Proposal Page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/picnic_table
This is proposal for tagging picnic tables, as amenity=bench and
tourism=picnic_site aren't adequate enough to label these amenities correctly.
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Proposal Page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:restriction%3Dschool_zone
To mark school zones, where the maxspeed varies by time of day, day of week and
time of year.
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--- On Tue, 23/6/09, Thorir Jonsson thorir...@gmail.com wrote:
Hardy to Jaunty. Whenever I try to download images
from Yahoo! they
appear distorted and torn into strips (screenshot here:
http://tinypic.com/r/295zpfa/5).
I had no end of problems until I compiled and used the webkit version
--- On Wed, 24/6/09, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
Please don't do that! If you're not sure what category
something comes
under, it's really hard to find if it is on a page
organised by
category. If I want a windmill, say, I can search for
windmill as things
stand without
--- On Wed, 24/6/09, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
When the wiki pages are well structured (and named), you
can use the
search function, type windmill and you find the right
page.
I simply cannot imagine how far the Map Features page will
be extended
to list all possible amenities,
I posted to the forums, but didn't get any response and it was suggested I post
here to inform people what's happening.
I have written a speedometer app for Android handsets that uses the GPS
information to display an analog speed dial.
I originally wrote the app as a way to record GPS
--- On Thu, 25/6/09, Vincent MEURISSE osm-t...@meurisse.org wrote:
and cannot install the OSM plugin for
wordpress neither
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/osm/
??
nice answer :)
(Btw I don't know the answer)
Take a screen shot?
--- On Fri, 26/6/09, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
Have the users explicitly agreed to this?
Yes, a popup dialog asks them on startup if they wish to upload to OSM, and
there is a menu item to enable/disable as well.
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--- On Sun, 28/6/09, Douglas Furlong douglas.furl...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it possible to check the accuracy of the GPS points, and
strip out any points that have a poor accuracy rating?
The app reports PDOP or HDOP, not sure which java gives as the accuracy field
to be honest, but anything
--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote:
What part of it's not under our control didn't you
understand?
Have you asked your provider lately about IPv6 address space? Most providers
seem to be setting up IPv6 silently and/or more proactive lately when it comes
--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote:
wifi. How can
we use massive amounts of car tracks?
How do you want to use them?
Actually this topic sort of come up recently on talk-au, firstly you can take
all the data, remove spurious track information and average the
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Peter Dörrie peter.doer...@googlemail.com wrote:
Well they could also used against OSM. If people start
using theirs car-gps output for this and don't bother to
switch of the snap-to-road feature (and many won't), we
are in trouble.
Yes, but the context here is home brew
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
This is a bad idea. Do it right or do it not.
... has never been OSM's attitude so far, so why change
now. Honestly, I
Judging by my experience, there will be most likely be between 0.01% and 1%
IPv6 traffic v IPv4 traffic,
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Thomas Schäfer tschae...@t-online.de wrote:
Your horse isn't high?
I prefer soap boxes personally, they don't tend to shy ;)
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--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Bernhard zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote:
First I read the location from http://api.hostip.info.
Then, if the user has a browser with geolocation (wifi
based position
finder) the user will be asked if he wants to give his
Firefox 3.5
geolocation to the
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
- Devices. iPhone has an offline maps app. It's easy to
make maps for Garmin devices.
AndNav2 (Android) has an inbuilt pre-caching option, this can be slow, the
alternative is some apps that precache maps for trekbuddy (J2ME) also
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
The data is the other point. Planet is currently around 6.2
GB, compressed. That could fit on two DVDs. Probably better
That's assuming you leave it in OSM format, you can probably reduce this size
if you switch it to some other
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote:
People care because it has been standardized and is being
implemented
by major players: http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html
Dunno about you, but 50,000,000 blackberry users can't be too wrong...
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, si...@mungewell.org si...@mungewell.org wrote:
Distilling this down to a way which is 'not more than 5m
away' from the
original might save a considerable amount of space.
You can also strip out all of the data/tags which you are
not interested
in rendering.
Or you
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Aun Yngve Johnsen skipp...@gimnechiske.org wrote:
First of all I doubt there are 50,000,000 blackberry users,
Not my figure, but apparently the number of active BB subscribers
that number sounds a little too high, and yes, they can be
I'm not sure but the number of their
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote:
Or you could use some binary format that reduces all
the bloating produced by xml.
...or database [files] as Rory McCann suggested, for direct
usage.
