Re: [OSM-talk] GPStogo is go!
Cool. Does the Foundation's status as a UK registered limited company preclude these donations benefitting from Gift Aid http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/charities/gift-aid.htm ? - Dan ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] South Downs Way is now a route relation
I've recently finished collecting all the different bits of the South Downs Way into a large route relation: http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/relation/5881 . I've tagged the bicyclist's route rather than the walker's route - there are at least 4 places to my knowledge where it divides (even going so far as to have separate horse, bicycle and foot sections through the Queen Elizabeth Country Park). Unfortunately I didn't get it all done before the most recent update of the cycle map, but it should appear next time 'round: http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/?zoom=10lat=6589695.19199lon=-50296.19283layers=B00 I've tagged it as per the guidelines on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Routes#Cycle_Routes_in_Use and http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/cycle-info/ The entire relation is tagged with the regional cycle route reference (89) and I've removed the tag from any members (this wasn't quite as simple as removing any rcn_ref or ref as that would have affected A and B roads and other RCN routes (i.e. 90)). I've also removed the South Downs Way name from a few unclassified/tertiary/higher-order highways - I considered removing it from bridleways and byways but that would be detract from the normal mapnik and osmarendered layers, at least until they display routes with names. I'm not sure how to approach the separate walker/rider sections: either collect together only the sections that differ, or make three large, almost identical relations that span the entire SDW from the perspective of walker, horse-rider and cyclist. Suggestions and complaints welcome ;) - Dan (Norky) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions
in the UK some main A roads have single lane passing places and 10 MPH speed limits while others are much higher quality than most motorways. Are these not edge cases? Any general case model of classification will fail at the edge cases. No classification system will map cleanly onto the real world, where there are always extremes. The current model is simple, and allows for extra tags to describe a road that differs from what the highway= tag might lead one to expect. (primary road with low bridges or narrow lanes, secondary road with dual carriageway). With our current model, we can reasonably assume for any country that a road tagged highway=motorway is of higher quality than trunk primary secondary etc. We can make assumptions for each different country or even region that a given tag will specify a higher or lower quality than in another country i.e. you don't go from Northern France to Iceland expecting highway=primary roads to be of the same quality. But the principle that one highway type is better than another, *in* *general*, is true everywhere. In the UK, in general, the administrative classifications Motorway green-signed A-road white-signed A-road B road unclassified road - so these reasonably map to motorway, trunk, primary etc. The current model is simple, and *generally* does not surprise the user. The guiding principles of OSM. - Dan ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
