the open sections as highway=pedestrian+area=yes, while I traced the covered walkways (that connect the bus shelters) and tagged

Re: [Tagging] question: best practices for micromapping ped areas and footpaths?

2014-12-30 Thread Hubert
Hallo. Maybe covered=yes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:covered is what you are looking for? Yours Hubert Am 30. Dezember 2014 05:27:43 MEZ, schrieb johnw jo...@mac.com: I'm micromapping some public areas, in this case train stations. two questions: 1) there are large open concrete

Re: [Tagging] question: best practices for micromapping ped areas and footpaths?

2014-12-30 Thread Marc Gemis
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:40 AM, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote: make the entire area highway=pedestrian and have the building=roof are on a layer above it? I would go for this option. You could go for covered=xxx as well, as Hubert indicated BTW, highway=pedestrian+area=yes does not play nice

Re: [Tagging] question: best practices for micromapping ped areas and footpaths?

2014-12-30 Thread Janko Mihelić
2014-12-30 9:40 GMT+01:00 johnw jo...@mac.com: Ahh, I see - that makes sense. so, I should leave the pedestrain areas as they are, and add an additional area for the roof (so I would have two areas - one the footpath and the other a roof with the adjacent areas as pedestrian) or make

Re: [Tagging] question: best practices for micromapping ped areas and footpaths?

2014-12-30 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 30 December 2014 at 11:14, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: This is deliberate, and was explained in a mail in June: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-June/018043.html highway=pedestrian + area=yes will always be over everything else. There's nothing you can do

[Tagging] question: best practices for micromapping ped areas and footpaths?

2014-12-29 Thread johnw
I'm micromapping some public areas, in this case train stations. two questions: 1) there are large open concrete areas for pedestrians, but there are also covered walkways through them as well. http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/36.38380/139.07281 I mapped the open sections as

Re: [Tagging] question: best practices for micromapping ped areas and footpaths?

2014-12-29 Thread Marc Gemis
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:27 AM, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote: I mapped the open sections as highway=pedestrian+area=yes, while I traced the covered walkways (that connect the bus shelters) and tagged it as building=roof highway=footway For me this means that you walk on the roof. You should