I'm guessing the database files would take up more space due to overheads and
--- On Fri, 3/7/09, Bernhard zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote:
Firefox, iPhone, Blackberry geolocation is a funny thing.
Easy to use.
In the case of the BlackBerry browser it pulls the info from a GPS chip if
available.
Alternatively there is Skyhook Wireless which provide APIs
--- On Fri, 3/7/09, Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com wrote:
The data must be stored in a list of ip addresses
associated with a
mast, that mast having a GPS location. Bit like geoip but
on a bigger
scale.
No, IPs would be a very imprecise way to do it, simply because IPs get handed
--- On Fri, 3/7/09, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote:
then you win.
If you want to win, all you have to do according to a previous poster is draw
up a migration plan for OSM.
If that's the case, I'm not sure where the hold up is exactly because the work
the .nl guys have put in proves
--- On Fri, 3/7/09, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote:
It's possible, but it appears the people who think it's so
important
just want to sit on their arses and have someone else do
the work.
To be fair, only those with root access to production systems and contacts with
--- On Fri, 3/7/09, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote:
I wonder what the RTT would be from UK to USA. Maybe even
the amount of
packetloss; I mean if OpenShortestPigeonFlight is not
used... that could
be enormous.
Assuming there is no large amount of packet losses due to packet
--- On Sat, 4/7/09, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote:
I don’t know about UCL (I imagine as a University they
probably already
have an easy route to IPv6), but Bytemark specifically
offer it[1]. I
guess that would cover the wiki and repository.
Someone already commented that UCL has
--- On Sat, 4/7/09, Aun Yngve Johnsen skipp...@gimnechiske.org wrote:
Totally agree, I would love to see more OSM in the press,
but I have absolutely no clue in how to manage it...
Ask Apple or Mozilla for help?
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--- On Mon, 6/7/09, Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com wrote:
The most obvious implementation we could do would be where
users visit the slippy map without having a location set in
their cookie. Currently we guess at a location via IP
address, but it would be good (and not difficult)
gmap people, 'cause Google already knows our map is
better.
Maybe in your area, but speaking from experience Australia is very poorly
mapped out except for metro areas. There is large areas that look empty but
really aren't, there is back roads all over the place, they just haven't been
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap#History
I'm looking forward to seeing New Zealand fully
complete. (It looks like it will be done faster than
Canada though :( ... with the LINZ data, and other other
stuff.
I'd
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
and so on. We could
even have little fish swimming in the oceans like the maps
in olden days.
Do you mark Ye be dragons here on the map too? :)
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Tracing rivers and such on OSM gave me an idea for a possible way to promote
OSM, geography students.
I mean what better way to teach kids about geography than doing a little
cartography :)
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--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Marc Schütz schue...@gmx.net wrote:
please do _not_ use name:la for that purpose, because this
would be how the ancient romans (or the speakers of Modern
Latin) call the animals.
What about name:scientific or name:sci ?
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote:
I was thinking this also - I was
going to send an email to the local faculty who are
responsible for the GIS curriculum at each local school, and
also offer to speak or help get students started (first edit
sessions can be frustrating).
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com wrote:
There are different target groups, primary school,
secondary, college/uni so we need targeted plans for each.
I was mostly thinking secondary, I didn't think primary would be that
interested or able to produce useful data,
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote:
Back when I was at School, If I could have done a GCSE or
A-Level in
Cartography I would have done. Its a much under taught
subject.
It either needs to be taught as a Subject in its own right
or as Part
of Technical Drawing, Its
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com wrote:
Though I know we might not be able to use information from
11yr old
kids it still does not mean we can not help provide
education
This would fall into the category of PR more than anything I assume, does
anything like this
--- On Fri, 10/7/09, Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com wrote:
As osm grows the chances that somone
will try to damage the map grows.
Maybe a new user should have their edits checked when
they first join and then build trust that way. Make it a
random check but put the priority on the
--- On Fri, 10/7/09, Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com wrote:
I don't realistically see an
automated reputation system working given the community we
have but how about a mentoring type approach where
experienced mappers adopt one or more newbies.
Well it would have saved a lot of newbie
--- On Sat, 11/7/09, Stefan Baebler stefan.baeb...@gmail.com wrote:
Fixing subway stations in Rome wouldn't be prohibited to
newcomers if
they limit themselves for that day to Rome, encouraging
them to focus
on an area rather than jumping around the globe changing
things (True
Hopefully
--- On Sun, 12/7/09, David Carmean d...@halibut.com wrote:
However, in my neighborhood, JOSM shows a very pixellated
image at high zoom, while
the yahoo web interface shows aerial photos at what must be
about 0.1m resolution.
