Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lanes and Cycle Tracks - how to map

2012-05-16 Thread rob . j . nickerson
Haha, I only mean well :-) The issue came about from trying to improve the guidance provided on the UK tagging guidelines. Currently I have copied over the guidance that already existed (to the consultation page), however this was very limited and has already had cries that foot=no is not c

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lanes and Cycle Tracks - how to map

2012-05-16 Thread Richard Mann
Gosh, you are a glutton for punishment. cycleway=track is used extensively in some countries highway=cycleway is use extensively in some countries cycleway=track was only rendered on OCM relatively recently cycleway:left|right=track|lane isn't rendered on OCM the Danes had a big argument about whi

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lanes and Cycle Tracks - how to map

2012-05-16 Thread Steve Dobson
On 16/05/12 17:55, Andrew Chadwick wrote: >> 3. Mapping practices: >> Clearly a "cycle lane" should be tagged by adding cycleway=lane to the >> way represented by highway=*. Furthermore any "cycle tracks" that are on >> a route completely separate from a highway can be tagged as >> highway=cyclew

Re: [Talk-GB] Byways (Was: Rights of way - Image vote)

2012-05-16 Thread Richard Mann
You sometimes get a simple direction sign at a road junction saying "Byway". It just means it doesn't go anywhere very much, but otherwise it's a normal unclassified (non-urban) road. Richard On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > > I'm pretty happy to add that any way signpos

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lanes and Cycle Tracks - how to map

2012-05-16 Thread Andrew Chadwick
On 16/05/12 16:55, rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: > I would like to improve the guidance given on the UK Tagging Guidelines > page in regards to how to map cycle paths. As a non-cyclist I would like > some advise. So far my research has found: > > 1. Definitions: > * "Cycle Lane" - lane marked

[Talk-GB] Cycling, the law and traffic signs

2012-05-16 Thread Ralph Smyth
I think the confusion here relates to a failure to differentiate criminal law - in this case failing to comply with a traffic sign - and civil law - trespass - in this case not being within the class(es) of users permitted on a particular section of highway. It's not a criminal offence to cycle o

[Talk-GB] Byways (Was: Rights of way - Image vote)

2012-05-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
I'm pretty happy to add that any way signposted as either a "Byway" "Public Byway" or "Byway Open to All Traffic" should be tagged as designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic as long as it also has a red arrow. Unlike footpaths there is little chance of a landowner putting up a sign for a "byway" unle

[Talk-GB] Cycle lanes and Cycle Tracks - how to map

2012-05-16 Thread rob . j . nickerson
Hi All, I would like to improve the guidance given on the UK Tagging Guidelines page in regards to how to map cycle paths. As a non-cyclist I would like some advise. So far my research has found: 1. Definitions: * "Cycle Lane" - lane marked out by painted lines _within_ the carriageway. M

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-16 Thread AJ Ashton
Thanks for the explanations of the complicated 'network' situation. Richard Fairhurst wrote: > It may lend itself to an ncn/rcn/lcn or nwn/rwn/lwn solution, ... > I'm tempted to suggest a generic tag for any country's national railway system > ("mainline=yes|no" or somesuch), and then you could r

Re: [Talk-GB] routing on the road network

2012-05-16 Thread Andy Allan
I don't think the email below made it to the list: > On , Tim Pigden wrote: >> Error reporting would definitely be a challenge.Are there existing >> facilities to add "suspect" type tags to enable OSM itself to be the primary >> reporting medium? I haven't looked into the details of editing OSM d

Re: [Talk-GB] routing on the road network

2012-05-16 Thread Andy Allan
On 16 May 2012 12:42, Frederik Ramm wrote: > On 05/16/2012 11:56 AM, Tim Pigden wrote: >> >> that there are no one-way streets leading to dead ends, > > > This is not common in OSM but I am not aware of anyone doing a network > analysis that would fix such a problem. Keepright has this check - "d

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-16 Thread Chris Hill
On 16/05/12 04:35, AJ Ashton wrote: Hi Richard& everyone, This started off simply as an effort to improve our display London Underground stations using existing OSM data, but was scope-creeped into much more and apparently we messed up. We've found that the lack of familiar London Underground

Re: [Talk-GB] routing on the road network

2012-05-16 Thread rob . j . nickerson
As noted there are some tools available to help find potential errors that effect routing. Have a look on the QA page [1], specifically at keepright, OSM Inspector and MapDust. As for editing OSM and proposing new tags, OpenStreetMap works a bit like wikipedia - we have a very flat structure

