Re: [OSM-talk] street traits

2008-05-12 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey Martin wrote: | Here is my list of traits. | [snip] | pavement Pavement is a dangerous word because in the UK it means sidewalk (footpath), and in the USA it means the road surface. My Mum failed her USA driving theory test because she didn't

Re: [OSM-talk] street traits

2008-05-12 Thread Matt Williams
On Friday 09 May 2008 21:57:51 OJ W wrote: This page *tries* to explain the differences: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Highway I suppose my summary would be something like: Motorway: motor vehicles only, always dual-carriageway, always has good level of emergency features,

[OSM-talk] street traits

2008-05-09 Thread Jeffrey Martin
I was thinking about classifying roads in Korea. What criteria am I using when I put a road in a classification? I'm starting to think that my support of the current use of the highway tag was misguided. Maybe we should be more specific. I know some people say they don't want to be stringing

Re: [OSM-talk] street traits

2008-05-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Jeffrey Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A name for each kind of road in a person's country could be set up as an editor feature. I select mountain road 2 from my list and it fills in the number of lanes, lane size, shoulder size, etc. for me. Strangly enough,

Re: [OSM-talk] street traits

2008-05-09 Thread Jeffrey Martin
Here is my list of traits. Lane width. Number of lanes in each direction. Number of bidirectional lanes not controlled by signals. Number of bidirectional lanes controlled by signals. size of shoulder Center turn lane. In lane parking. Separate parallel parking. side of street Separate diagonal

Re: [OSM-talk] street traits

2008-05-09 Thread OJ W
This page *tries* to explain the differences: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Highway I suppose my summary would be something like: Motorway: motor vehicles only, always dual-carriageway, always has good level of emergency features, junctions are always grade-separated with