Please add your findings to this ticket:
--- On Sun, 12/7/09, MP singular...@gmail.com wrote:
(long road routes across US/australia or even flights - one
user in
Even the current limits make it time consuming downloading multiple areas to
cover drives in rural areas I've taken in the last month alone.
--- On Mon, 13/7/09, Simon Wood si...@mungewell.org wrote:
Following suggestions and the fact that 'man_made:tower'
does not appear to be a formally recognised tag (even if
JOSM knows about it) I would like to bring the following two
tags into the approval process.
There is a bazillion
--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
With a mighty mouse-click, we can import 30,000
tower=smooth tags :@)
-but of course we wont. (OK, bad joke)
Jokes aside that isn't actually far fetched since the ACMA (Australian
Communications and Media Authority) has
--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote:
At the moment, they have been imported in a way that will
not render:
height=46
source=Antennebureau
source_ref=http://www.antenneregister.nl/
technology=GSM 900
I'd split the last line into frequency/technology, 900Mhz or similar for
--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
If you're saying that it should mail some mythical team of
ninja mappers
who will spring into action and revert the changeset then
you're going
to need to establish the team of ninja mappers first before
we can add
the button.
Why
--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote:
Take a look at the history for this stretch of I-75 near
the TN/GA border, since I was unaware of the undo process, I
ended up spending 6+ hours redrawing I-75 (admittedly the
work needed to be done to fix TIGER, but still)
--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote:
I now have this image of a thematic map in my head which
features a
frightened child walking through a freezing forest having
to dodge
cougars, wolves and pedobears.
Sounds like a blockbuster when compared to the usual
--- On Fri, 17/7/09, Birgit Huesken birgit.hues...@web.de wrote:
There are places where people, who for different reasons
can't stay
alone or in their families, live. The idea is to create a
What you are describing is normally known (at least here) as shelters. For
homeless people and
--- On Fri, 17/7/09, Birgit Huesken birgit.hues...@web.de wrote:
If I understood you correctly, shelters are something like
emergency
places or homes where people stay for a comparably short
time.
What I mean are places where people really _live_ instead
of staying
alone or with their
In the last week or so there has been dumps that osm2pgsql fails to parse due
to garbage characters, I even tried the -u switch for kicks, but unless I
manually intervene and clean things up osm2pgsql refuses to deal with it.
Pretty sure I'm using the latest version, or near to it, was
keep right thinks a node ending in barrier=*, cattle_grid and others I guess,
where as the road past a lot of these barriers would be access=private and
usually isn't mapped.
eg http://osm.org/go/ueSEtgYJj--
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--- On Mon, 20/7/09, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
Of course, determining whether your average bit of woodland
in the UK is
Maybe these tags exist for other parts of the world too?
I'm not 100% certain but I'm pretty sure not all areas in Australia has been
logged or managed and
--- On Mon, 20/7/09, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
Indeed, in most
developed countries, I would suggest that it is very rare
for trees to
be naturally occurring or not managed in some way.
I've no idea about most developed countries, but I'm confident that not all of
--- On Mon, 20/7/09, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
Now, I would tag it that way if that was the spec, but
there is no spec for OSM, so as I said I suspect most people
do what feels right rather than try to determine the
tagging according to some usually undeterminable
--- On Mon, 20/7/09, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote:
Although logging may be prohibited currently there may have
been
logging activity before the area was designated as a
wilderness area.
We keep getting the tree hugger ads on tv about protecting what ever section of
rain forest that
--- On Mon, 20/7/09, Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com wrote:
In my mind, something like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cricketbatwillow/825730972/
is managed forest and landuse=forest
But something like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sequella/425687849/in/photostream/
is mostly
--- On Mon, 20/7/09, Claudius claudiu...@gmx.de wrote:
keep right thinks a node ending in barrier=*,
cattle_grid and others I guess, where as the road past a lot
of these barriers would be access=private and usually isn't
mapped.
eg http://osm.org/go/ueSEtgYJj--
I don't get the
--- On Mon, 20/7/09, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
* landuse=forestry (so we know if it's managed for
commercial reasons)
You have parks, state parks, state forests, national parks, nature conservation
areas. The list goes on and on as if someone must keep thinking up new names to
--- On Mon, 20/7/09, Claudius claudiu...@gmx.de wrote:
The issue here is not that the way is ending with a barrier
node but the
fact that in a reasonable vicinity to the ending node
there's another
way. Quite often this means that some mapper forgot to
connect the
ending node to a way.
