If you will excuse the pun - yes, that is what I am proposing.
STEVE
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Miller on behalf of Peter Miller
Sent: Mon 3/31/2008 9:48 PM
To: Steve Chilton; 'Dave Stubbs'
Cc: 'Talk Openstreetmap'
Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass
Excellent. Thanks Steve.
So how should a proposed road be tagged? Should it be highway=proposed
Proposed=trunk Name=foo bypass?
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Chilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 31 March 2008 20:53
> To: Dave Stubbs; Peter Miller
> Cc: Talk Openstreetmap
> Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass
>
> In an attempt to avoid this kind of "false tagging for rendering" I
have a
> submitted an addition to the mapnik style tonight.
> It will render highway=construction or highway=proposed from z12
upwards.
> It will also render a text label (based on name=) for z13 upwards.
> Jamie's more sophisticated suggestions make sense but are not easily
to
> render at the moment. Perhaps we can work towards that time-based
approach
> later.
> For now it would make a lot of sense for people to revisit roads under
> construction they have tagged and follow this suggested scheme:
> highway=construction
> construction=foo (motorway, trunk, primary or whatever - if known)
> name=Foo bypass, due to open Dec 08 (or whatever)
>
> PS: I haven't looked at the file but hope this doesn't throw
osmarender
> rules out, which I know picks something up to render construction
>
> Cheers
> STEVE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dave Stubbs
> Sent: Mon 3/31/2008 6:03 PM
> To: Peter Miller
> Cc: Talk Openstreetmap
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed
> bypass
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Peter Miller
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for that Robert. A few other questions:
> >
> > 1) How does one tag something that is being considered
seriously
> (such as
> > the Mottram Tintwistle bypass), but which may well never get
> built? I think
> > I will just put the estimated build date given by the
highways
> agency for
> > now. (I will also continue to use the tunnel trick to get it
to
> render in
> > the mean time).
>
>
> By "tunnel trick" I presume that you mean tag it as a tunnel so
that
> it turns up dotted, despite not being a tunnel, nor ever will
be a
> tunnel?
>
> That's not a trick, that's a dirty, dirty hack and should be
stomped
> on hard.
>
> If you want proposed roads to show up dotted then fix the
renderer,
> don't engage in phantom tagging.
>
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