Re: [OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

2019-07-03 Thread Marc Gemis
I agree that in this case I would tolerate it, but is it still allowed to turn from East Mineral avenue to the North-South, unclassified highway? If not, one should add turn restrictions. regards m On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:11 PM Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > On 03.07.2019 22:03, Jack Armstrong Dance

Re: [OSM-talk] Reordering and rewriting Good Practice wiki page

2019-07-03 Thread Warin
On the order of things. Best to tell them what to do first. This provides some motivation. Leave 'what not to do' for last, these tend to turn people away. So I would do: 1 One feature, one OSM element 2 Good changeset comments (+Keep the history) 3 Editing Standards: (Alig

Re: [OSM-talk] Reordering and rewriting Good Practice wiki page

2019-07-03 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
As mentioned, I plan to significantly shorten the "Keep the history" section, with a link to the longer version at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Keep_the_history instead. I would probably support shortening the page even further, but I've already had several edits reverted by other users who

Re: [OSM-talk] Reordering and rewriting Good Practice wiki page

2019-07-03 Thread Yves
Hmm... I would be all in favor of extending the See also... section and shorten drastically the page to keep it simple. Some of the good practices there are second order, don't you think? Keeping history compared to Tag for the renderer, for example. Yves Le 4 juillet 2019 05:53:23 GMT+02:00, Jo

[OSM-talk] Reordering and rewriting Good Practice wiki page

2019-07-03 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
I've reordered and reworded several sections of the Good practice page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice The page had grown over the years from 6 or 7 initial sections: (First verion of page in 2008 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Good_practice&oldid=86242) 1) Do

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

2019-07-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Context is important. If it's being controlled as a separate way (like an angled deceleration or acceleration lane, or a flush median porkchop, or the gore on a median bullnose), that's a good candidate for placement=transition. Keep in mind this gets super messy if you dont take context and inte

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

2019-07-03 Thread Tom Pfeifer
On 03.07.2019 22:03, Jack Armstrong Dancer--- via talk wrote: I've always had the impression we should not create separate traffic lanes unless "traffic flows are physically separated by a barrier (e.g., grass, concrete, steel), which prevents movements between said flows." Yes, I agree in gen

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

2019-07-03 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
I would consider such mapping as linked as incorrect and delete this extra ways on encounteringĀ  them in my normal mapping. Is there any reason to handle this situation in other way? Maybe there are some physical barriers (for example concrete blocks) installed there? 3 Jul 2019, 22:03 by talk@

[OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

2019-07-03 Thread Jack Armstrong Dancer--- via talk
I've always had the impression we should not create separate traffic lanes unlessĀ "traffic flows are physically separated by a barrier (e.g., grass, concrete, steel), which prevents movements between said flows."In other words, paint is not a barrier. Should we create highway links based solely on