Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-13 Thread Jochen Topf
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:58:36PM +0200, Lambert Carsten wrote: That often leads to inconsistencies, but inconsistent is not necessarily bad. Exactly, no need to 'force' junctions to have connecting roads on the same layer. If you really believe in the 'middle of the junction theory' let

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-13 Thread Lambert Carsten
On Thursday 13 August 2009 00:31:23 Lauri Kytömaa wrote: Lambert Carsten wrote: sense. Even though the smaller road ends at the edge of the larger road not the middle of the road. Inside the crossing area the roads overlap, neither ends there - you're on both roads. But you're not on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-12 Thread Lambert Carsten
Hi Jochen, Could you please comment on this thread: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-July/039217.html http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-July/039259.html http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-August/039847.html since you created the 'T-junction'

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-12 Thread Jochen Topf
. Jochen On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:27:17AM +0200, Lambert Carsten wrote: From: Lambert Carsten lhc@solcon.nl To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:27:17 +0200 Cc: Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org Hi Jochen, Could you please comment

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-12 Thread Lambert Carsten
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 11:59:36 Jochen Topf wrote: Hi! Thanks for your quick input. I have amended the bridge and tunnel pages with the reason for those rules: Rendering breaks if you have different layers on junction nodes. This is tagging for the renderer which I thought was generally

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-12 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/8/12 Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org: in real life bridges don't start in the *middle* of junctions so there *is* a little bit of non-bridge roads between the junction and the bridge. +1 For canals in Dutch cities, I'd consider not tagging the roads special but giving the canals a

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-12 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/12 Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org: in real life bridges don't start in the *middle* of junctions so there *is* a little bit of non-bridge roads between the junction and the bridge. +1 That's a stange

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-12 Thread Lambert Carsten
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 20:36:54 Jochen Topf wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:18:03PM +0200, Pieren wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/12 Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org: in real life bridges don't start in the *middle*

[OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-12 Thread Lauri Kytömaa
Lambert Carsten wrote: sense. Even though the smaller road ends at the edge of the larger road not the middle of the road. Inside the crossing area the roads overlap, neither ends there - you're on both roads. But you're not on the bridge that starts only several meters away - or inches away if

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-12 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/8/12 Lambert Carsten lhc@solcon.nl: There *is* nothing. It is all an abstraction and *this* abstraction is not helpfull or get us anywhere. As I stated before a crossing between a big road and a (much) smaller road  does not either get little bits of road inserted in the smaller road

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-11 Thread Lambert Carsten
On Saturday 08 August 2009 14:11:21 Marc Schütz wrote: no, it's not, it's about relative order in the db. Fair enough. In other words, at any node which is a junction of way segments with different layers (whether the segments are part of the same way or different ways), the physical

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-08 Thread Richard Mann
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: In other words, at any node which is a junction of way segments with different layers (whether the segments are part of the same way or different ways), the physical implication is that the slope of the way changes in

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-08 Thread Marc Schütz
no, it's not, it's about relative order in the db. Fair enough. In other words, at any node which is a junction of way segments with different layers (whether the segments are part of the same way or different ways), the physical implication is that the slope of the way changes in the close

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-07 Thread Lambert Carsten
On Friday 31 July 2009 17:25:19 Richard Mann wrote: I saw some strange rendering effects when a side road was straight onto a bridge. The bridge was layer=1, so the side road was rendered on top of the main road. That's why all the ways approaching a junction should be on the same layer. You

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-07 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Lambert Carstenlhc@solcon.nl wrote: In any case, PLEASE let us get rid of this 'rule' that a T-junction has to be on the same layer. +1 Pieren ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-07 Thread Marc Schütz
On Friday 31 July 2009 17:25:19 Richard Mann wrote: I saw some strange rendering effects when a side road was straight onto a bridge. The bridge was layer=1, so the side road was rendered on top of the main road. That's why all the ways approaching a junction should be on the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Mann
Keepright appears to think that bridges without a layer tag imply layer=1. Whereas I'd assumed in my tagging that layer=0 unless stated. Is this to match what renderers do? I would rather they didn't, because making the waterways layer=-1 seems to work most of the time, and I'd prefer to avoid

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-07 Thread Lambert Carsten
On Friday 07 August 2009 12:29:09 Marc Schütz wrote: On Friday 31 July 2009 17:25:19 Richard Mann wrote: I saw some strange rendering effects when a side road was straight onto a bridge. The bridge was layer=1, so the side road was rendered on top of the main road. That's

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/8/8 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Forget about the renderer for a second. IMHO we should tag what is on the ground. As the wiki says, layer is used to mark if a way/node/area is above or under another one, where is above or under clearly refers to the physical reality. It's not

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-07 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/8 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Forget about the renderer for a second. IMHO we should tag what is on the ground. As the wiki says, layer is used to mark if a way/node/area is above or under another

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-31 Thread Harald Kleiner
Hi! to make my question more precise, please have a look at this tunnel that crosses a railway track (the railway is a subway that runs at ground level): http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=48.1325961lon=16.3109488zoom=19way=29205957 The tunnel tag implies layer=-1 and that leads to a

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-31 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Harald Kleinere9625...@gmx.at wrote: Do you think, this tunnel is OK the way it is or should someone add a small piece of way on layer 0 at the eastern end next to the T-junction to avoid a T-junction of different layers? What is the situation at that

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-31 Thread OJ W
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Harald Kleinere9625...@gmx.at wrote: Hi! to make my question more precise, please have a look at this tunnel that crosses a railway track (the railway is a subway that runs at ground level):

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-31 Thread Marc Schütz
to make my question more precise, please have a look at this tunnel that crosses a railway track (the railway is a subway that runs at ground level): http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=48.1325961lon=16.3109488zoom=19way=29205957 The tunnel tag implies layer=-1 No, it doesn't. and

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Mann
I saw some strange rendering effects when a side road was straight onto a bridge. The bridge was layer=1, so the side road was rendered on top of the main road. That's why all the ways approaching a junction should be on the same layer. You can either achieve this by inserting a short way between

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-30 Thread Marc Schütz
I want to talk about this page on the wiki describing how to map tunnels correctly: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tunnel#How_to_Map Especially the last paragraph causes headaches to me: If the tunnel ends in a junction you'll need a small un-tunneled way between the end of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/7/30 Marc Schütz schue...@gmx.net: this might be a logical topic: we are mapping the center of the road. The tunnel can not end at the center of the crossing road, because this road itself is not a tunnel. (you will have at least half the width of the crossing road untunneled). No, IMO

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-30 Thread Marc Schütz
this might be a logical topic: we are mapping the center of the road. The tunnel can not end at the center of the crossing road, because this road itself is not a tunnel. (you will have at least half the width of the crossing road untunneled). No, IMO we're mapping the entire road, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/7/30 Marc Schütz schue...@gmx.net: Maybe not in all cases, but have a look at this example: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=degeocode=q=bayreuthsll=37.0625,-95.677068sspn=59.467068,107.138672ie=UTF8ll=49.935936,11.646567spn=0.000375,0.000817t=kz=21 It'd be hard to argue that

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/7/29 Harald Kleiner e9625...@gmx.at: Hi! I want to talk about this page on the wiki describing how to map tunnels correctly: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tunnel#How_to_Map Especially the last paragraph causes headaches to me: If the tunnel ends in a junction you'll need a small