Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:34 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 25/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: This is not about tagging for routing software. Then what is it? It's about choosing the most appropriate way to tag something that *intrinsically* involves

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:06 PM, James Livingstondoc...@mac.com wrote: Or we could just always use a relation, so that [mappers] and software don't have to check for two different things, when editing and processing data respectively. Yup. ___

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Pierenpier...@gmail.com wrote: First interaction is the coordinates/positions of these elements. We shouldn't create relations if the information can be deduced from the positions. We had a similar discussion about identifying all objects inside a polygon (tag

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Joseph Bookerj...@neoturbine.net wrote: You gain nothing with the proposals raised compared to relations, except some avoidance of relations. With relations the tagging is much simpler, it makes sense intuitively when you come across it in the data...

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:06 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: Have a look at the awful way someone came up with tagging speed cameras, I couldn't figure it out at the time so I ended up tagging speed cameras as a single node with highway=speed_camera. Why would making it harder

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Peter Childspchi...@bcs.org wrote: The only time I can see a relation actually helping is with stuff that is difficult to map like no left turn Do you realise why you need a relation for no left turn? It's because the restriction *intrinsically involves more

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 26/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure that deducing the meaning of a node tagged with stop from the positions of the ways and nodes in the vicinity is equally clear. I know you

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: What about railway crossings?  I've seen railway crossings with no lights, gates or similar, just a stop sign.  Usually way out in the middle of nowhere, so there may not be a routable junction for quite some distance, and

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:32 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: Actually there is still a junction from when it goes from 2 lanes to 1 lane, and the (usually in .au) give way sign is before the junction of the 2 lanes into one. Only if the lanes are marked as separate ways, which

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:39 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:53:53 +1000, Roy Wallace wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'd like to start discussion on the deprecation of the Tag:highway=stop in favour

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:44 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: What happens at T intersections where there is a stop sign on all ways, and cross intersection with 4 stop signs, the US version of a roundabout effectively. The ways must be split so that they end (or begin) at the

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:22 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I liked your suggestion of putting a node just before the intersection and tagging it, making relations and splitting ways sounds like something very convulted just for a stop sign so most people probably won't be

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: The exact problem here is that the 'STOP' requirement only relates to the junction with another road and is therefore not a tag of the way or the intersection, but rather information relating to approaching one from the

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:23 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I've seen a lot of talk about stop signs, but in Australia there is also give way signs, which can imped flow of traffic similar to stop signs. Replacing stop with give_way (or similar) should do the trick. The

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:58 AM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: Well, they must IMHO. The wiki explains the ontology of the tags we're using, and the wiki is the main regulamentation for tags. Otherwise we go wild, and everyone uses what she likes best. Yes, but STILL - tags should

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 60, Issue 157

2009-08-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
2009/8/25 Martin Norbäck mar...@norpan.org: Using a relation has some advantages: * it connects the stop requirement to the junction node (you can look at the junction node to see that there is a stop requirement) * if the way leading to the junction is split/reversed, the relation still

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Pierenpier...@gmail.com wrote: Tagging a whole way just because you have to stop at the end is a deep modeling mistake. There is no similarity between the oneway which applies to the way with a stop sign which applies to an intersection. I see what you mean,

Re: [OSM-talk] Escalators and Travalators

2009-08-23 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tobias Knerro...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Nobody suggested multiple highway tags. The highway tag currently only contains features that are relevant for routing pedestrians or vehicles, and I prefer it to stay like that. Things like pipelines or goods conveyors

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'd like to start discussion on the deprecation of the Tag:highway=stop in favour of using stop=yes/both/-1. First impression: the value of the tag is extremely ambiguous, and in no way self-explanatory. I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - incline up down

2009-08-22 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Morten Kjeldgaardm...@bioxray.au.dk wrote: hard-to-verify data - I don't see why incline=* is any harder to verify than ele=* - as you said yourself, if you have one you can calculate/verify the other... The fact that there's a lot of unreliable and

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - incline up down

2009-08-21 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard m...@bioxray.au.dk wrote: On 21/08/2009, at 03.00, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Yeah, numeric value is better, but up/down is better than nothing. I think both should be allowed and within the scope of the proposal. if you already have good

Re: [OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

2009-08-20 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:30 AM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 20/08/2009 15:27, Peter Körner wrote: IN such circumstances I use building=... or landuse=retail to outline the combined structure or area, and then use landuse=retail NODES within them to label each unit How

