Thanks, I'll do the changes as you suggested. Any idea why my newly created path looks different on the map then the one I connected it too (the one parallel to Vrouwvliet)? Because IRL, they look the same!
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Marc Gemis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Daan, > > first of all, Welcome & thanks for your first contribution. > > I've taken a quick look at it. It's OK in that sense that you will find > many bicycle paths that are mapped in this way, i.e. highway=path, > foot=yes, bicycle=yes. If there is a traffic sign that explicitly allows > bicycles, it might be better to use highway=cycleway. > > As for the name. I would never use Fietspad Dijle-Nekkerspoel, unless > there is a sign along the path with that name. You can compare it with the > E19, which might be called "the highway from Antwerp to Brussels; but you > will never see that on a map. > > You can also add "lit=yes/no", which I find interesting on cycleways, > since not all of them are lit. > > I'm not going to comment on the Vrouwvliet issue, as I'm not so familiar > with all the waterway tags and the conventions. Hopefully somebody else > will answer that one. > > happy mapping > > regards > > m > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Daan Bellefroid <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm a new mapper and added yesterday a new path based on GPS data I >> collected driving the path with my bike. >> >> I just would like that someone takes a look if I did it right? >> It is the path in Mechelen-Noord, parallel to the R6, going from the >> Dijle to the Vrouwvliet (Slachthuislaan). >> I called the path "Fietspad Dijle-Nekkerspoel" because there are arrows >> stating "Nekkerspoel" to the one direction and "Dijle" to the other. >> >> Did I put it there correctly? Are the tags correct? >> >> I made a link to an existing path following Vrouwvliet. Why is that in >> another coding than mine? Is it because the tags are different? >> >> Another question I have: the stream there is marked as different areas >> stating "lake" with no name. >> >> Can I change these into "stream" and naming them Vrouwvliet? >> >> I'm asking these questions because I want to construct and not destroy >> the map... >> >> Regards, >> Daan. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-be mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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