Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread Stephen Hope
This is another one of those cases where the instructions used to be in unclear. For a while the Wiki said the count was number of lanes in each direction. Some did that, some did total lane count. It has since been changed to the current (and I'm told former) total count, but there is quite

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread Craig Feuerherdt
Mark, The number refers to the total number of lanes of the way. Refer to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lanes for more information. They should be tagged with lanes=2 although AFAIK it is meaningless not required if it is a bi-directional road (as per the second example on the web page

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread Liz
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Mark Pulley wrote: What do other people do? ignore lanes in country towns and cities i've plenty of other things i find useful to map next comment is that the lanes=1 on the wiki means one lane each way and so a one lane bridge needs to be lanes=1/2 a two lane road with a

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread David Murn
My thoughts are the same as Liz. The number of lanes should be the number available for each direction. If the road has a lanes= tag and a oneway=yes tag, then it should be the total number for the way. David On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 18:07 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: This is another one of those

Re: [talk-au] Blue?

2010-01-22 Thread Andrew Gregory
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:49:39 +0800, Arie Paap wildmy...@gmail.com wrote: The correct coastline data seems to be in use again. Tiles that still have blue background are updated when resubmitted for rendering. Would be nice to be able to determine what date the rendered coastline comes from.

Re: [talk-au] For the mapper with too much money who wants it all...

2010-01-22 Thread Emilie Laffray
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Re: [talk-au] For the mapper with too much money who wants it all...

2010-01-22 Thread John Smith
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Re: [talk-au] Blue?

2010-01-22 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Andrew Gregory and...@scss.com.au To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Blue? On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:49:39 +0800, Arie Paap wildmy...@gmail.com wrote: The correct coastline data seems to be in use

Re: [talk-au] maps.bigtincan.com is down atm

2010-01-22 Thread John Smith
Most if not all services should now be restored. Also in the mean time Franc was kind enough to upload suburb boundaries, so these can be reviewed and/or fixed by using the osm files: http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/suburbs/ ___ Talk-au mailing

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread Sam Couter
Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: another example of let's change the wiki and radically change meaning missed by me because i don't find the wiki useful That page is still useless. The second photo shows cars parked on both sides of the street facing away from the camera, which suggests it's a

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread John Smith
2010/1/23 Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au: There's no indication of how to map asymmetrical roads, Liz's suggestion of using 1/2 or 3/2 amuses me. The most common example I can think of is over taking sections on say the Pacific or New England or Bruce or highways where it isn't dual carriage

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread John Henderson
Sam Couter wrote: There's no indication of how to map asymmetrical roads, Liz's suggestion of using 1/2 or 3/2 amuses me. As a separate issue, how to map roads with differing numbers of lanes, perhaps based on time? Pacific Highway at Turramurra is an example, I think the Spit Bridge in

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Pye
2010/1/23 Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au: The second photo shows cars parked on both sides of the street facing away from the camera, which suggests it's a one-way street. It's a poor example. You can't necessarily assume that a street is one way based on the direction the cars are parked. In

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread John Smith
2010/1/23 Kevin Pye kevin@gmail.com: 2010/1/23 Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au: The second photo shows cars parked on both sides of the street facing away from the camera, which suggests it's a one-way street. It's a poor example. You can't necessarily assume that a street is one way based

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread Liz
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Kevin Pye wrote: The second photo shows cars parked on both sides of the street facing away from the camera, which suggests it's a one-way street. It's a poor example. You can't necessarily assume that a street is one way based on the direction the cars are parked.