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - incline up down

2009-08-20 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/20 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de: Proposal for tagging the general direction of a way as incline=up/down: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/incline_up_down I personally use the

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - incline up down

2009-08-20 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)skipp...@gimnechiske.org wrote: incline should hold a numeric value, to indicate how steep it is, positive value is up, and negative is down, if steepness isn't trivial, leave it out. If you just want to render a steep road sign, why

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-19 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Joseph Reevesiknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like start_date and end_date would work fine in this situation. Can I just point out, the proposal I linked to before (link below) met with some objections to start_date and end_date, so you may want to re-think

Re: [OSM-talk] Lane turn restrictions

2009-08-19 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Yann Coupiny...@coupin.net wrote: Plus what does inner mean on a oneway road? I think it's crucial that lane 1 is either left or right depending uppon what is decided but that it stays the same accross the world. It'll be unusable otherwise. I propose 1 is

Re: [OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

2009-08-19 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Andrew Ayrea...@britishideas.com wrote: If I draw an outline for a freestanding building which is some kind of business, then I give the outline a name. Mapnik renders the name. If I draw the outline of a strip mall (a connected string of shops) this

Re: [OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

2009-08-19 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Andrew Ayrea...@britishideas.com wrote: Thanks. It's not tagging for the renderer, it's using the renderer to give me a hint that I might be doing things wrong. Fair enough. But generally, I find it's not very useful for that purpose. Searching the wiki and/or

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-18 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:06 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: Actually time and space is the 4th dimension :) People already want editors that can handle 3D, not just 2D so they can map out complex buildings and very complex roads that overlap each other and so forth. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-18 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Stephen Hopeslh...@gmail.com wrote: I am hoping in a couple of weeks to map the grounds at a festival that occurs yearly in the same spot. This is not so much historical data, as data that's only true for three weeks a year. The rest of the time, it's just

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-18 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:43 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: Most data in historic information is very tiny areas, most of the data will be only current information. It seems we have different ideas about the scope of this proposal, then. I thought the implication was that in

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-18 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:34 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 19/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: This would lead to massive amounts of historic information into the future - i.e. nothing that has been correctly mapped need ever be deleted. Even so

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-18 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Roy Wallacewaldo000...@gmail.com wrote: But anyway, can we move on? I'm simply saying we should look at this as what it really is - extending OSM to the time dimension. Apologies everyone, I hadn't noticed the following existing proposal. Please have a look

Re: [talk-au] Google Map Maker update - releases Africa

2009-08-17 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 18/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: From Map Maker, Google has made the entire dataset of Africa fully available for download by non-profits, government agencies and individuals to create

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-16 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/16 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Whiteleggnick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: In the UK I would tag such a path as foot=designated;bicycle=permissive; and pragmatically highway=footway for the moment

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-15 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/15 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Could the definition of official be simplified to signed?? If not, what would be the difference between bicycle=official and bicycle=signed? As I have understood

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-15 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Bicycle=signed is IMHO not the best idea, because what do you do for official or designated _and_ signed ways? As I mentioned before, you would have to change the syntax to something more like

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-15 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Mike Harrismik...@googlemail.com wrote: Roy Could you give reference to your wiki quote? I can see for =designated at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:access%3Ddesignated QUOTE This tag indicates that a route has been specially designated (typically

Re: [OSM-talk] A process for rethinking map features

2009-08-15 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Richard Mannrichard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: I've picked up Dave's point above, because it's clear that part of the real problem is that adhoc committees sometimes don't take account of the implications for particular data users (and stylesheets

Re: [OSM-talk] [english 95%] A process for rethinking map features

2009-08-15 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Ulf Möller wrote: The working group will just have to produce the better, more consistent tagging scheme. If it manages to do that, then its results will be accepted. +1

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Parking garage entrances

2009-08-14 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Andrew MacKinnonandrew...@gmail.com wrote: I am wondering about how pedestrian and car entrances to parking garages should be tagged. highway=footway if you're talking about a path for people to walk on Each is located underneath an outdoor playing field

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-14 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Nick Whiteleggnick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Silly question, maybe: but, what does yes actually mean? Everyone seems to use it differently; it was intended originally for a legal right but in practice has been used in a range of scenarios. In this

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Roy Wallacewaldo000...@gmail.com wrote: To me, cycleway means path, designated means signed, and bicycle=yes means it's suitable for bikes. So if you have a path that is suitable for a bicycle but does not have a sign with a bicycle, I would use highway=path

