On 7/12/2016 3:44 AM, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 12/07/2016 08:42, Paul Norman wrote:
Rather than having sidewalk data available in a column, I instead with
a different highway value for "this road has a usable sidewalk". We
already have a plethora of highway values, so the extra work to
support isn't high, and has the advantage that you don't need to mess
about with the schema (though you do need to reload the database) if
anything changes:
https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob/master/style.lua#L258
Don't you quickly start needing to have many many values for your
highway column as you combine sidewalks, link status, cycleways, etc?
For me a sidewalk column is much easier to do than expand the highway
class values and it avoids users downstream of me having to deal with
sidewalks if they're not using them in their analysis or rendering.
My initial goal was to be able to render sidewalks on unclassified and
tertiary roads. Note that there are more values in that list than
you're probably expecting - that was what was found to be in the data
when I looked locally.
I also see you're treating cycleways as sidewalks. I'm planning on
handling them separately, which is another reason I'm using more columns.
From the readme of https://github.com/ClearTables/ClearTables it
sounds like you're trying to process OSM data as it actually exists,
not "as it ought to be tagged", which means you might have to do
something "clever" to detect poorly mapped examples like the one
above, perhaps based on proximity. I'd be interested to see what you
come up with...
I'm dealing with "tagging as it exists", which is slightly different
than "data as it exists", so I don't have to worry about data errors
like those disconnected ways. This is partially due to technical
constraints, but even without them I'm not sure if I'd handle that case.
It's also going to a PostGIS database so there's no notion of if two
linestrings are connected, only if they're touching.
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