On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Antony Pegg <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with most of this. > > One very useful thing I've found tho is the (off the top of my head) > tiger:name_type=aly > > seems all the alley's got imported as highway=residential - at least in my > area - so the tiger tag is very useful for doing a JOSM search for all > alleyways and changing them to highway=service, service=alley. Once I > figured that out it saved me hours upon hours of work and provided a marked > improvement to several town maps in my area
Yes, a tiger:name_type=Aly XAPI query is slightly more convenient than downloading all the streets and searching for name:aly. Of course there may be the occasional street named Foo Alley that's not actually an alley, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