--- On Tue, 21/7/09, Tyler tyler.ritc...@gmail.com wrote:
landuse. While I'm not convinced national parks,
national forest wilderness areas,
federal/state/county/municipal wildlife reserves
shouldn't be solid fill areas in renderers, I have no
argument that boundary=reserve type is
--- On Tue, 21/7/09, Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net wrote:
I disagree. I have had dozens of ways in Bremen alone where
someone
mapped the private ways, but ended them at the gate, where
in reality
the ways did indeed connect to the public road just outside
the fence.
Well what I've
--- On Tue, 21/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
Although it's hard to tell where the ACT is because
state borders don't seem to render at higher levels or when
I fixed them up I over looked something.
yes, that's an issue, there is this rendering problem
(already
A section of the Bruce highway just north of Gympie has 2 different speed
limits depending what direction you are traveling.
While I guess this could be solved as 2 single lanes is there a more elegant
solution?
http://osm.org/go/ueTQy4AfL-
When going south you hit an 80 sign 300-500m before
--- On Wed, 22/7/09, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote:
You may want to ask on the main talk list, rather than
talk-au to get
a wider opinion.
I thought the same thing after I posted to the talk-au list :)
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--- On Wed, 22/7/09, SLXViper slxvi...@gmx.net wrote:
I think using maxspeed:forward and maxspeed:backward would
be the best
solution.
This was also discussed for access= depending on the
direction you come
from: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-July/038503.html
Hmmm
--- On Wed, 22/7/09, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, you're right - this is more
what I was thinking of seeing, but
the relationship is the one that came up when I
searched. I don't
understand the wiki search results sometimes. Try
this page. I think
the one I listed
--- On Wed, 22/7/09, Alice Kaerast kaer...@qvox.org wrote:
There is also another property which hasn't been considered
- type of
trees. Evergreen vs. Deciduous might be nice to
know. Ordnance survey
maps differentiate between coniferous and non-coniferous
and has
symbols for coppice
--- On Wed, 22/7/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
Another Venn diagram problem.
Our trees are neither coniferous or deciduous, and the
alternate is mixed
Add to that Gum trees are evergreen :)
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I think yahoo has been adding additional areas of hi-res imagery recently, I
just added an area boundary in this area:
http://osm.org/go/ueSsf4X-
Do they announce this kind of thing at all?
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--- On Thu, 23/7/09, Tristan Thomas tristan.tho...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
I'm looking for the cheapest tracker possible really,
probably off
eBay(UK). Any recommendations for a bargain?
In a car or ?
I grabbed a couple of cheap data loggers off ebay(AU), AU$70 inc postage, out
of the
--- On Thu, 23/7/09, Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es wrote:
You'll be wanting a
logger capable of logging data to an SD card in no time (so
you don't have to
download the data every day). I mean, who doesn't love OSM
maps in an eTrex?
I skipped the sd card variant and bought
--- On Thu, 23/7/09, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry to be off-topic, but has anyone looked in to building
the perfect OSM GPS logger from parts? I wonder
if the overall price would be less than $40 if we put
together a GPS chipset, an SD card slot, and a simple
microcontroller.
--- On Fri, 24/7/09, Tristan Thomas tristan.tho...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Sorry, I'm a bit
confused. Does the
BT757 connect to your phone then? What does it use
the phone for?
By 'cell' I meant the solar cell/solar panel it comes with, and has nothing to
do with phones, the only time I
--- On Fri, 24/7/09, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote:
I have no idea how good the GPS receivers on mobile phones
are, but if that is
I've played with several GPS enabled mobile phones, mostly BB's and the G1, but
they are pretty good in most cases. There is also A-GPS enabled phones too,
--- On Fri, 24/7/09, Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote:
people think GPS if they're getting a new phone. Battery
life suffers
on both, of course, so you're not going to be logging as
You can get after market batteries for some/most? phones that have increased
capacity.
You can
What about those information offices that exist on estates where they try and
sell you a block of land and/or a house, sometimes a demo house is used as an
office, but I've seen little shacks put up as well.
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I can't see a time limit tag at all, there is a lot of free council car parks
in various places but they may have a 2 or 3 hour time limit on them.
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--- On Sun, 26/7/09, Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com wrote:
I see a problem wiith this idea.
Only because councils change the times/prices reguarly.
