Re: [Tagging] As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread Janko Mihelić
I'm not entirely sure I understood your question, but you shouldn't map non-ways. Routers could be developed that route through non-ways, if there is no cliff or something else in the way. A router could route along the contour lines, to make the hike through forest easier. But if there is no

Re: [Tagging] As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/2/22 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com I'm not entirely sure I understood your question, but you shouldn't map non-ways. Routers could be developed that route through non-ways, if there is no cliff or something else in the way. A router could route along the contour lines, to make the hike

Re: [Tagging] As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread Erik Johansson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/22 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com I'm not entirely sure I understood your question, but you shouldn't map non-ways. Routers could be developed that route through non-ways, if there is no cliff or

[Tagging] Re : As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread yve...@gmail.com
Could be a way with no tags member of a route relation. - Reply message - De : Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com Pour : Tag discussion, strategy and related tools tagging@openstreetmap.org Objet : [Tagging] As the crow flies Date : ven., févr. 22, 2013 12:43 On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:34

Re: [Tagging] As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote: I feel dirty every time I do that, they are usually tagged as surface=mud.. :-) Basically I map them if there really is a path there and it seems usefull, even though it's clearly not a designated path. There

Re: [Tagging] Re : As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread Volker Schmidt
It happens often on mountain hiking routes. You have a signpost with the red-white sign of the Alpine Club that indicates the direction that you have to take across a meadow, for example. On the other side you have to find a corresponding sign. In between there may not be any visible path. In that

Re: [Tagging] Re : As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com wrote: It happens often on mountain hiking routes. You have a signpost with the red-white sign of the Alpine Club that indicates the direction that you have to take across a meadow, for example. On the other side you have to

Re: [Tagging] Re : As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread Ronnie Soak
This also doesn't differ very much from the practice used for pedestrian areas in cities. Usually the area/plaza/village square will be drawn as an area, but additionally some crossing highway=pedestrian ways are added to guide the router straight across instead of only along the edges. I'm not

Re: [Tagging] As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread John F. Eldredge
Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote: I feel dirty every time I do that, they are usually tagged as surface=mud.. :-) Basically I map them if there really is a path there and it seems usefull, even though it's

[Tagging] source:maxspeed vs. maxspeed:type

2013-02-22 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! Recently the use of the key maxspeed:type was documented in the wiki (see [1] and [2]). It seems to be used in the UK for the same purpose as source:maxspeed. I quote: In the UK the general practice is to use the maxspeed:type tag as the source:*=* should be for how the data was collected,

Re: [Tagging] As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:29 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: Footpath, not footpad. A footpad is a type of robber. If I saw a path marked as highway=footpad, it would suggest that the path is through a high-crime area, and you are likely to be mugged. Hmm, it must be a

Re: [Tagging] As the crow flies

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi Jo, On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: pad is Dutch for path. (It also means toad in Dutch, but that is, of course, unrelated) In English I only knew pad as something to jot on. Like a notepad. Maybe you should add those other meanings to Wiktionary.org, Good