Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-18 Thread SomeoneElse
One thing that I'd definitely do (and you may be doing already) would be to record details from the actual sign in a note tag. That's not going to help routers, but it will help future mappers and aid retagging when at some point in the future we've reached a concensus about how best to map

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-17 Thread cotswolds mapper
[I'm a bit confused about replying to the group, hope this goes to the right destination] Belated thanks for the various comments, I've been away. Of the various views, I tend to like highway=service + designation=unclassified_highway as the most useful. There are a lot of these signs in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-17 Thread Nick Allen
Hi, This probably won't help the eventual tagging, but the 'unfit for 'wide / long vehicles' bit is to do with legislation, both UK nowadays European. I think the relevant bit is the 'Construction Use Regulations' which lays down the maximum sizes for normal road usage. If the vehicle

[Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread cotswolds mapper
There are lots of roads where I map which have Unfit for motors signs (blue/white advisory) but are normal maintained roads in limited but regular use. Typically they are narrowish, with lots of bends and often steep. In general anything up to maybe the size of a skip lorry can get through (though

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Aidan McGinley
motor_vehicl http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehiclee=no should suffice I would have thought? On 10 December 2012 13:36, cotswolds mapper osmcotswo...@gmail.com wrote: There are lots of roads where I map which have Unfit for motors signs (blue/white advisory) but are normal

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Rounce
from the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features motor_vehicl http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehiclee=no Access permission for any motorized vehicle these routes do have access permission, but are signed as unsuitable/unfit which is more advisory Best Wishes Peter

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Gregory Williams
...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 December 2012 14:30 To: cotswolds mapper Cc: talk-gb Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehicle motor_vehicle=no should suffice I would have thought? On 10 December 2012 13:36, cotswolds mapper

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 10 December 2012 15:11, Gregory Williams greg...@gregorywilliams.me.uk wrote: I think that changing the class of the road to service isn’t the best way of recording the data. These roads will quite often legally be an unclassified highway and changing the class away from that just isn’t

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: Instead I've used highway=track based on the physical appearance, and then added designation= unclassified_highway to record the legal classification. Agreed: I often do something similar. In this case, though, I'm not entirely comfortable with highway=service