G'Day Cameron I never said I was mapping for a particular program or device. Garmin was just an example. I'm mapping for all programs and devices. As all programs or devices can render a loop way it just makes more since to do it that way. It doesn't matter what the tagging is or if it is removed. Any tom, dick or harry that uses that data knows straight way where the roundabout are don't they. In the case of Garmin GPS's they only support roundabouts as a way and not as a point. Pretty hard to edit a script if that's the case isn't.
Sean Cameron osm-mailing-lists-at-justcameron.com |OSM list| wrote: > Sean, > > We should not map for a renderer or for a particular use case. If > scripts which convert osm data to the garmin data format lose the > roundabout information, then the script should be edited to add a > roundabout when it encounters the mini_roundabout tag. > > ~Cameron > > 2008/12/13 Sean <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > I've read through all the post on this discussion so far and I totally > agree with Darrin. I also think all roundabouts including ones > paint on > the road should be drawn as a loop way. I see the discussion has been > about trying to define what a roundabout is. But no one has thought > about the end products that this data can be used for. There are many > programs and devices out on the market that when the OSM data is > converted into a format that that the program or device can use, that > the mini_roundabout tag is lost while being converted. It basically > turns that intersection into a four way intersection and you have no > idea that there is a roundabout at that intersection. A really good > example is all Garmin mapping GPS. All roundabouts HAVE TO be > drawn as > a loop way to show up on the Garmin GPS. I can't be 100% sure but I > would this would be true for most mapping GPS's. So what I'm > sayings is > you are better to draw a loop way for ALL roundabouts so that if > the tag > is lost while being converted to another format or load into another > program, any Tom, Dick or Harry can still tell there is still a > roundabout at that intersection. > > Sean > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