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Mike Harrismik...@googlemail.com wrote: Tend to agree in part - I think the 'official' bit is actually redundant? Would this improve the page? I'm not sure you'd be successful in removing 'official' altogether, but I think it could do with some clarification,

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Mike Harrismik...@googlemail.com wrote: The problem is that some of us follow the wiki advice re designated= which was developed after a lot of discussion in this group! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:access%3Ddesignated Designated= does not mean

Re: [OSM-talk] designated shared cyclepath

2009-08-14 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Lized...@billiau.net wrote: http://twitpic.com/djyxb This is Ash Kyd's photo, and I'm not sure if he's on this list. highway=path; bicycle=designated; foot=designated; surface=ground. Not sure about width=* :) ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Morten Kjeldgaardm...@bioxray.au.dk wrote: I think it is time to separate tagging of traffic laws into a separate namespace from purely geographical map features. The information is useful, but the current concept of OSM tagging is not designed to deal with it

Re: [OSM-talk] Country-specific defaults/values (was: Re: Proliferation of path vs. footway)

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Tobias Knerro...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: David Earl wrote: If cycleway does mean something different in Germany than it means in UK, why do we try to use the same tag/value in the first place? Why don't we use, e.g., Radweg for Germany? (Or differentiate with

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Richard Mannrichard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: The deprecation of footway/cycleway was voted on (by not many people, but nevertheless), and the deprecation was rejected, but some people don't seem to be able to take no for an answer. It was? Maybe

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:33 PM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: So my feeling is we should document what collection of users a particular highway tag applies to by default IN EACH COUNTRY (including things like under 12 or not on a Sunday if that's the normal situation). Then

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Norbert Hoffmannnhoffm...@spamfence.net wrote: I say: forget all defaults and store all those values in the database. Those only partly documented defaults are the cause of the discussed problems. +1. Everyone seems to agree that the current use of

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Nopekkeh...@gmx.de wrote: First of all, we would need to agree that there actually is a problem and that we need to (re)define something to clarify it. There have again been many mails along the line It is easy and can all be done following existing

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Proliferation of path vs. footway]

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Pierenpier...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, llama access restrictions probably aren't a top priority, but it IS a GOOD THING to have llama restrictions in the database. Yes, it is. In PERU. I'd be quite happy to know whether I can ride my llama down my street

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Jukka Rahkonenjukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fi wrote: Hi, What might be an unambiguous way to tell that some cycleway is NOT designated? In theory if bicycle=designated means what it says then bicycle=yes might mean that yes, it is a cycleway, but no, it is not a

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Nopekkeh...@gmx.de wrote: Clarification: What I meant is: Designated only for ways legally dedicated to one mode of travel. Usually that means individually road-signed, but it could also be done for a whole area like a nature reserve with a declaration for all

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Proliferation of path vs. footway]

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/14 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: but this is not real map-information but it is legal information you could also get from different sources. If a way is legally a cycleway, all the laws

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Proliferation of path vs. footway]

2009-08-13 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Roy Wallacewaldo000...@gmail.com wrote: The general format, which could be extended to all kinds of access restrictions, is: X:K = L;V, where X = the standard tag (maxspeed, or access, or bicycle, etc.) K = the kind of condition L = the value of the

Re: [talk-au] 4wd_only

2009-08-12 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, BlueMMbluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: Has anyone discussed the appropriateness of using the 4wd_only nomenclature? It seems a bit Australia(NZ?) specific. Maybe that is why there is so much opposition. Seems the Wiki proposal is losing the vote. What about

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-11 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Emilie Laffrayemilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: We should stop reinventing the wheel. Let's work on those definitions first to make sure that everyone and every languages are on the same wavelength. Agreed. I think: step 1) Work out how the tags are being used

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-11 Per discussione Roy Wallace
2009/8/12 Nop ekkeh...@gmx.de: Hi! Lauri Kytömaa schrieb: _When not signed for anyone_ but where local legislation allows cyclists on such routes, people used local judgement to decide whether the way was built as being suitable for the common cyclist. Some claim that one couldn't know

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-11 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Craig Wallacecraig...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 11/08/2009 09:20, Lauri Kytömaa wrote: So what about things like mountain bike trails, signed or otherwise? There's plenty that I wouldn't advise my mother to cycle on, but I wouldn't describe them as a footway. For

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-11 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Norbert Hoffmannnhoffm...@spamfence.net wrote: Greg Troxel wrote: One advantage of Highway=path is, that there is no implication besides not wide enough to be a track. +1 Implications are fine only if they are consistent (i.e. consistently used as documented