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way - Image vote

2012-05-16 Thread SomeoneElse
Andrew Chadwick wrote: Not a waymarker, but the signposts are fairly rare too; "Public Byway" or just "Byway" is the normal wording FWIW Derbyshire seem to have started (within the last 3 months or so) using "Byway Open to All Traffic" in full on signs. Cheers, Andy ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-16 Thread Richard Mann
"National Rail" is what ATOC came up with to describe things that are represented by the double-arrow symbol, and which would formerly have been referred to as "British Rail" or informally as the rail network. (The staff refer to it as "the railway", but that's another subject) "National Rail" isn

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way - Image vote

2012-05-16 Thread Andrew Chadwick
On 12/05/12 13:02, Philip Barnes wrote: > They do vary between highway authorities, but well worth getting some > photos of samples. The one thing waymarks have in common, and I can only > claim knowledge of England and Wales here is that a public footpath has > yellow arrows, public bridleways ha

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-16 Thread SomeoneElse
AJ Ashton wrote: .. and apparently we messed up. ... AJ @ MapBox Sorry, but who's "we" here? Is it a bunch of people at some other mailing list/forum, or who work for Mapbox, or something else? Last night I spotted changes from someone (I think*) from Peru, and (I think) from the US - w

Re: [Talk-GB] routing on the road network

2012-05-16 Thread Philip Barnes
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 13:42 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Appetite, yes, but you can also easily chase people away if your system > detects too many things where people don't think it's a bug at all, so > some tuning might be necessary. One of the weaknesses of most of the > existing systems (w

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-16 Thread SomeoneElse
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Or indeed we could just go with "network=National Rail" as a good enough solution. My issue with "National Rail" was that, to me, (as I explained to the Peruvian chap who's edited Mansfield Woodhouse station): "National Rail" means these people: http://www.nationalr

Re: [Talk-GB] routing on the road network

2012-05-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/16/2012 11:56 AM, Tim Pigden wrote: that there are no one-way streets leading to dead ends, This is not common in OSM but I am not aware of anyone doing a network analysis that would fix such a problem. that you can't turn left off a flyover onto the road underneath In OSM, tur

Re: [Talk-GB] routing on the road network

2012-05-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Tim, I expect that you would find a good appetitie to fix any problems if we can see that this will be highly valued (i.e. used in a great tool), and the bug reports are simple to understand. I'll leave comments about the quality to others, suffice to say that in the Midlands the roads and junc

[Talk-GB] routing on the road network

2012-05-16 Thread Tim Pigden
Hi This is a general question about the current state of the maps. When we use our commercial road networks (OS Mastermap & Navteq) for road routing we tend to assume that the roads have been analysed for connectivity, that there are no one-way streets leading to dead ends, that you can't turn left

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycling, the law and traffic signs

2012-05-16 Thread Andy Allan
On 16 May 2012 01:05, Jason Cunningham wrote: > Unless it's been recently changed. the Cycle Only sign could never > prohibit 'pedestrian access' because use of the sign is defined by the > Department for Transports "Traffic Signs Manual (chapter 3) [1]. > > The DFT guidance confirms the sign

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
AJ Ashton wrote: > We've found that the lack of familiar London Underground and > National Rail icons is a particularly strong sticking point with > people who would otherwise happily switch to OSM, which is > partly why we chose to focus on it. Absolutely. It does look really good. :) > I gue

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycling, the law and traffic signs

2012-05-16 Thread Richard Mann
I doubt there are any instances in the UK where there's a TRO supporting a No Pedestrians sign on a cycle track (welcome to be proved wrong!). The possibility exists in the legislation, but you'd have to explicitly sign it (the white-bike-on-blue-circle does not of itself exclude pedestrians in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-16 Thread Richard Mann
IMO it's better to add something clear than to shoehorn something into a generic tag. Especially if you end up with compound values. OK so they could be parsed, but it's just making work (both processing and maintaining). Better to have something unambiguous like national_rail=yes and london_underg

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycling, the law and traffic signs

2012-05-16 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 16 May 2012, at 01:05, Jason Cunningham wrote: > On 15 May 2012 23:32, wrote: > > As I am not a regular cyclist I must admit that I don't pay much attention to > these signs. So my question is do Local Authorities use the cycle and foot > signs (segregated or otherwise) and reserve the cy