Re: [Talk-us] access restriction, water only: How to tag?

2013-07-26 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 26.07.2013 um 14:17 schrieb Mike Thompson : > I haven't seen sac_scale used on an area, but it seems reasonable -1, it is clearly thought and defined for (osm-)highways and not for an area. There are usually several possibilities where to cross an area, especially if you include difficult

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

2013-06-12 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 12.06.2013 um 06:21 schrieb Serge Wroclawski : > Your reply really doesn't address what William is saying, which is > that neighbourhood boundaries are subjective. I think we all agree > that neighbourhoods are useful, but they're worse than political > boundaries in terms of being unsurveyab

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

2013-06-12 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 12.06.2013 um 03:06 schrieb Clifford Snow : > One reason for including boundaries is querying to determine what exists in a > neighborhood. Another is to see the result from a search using nominatim. A > single node doesn't really tell much of a story, while a boundary give a > better scop

Re: [Talk-us] Removing US Bicycle Route tags

2013-06-05 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 05.06.2013 um 19:20 schrieb Frederik Ramm : > The usual OSM approach would be that if a route is signposted, then it can be > mapped - if not, then not. Somehow the on-the-ground rule was extended to include what is verifiable on paper as well. See administrative borders for instance, the

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being "praised" for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 25/mag/2013 um 12:22 schrieb Paweł Paprota : > Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in the > internet? Yes, I noted this because of a misspelled street name, but it also works for correctly spelled ones, if you put osm to the search term you'll see them so