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-10 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Martin Simongrenzde...@gmail.com wrote: So you could tag a footway which also allows bicycles as highway=footway,bicycle=yes(assuming footway implies foot=designated) or as highway=path,foot=designated,bicycle=yes. No Information loss, no difference, no

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-10 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:56 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: In other areas there are cycle paths and pedestrians are allowed but they aren't the primary users intended to use the way and cyclists mostly use them. So yes there would be information lost by simplifying things in

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-10 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Nopekkeh...@gmx.de wrote: - Can we agree on a common interpretation of what foot/cycleway are supposed to mean? I highly doubt it, because highway=footway and highway=cycleway are quite vague, and infer different things to different people. And while a clear

Re: [OSM-talk] A process for rethinking map features

2009-08-10 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Pierenpier...@gmail.com wrote: If you see different interpretations of the current footway/path description, then try to improve the description on the wiki, first. +1 I'd also recommend that if there are several different definitions of a tag currently in

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-10 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:39 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm in agreement with Tom's suggestion of a working group, however they should have the ability to make decisions they come to stick, true democracies fail from everyone having their own agendas. Define stick i.e. no

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-10 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:11 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 11/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I'm talking about a basic subset of tags that are commonly used, such as normally found on the mapping features wiki page. I'm not talking about forcing

Re: [talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

2009-08-10 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Ben Kelleyben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: In NSW a shared path means foot=yes, bicycle=yes. The default in NSW for highway=footway (or highway=path) is bicycle=no (same as the OSM conventions). No, highway=path does not imply bicycle=no (please see the wiki page).

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-10 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Lized...@billiau.net wrote: SUMMARY Trying to keep my comment general at first to find what are the needs: what should be in the highway tag and what are local factors. This turned into a stream of thoughts but hopefully coherent enough to breed some more

Re: [talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

2009-08-09 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Lized...@billiau.net wrote: i think we should mark highway=cycleway where it is a cycleway What is a cycleway? Is it defined in a verifiable way? i accept that highway=path could be subdivided into everything but to me path is primarily foot use first This is

Re: [talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

2009-08-09 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:02 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Sun, 9/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: What is a cycleway? Is it defined in a verifiable way? Yes they have signs up with pictures of bicycles. So you seem to be suggesting: 1. for a way signed

Re: [OSM-talk] to all potlatch and JOSM users - automatic simplification of geometry

2009-08-08 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to start a discussion about which automated functionalities we want to allow As long as the automated functionalities are initiated and controlled by human judgment, there is no need to limit them.

Re: [talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

2009-08-08 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:50 AM, j...@talk21.com wrote: With all footpaths being shared paths here in the ACT, what makes a good cycling path is sometimes difficult to pin down. If the meaning of a tag is difficult to pin down, IMHO it is probably not verifiable and therefore probably not a good

Re: [talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

2009-08-08 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:03 AM, j...@talk21.com wrote: Think of the situation with roads, and the multitude of different tags available to show how important the road is. We only need two (or maybe three at most) to say whether a shared path is a good cycling path.  And then a few guidelines

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] restriction=school_zone (second email)

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:12 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: maxspeed:school_zone=hh:mm-hh:mm[,hh:mm-hh:mm];speed This explains what the restriction is, school zone, the times it is in effect and the reduced speed all in one line. That is much better than the current proposal

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] restriction=school_zone (second email)

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:22 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: It's going to get very messy very quickly if you are trying to shoe horn general time limits in with school zones, but you could do: maxspeed=80 maxspeed:time_1=school;07:00-09:00,14:30-15:30;mon-fri;40

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] restriction=school_zone (second email)

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:12 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Fri, 7/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I don't like the _1 and _2, but I guess you're saying that's the only I didn't come up with it, it's already being used for other similar things where

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] restriction=school_zone (second email)

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Lars Aronssonl...@aronsson.se wrote: John Smith wrote: For general time based restrictions you can still do it in one line if you must, without needing to parse variable information in the key section: maxspeed:time=12:00-23:59;tu,th;50

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] restriction=school_zone (second email)

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: why is this a value in the key: maxspeed:wet=40 couldn't you interpret maxspeed:wet as a key? The maxspeed in wet condition? Could you explain the problem that arises (I am not an informatics person and maybe for

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking and Access

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Kevo...@kevswindells.eu wrote: Hi All, While trying (and failing miserably) to find a parking space in Birmingham (UK) the other day (terrible sign age - talk about leaving it to the last minute - AND to top it all I must have parked in the one multi-story not

