Re: [OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-28 Thread Holger Jeromin
Aun Johnsen Wrote in message: > I see a lot of usage of the generic tag highway=road, which is meant as a > temporary tag and a ?low level entry tag? for beginners. The problem with > this is that because of its ambiguous meaning, it is impossible for data > consumers

Re: [OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
> On Sep 27, 2016, at 14:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Aun Johnsen > wrote: > i.e., highway=road means anything between a small footway to motorway, so a > routing engine might

Re: [OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Aun Johnsen wrote: > i.e., highway=road means anything between a small footway to motorway, so > a routing engine might wrongfully send cars down a set of steps or a hiker > up a motorway > Seems like an actual temporary road tag, not a

Re: [OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-27 Thread Warin
On 27-Sep-16 05:44 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone Il giorno 27 set 2016, alle ore 08:07, Simon Poole > ha scritto: Use of it, IMHO, doesn't really make sense at all any more, particularly if you have imagery available, a

Re: [OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Il giorno 27 set 2016, alle ore 08:07, Simon Poole ha > scritto: > > Use of it, IMHO, doesn't really make sense at all any more, particularly > if you have imagery available, a conservative best guess plus a fixme > tag would seem to be much more useful.

Re: [OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-27 Thread Simon Poole
Aun The use of highway=road goes back to before we had access to aerial imagery. Often you would simply have a raw GPX track without any further meta-data and you might simply wanted to indicate that there might be something there for later survey and there was neither the amount of correct road

[OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-26 Thread Aun Johnsen
I see a lot of usage of the generic tag highway=road, which is meant as a temporary tag and a “low level entry tag” for beginners. The problem with this is that because of its ambiguous meaning, it is impossible for data consumers to process this correctly. i.e., highway=road means anything