Often without notice. You can use many supermarket car parks
for 2 hours but that could change depening on the seasons.
What councils
--- On Sun, 26/7/09, Peter Dörrie peter.doer...@googlemail.com wrote:
time_limitation=yes
limitation_duration=3 (time in hours)
Well it's a restriction, so tagging it as such might be more consistent with
other restrictions, eg.
restriction=time_limitation
I have no idea about how to tag
restriction=time_limitation
Actually time is usually used in tagging for time of day, so perhaps
stay_limitation might be more applicable for how long you can stay in the car
park.
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--- On Sun, 26/7/09, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
Using the tag 'description=*' would
help show users the most
noteworthy details along with the phone # to call for more
info.
It'd be nice if it would be computer readable, not just human readable since
then you could
--- On Sun, 26/7/09, malenki o...@malenki.ch wrote:
Maybe this helps:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Maximum_Stay
Doesn't look like it was approved, and it doesn't look like it would be
nice/easy to parse by some kind of software, eg searching for a place to park.
--- On Sun, 26/7/09, Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl wrote:
When searching for a parking space, it is even simpler. The
software you use
for that, doesn't have to understand the tag. It just has
to display it.
Ok you get back 50 results within a 2 block radius but if you could drill down
so
--- On Sun, 26/7/09, ヴィカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a park barrier like this:
Like its made of metal, circular in shape, two
perpendicular diagonals separator, rotates and prevents any
sort of vehicles including cycles to be brought in.
Only one person can enter
--- On Sun, 26/7/09, Vikas Yadav vi...@thevikas.com wrote:
btw, JOSM does not recognize turnstile while it had an icon
for stile.
there is no official turnstile tag with OSM, stile is the same thing.
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--- On Sun, 26/7/09, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote:
I swear that neither the
questioner or the last
poster is a sock puppet account!
Yes, some times the slightest of actions have the most effect :)
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--- On Sun, 26/7/09, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote:
I think that you should use
barrier=turnstile, otherwise data users will think they are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stile
Turnstiles were originally used, like other forms of stile, to allow human
beings to pass whilst
--- On Mon, 27/7/09, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote:
Then file a trac ticket at http://josm.openstreetmap.de to get one added.
Do we really need to file bugs on all types of stiles? or would it be better to
list it as barrier=stile and subtype?
Remember that in OSM you can
I've noticed some people have tagged bridges with height=*, rather than tagging
the road way under the bridge as maxheight=* and I'm kind of unsure which is
better.
By using height you don't have to break the way under the bridge up, on the
other hand maxheight is specific to the road under
--- On Mon, 27/7/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
maxheight expresses a height limit for using the way to
which the tag is
added. If no unit is included, the value is assumed to be
in metres.
You get to break up the way and mark it as maxheight
I'm just trying to make other people's
And the bridge in question is a rail bridge with over head wires, the height
bit is clearance under the bridge.
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--- On Mon, 27/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
but be careful not to break things up. Maxheight could be
valid for
the way on the bridge itself as well.
Yup, the height is someone's attempt to do maxheight, not mapping the clearance
or height of the bridge...
In
I think everyone is thinking of this in one of 2 ways, it's either an attribute
of the bridge, or a restriction of the way under the bridge.
The maxheight tag looks like it was aimed as a restriction tag, the way below
the bridge is restricted if you are above or close to X metres you will
--- On Tue, 28/7/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed. And it's clear that both ways of thinking are
probably valid.
As of time of writing maxheight is the only valid one and I don't think we need
or should have 2 tags to indicate the same thing in 2 different ways.
Can
--- On Tue, 28/7/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
Ah, perhaps our difference in opinion stems from our
different
perspectives - your emphasis on when I travel vs my
emphasis on,
perhaps, when I look at a map, or when I conceptualise
the world.
That was the basis of the 2 sets
--- On Tue, 28/7/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
I would at least suggest that - if maxheight is applied to
a node, as
you suggest - the node should be *shared* by the bridge
(way) and the
way passing under. This makes it clearer that maxheight is
The problem with this is
--- On Tue, 28/7/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
Um...the way would also be close proximity to the bridge,
because it
passes under it... I don't see how finding a node near a
bridge is a
particularly elegant solution. And by random I mean the
particular
node you choose would
--- On Tue, 28/7/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm starting to like this idea. But the problem with this
is how to
define that section of way, so as not to introduce a
maintenance
You really don't want to pull on that thread, the same can be said for bridges
or virtually
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