Re: [OSM-talk] conditions as part of value/key (was: Re: [RFC] restriction=school_zone (second email))

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Tobias Knerro...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: - conditions in values: Also possible, but means all information of the same category (e.g. all maxspeeds) will be in a single value, which will result in rather long tags. It will also break existing applications unless

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/8 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Forget about the renderer for a second. IMHO we should tag what is on the ground. As the wiki says, layer is used to mark if a way/node/area is above or under another

Re: [OSM-talk] conditions as part of value/key

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Tobias Knerro...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Roy Wallace wrote: You don't need all maxspeeds to be in a single value. Nor would it break existing applications. Maxspeed=* is still maxspeed=*. You would be adding additional keys such as maxspeed:time

Re: [talk-au] posters/banners

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: Yeah, the 2 logos kind of each represent an extreme: one is a bit plain and the other is too distracting. I might try putting a map rendered as the background, but have it more as a watermark than an attraction. It's probably time

Re: [talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:08 AM, j...@talk21.com wrote: I have a strong feeling that this would be unacceptable.  We need to know about different types of path and road.  Just knowing that they're suitable for bicycles or for motor traffic isn't enough.  Such dumbing-down of the data to meet a

Re: [talk-au] Proposed changes for the Australian tagging guidelines.

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Evan Sebiree...@sebire.org wrote: Bush walking paths should also be tagged as path not footway, except for National parks were bicycles / horses are typically banned. I think these should still be tagged as path, with additional tags added as necessary. Often

Re: [talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:56 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Fri, 7/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure no one was suggesting this (i.e. removing information). It's the way the information in entered in tags that is being discussed. The fact

Re: [talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

2009-08-07 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Ashley Kyda...@kyd.com.au wrote: I'm really not convinced that [it's] a good idea, for renderer *or* semantics to tag a government-designated cycleway as a path with bike access. So, something that's currently a highway=cycleway, right? highway=path;

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] restriction=school_zone (second email)

2009-08-06 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/6 Liz ed...@billiau.net: On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: there could be maxspeed[08:30-09:30]=40 maxspeed[14:30-15:30]=40 maxspeed[08:30-09:30]:reason=school_zone

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] highway=unclassified currently is too ambiguous, so here's my proposal to fix it.

2009-08-06 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Richard Mannrichard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: As indicated, I've had a go at a rewrite of the unclassified page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified Comments in the usual place (or have your own go at hacking it) I've

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] restriction=school_zone (second email)

2009-08-06 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:55 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 6/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: maxspeed[school_days][08:30-09:30]=40 Except that is putting values on the key side of things. To do things properly you would need something like

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] restriction=school_zone (second email)

2009-08-06 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:42 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 6/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Without that requirement, it's a one-liner: maxspeed[Tu,Th][12:00-24:00] = 50 You've gone from school zones to general restrictions. That's right. Sorry

Re: [talk-au] mailing lists and replying to them.

2009-08-06 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:47 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 6/8/09, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote: I understand but will never accept the opposing position as I use a mail client that does handle reply-to-list correctly and have no sympathy for people who

Re: [talk-au] mailing lists and replying to them.

2009-08-06 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:29 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: They don't understand that they need to hit reply to all, that's what started this thread in the first place, they thought hitting reply would reply to the list, not to the person that sent it. IMHO that's a problem

Re: [talk-au] mailing lists and replying to them.

2009-08-06 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:26 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Fri, 7/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO that's a problem with them, not with the mailing list. But you Shouldn't we be a little more accommodating then treating people that don't know better

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - 4wd_only

2009-08-05 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: High ground clearance required? ...So 4WD_Only is not really the correct terminology and does not clearly identify the problem? IS it ground clearance, deep fords, mud or poor traction conditions ... The sign says 4WD ONLY

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] highway=unclassified currently is too ambiguous, so here's my proposal to fix it.

2009-08-05 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:49 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 5/8/09, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I would not hesitate to use highway=residential or highway=unclassified for these (or even tertiary and up if they are important to traffic). In fact, nobody

Re: [OSM-talk] definition of the main highway-tag

2009-08-05 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: OK, to start beeing concrete, and because I got the idea that tagging according to importance is widely supported in the different countries, I edited the page. The result is here:

Re: [OSM-talk] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag

2009-08-04 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO the highway-class is not about lines on the street, not even about width, these are all relative and dependant on local habits. It's about structuring your road-grid into different levels. From the

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