Re: [talk-au] Deletion of informal paths by NSW NPWS

> The first crux as I see it is that the OSM community doesn't listen. It is unable to hear values other than some abstract academic notion of map purity. Adam, with respect, I cannot agree with this evaluation of this discussion. We have spent real time discussing how to represent the NPWS

Re: [talk-au] Deletion of informal paths by NSW NPWS

a note=* tag to >> >> describe the reason for the access tag >> >> (Possibly disused:highway=* as an alternative - this will prevent it >> >> appearing on the map. Unfortunately we don?t have a new survey of this >> >> area. The NPWS ranger doesn?t appear

Re: [talk-au] Deletion of informal paths by NSW NPWS

(I'm a little late to this thread, but wanted to add my two cents.) I agree with Tom's take and have commented below: On Mon, 25 Sept 2023, 8:26 am Tom Brennan, wrote: > Tricky one. > > I have sympathy for Land Managers. There can be many reasons why they > don't want people visiting a place,

Re: [talk-au] Possible mechanical edit of address names

Doing small targeted mechanical edits like this sounds like a good workflow to me. My recommendation would be to structure the program in two steps: 1. The first script calculates all of the changes that it wants to make, and writes it to CSV, with all of the details required for step 2. 2. The

Re: [talk-au] Routing problem near Albany, WA

The intersection in question is quite new, so I am not surprised that there are cache issues as you guys have identified. Each routing engine will ingest new OSM data on its own schedule. One thing that I noticed with the spurious "at the fork, turn right onto Albany Hwy" instructions in the

Re: [talk-au] Dual naming in NSW

I agree that in places where a joint name is in use, that should be documented as `name=Booraghee / Bradleys Head`as. From a data perspective, I think it is also useful to know that the english called it (in english spelling) `name:en=Bradleys Head` and the locals called it (in local romanised

Re: [talk-au] Publishing data as vector tiles/something else

I recently came across Tippecanoe, which is a tool that outputs "Mapbox Vector Tile Specification" tiles from other formats, with a focus on large datasets and sensible level-of-detail handling. I haven't used it myself, but it looks like it might be useful here. Maybe converting your data to

Re: [talk-au] Tagging Culverts on Roads

Hi All, I don't have any skin in the game of waterways or infrastructure ids, but I would like to offer my perspective as a software developer working with road networks in osm2streets . First of all, these proprietary S*tructure Numbers* are not a

Re: [talk-au] Changing building levels elevator to description elevator shell

> > building:levels=2 > > That would mean it only is on building level 2.. and it would not go from > another building level. > That's not right, `building:levels` does describes the number of levels that a building has: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:levels You're thinking of