Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread James Mast
After hands down. That's how I do intersections like that with one minor difference. If the road on the right (as in the example) doesn't have a divider, I merge the ways before leaving the intersection so I would have 3 traffic light nodes instead of 4. -James

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2013-10-14 10:42 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/15 Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us ** Example A ** Ryans Way and Sycamore Grove Ln. meet Fields Ertel Rd. at the same intersection. Fields Ertel is undivided. Ryans Way is briefly divided at the subdivision entrance, a very common configuration in newer subdivisions, but

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Alexander Jones
James Mast wrote: After hands down. That's how I do intersections like that with one minor difference. If the road on the right (as in the example) doesn't have a divider, I merge the ways before leaving the intersection so I would have 3 traffic light nodes instead of 4. -James That's

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi Minh - Thanks for clarifying the more specific cases. I realize that my example would not cover all the possible permutations. Thank you for bringing more specific cases to the table. My colleague Kristen also has some more specific examples I know she intends to share here. Your specific

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Stellan Lagerström
On 2013-10-15 4:12 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: I apologize for the confusion around the term 'braiding' - we used this term internally for a while (and it ended up in some changeset comments) not realizing that this had a different meaning that traces back to the TIGER source data. To me, the

[Talk-us] 2013-2014 OSM US Election Results

2013-10-15 Thread Richard Welty
The election for 2013-2014 is complete and the new board consists of: Mele Sax-Barnett Kathleen Danielson Ian Dees Martijn van Exel Alex Barth The formal roles (President, VP, etc.) will be determined by the new board during their first meeting, and will be announced shortly after that meeting.

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread stevea
I just want to emphasize that there are (at least) two separate but related issues here: 1) Whether the before or after style is preferred or more correct, 2) What a routing algorithm (potentially yet-to-be-coded or now-actually coded) does with either or both. Regarding 1), it appears

Re: [Talk-us] 2013-2014 OSM US Election Results

2013-10-15 Thread Steve Coast
Congrats to the new board! Steve On Oct 15, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: The election for 2013-2014 is complete and the new board consists of: Mele Sax-Barnett Kathleen Danielson Ian Dees Martijn van Exel Alex Barth The formal roles (President, VP,

Re: [Talk-us] 2013-2014 OSM US Election Results

2013-10-15 Thread Steven Johnson
Awesome. Congratulations to all. AFAIC, everyone is a winner in this election. Thanks to our election observers for helping out. SEJ -- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data. On Tue, Oct 15,

Re: [Talk-us] 2013-2014 OSM US Election Results

2013-10-15 Thread alyssa wright
agreed! congrats to a wonderful board and all who participated. it promises to be a great year! On Oct 15, 2013, at 2:22 PM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome. Congratulations to all. AFAIC, everyone is a winner in this election. Thanks to our election observers for

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Tod Fitch
People will map as they see fit and, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, it is not possible to correct all instances of all variations. That said, the wiki is replete with guidance on preferred tagging for various features so it is not out of line to work toward a preferred method of

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
Just to check, in the case of number 3, if a traffic signal was present at the above direction, would there have to be two traffic signal for the up-and-down two-way road? Saikrishna Arcot On Tue 15 Oct 2013 03:14:13 PM EDT, Tod Fitch wrote: People will map as they see fit and, as pointed out

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Tod Fitch
It would be tagged as described at http://wiki.openstreetmaps.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals#Tag_all_incoming_ways Tod -- Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity. Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.com wrote: Just to check, in the case of number 3, if a traffic signal was

[Talk-us] Highway classification questions

2013-10-15 Thread Tod Fitch
ref: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/California#Highway_types and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging Specific questions: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.38554/-122.05217 Should Central Expressway be marked as primary rather than trunk at this point? The

Re: [Talk-us] Highway classification questions

2013-10-15 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/15/13 7:29 PM, Tod Fitch wrote: ref: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/California#Highway_types and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging Specific questions: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.38554/-122.05217 Should Central Expressway be marked as

Re: [Talk-us] Highway classification questions

2013-10-15 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2013-10-15 16:29 -0700, Tod Fitch wrote: ref: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/California#Highway_types and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging Specific questions: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.38554/-122.05217 Should Central Expressway be

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-15 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/15/13 8:01 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas Defining an alt_name or loc_name of Las Vegas on each of the surrounding CDP boundaries/relations may help Nominatim geocode these cases better. But the CDPs are not part of the city (aside from any areas