Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery
Am 02.06.2009 07:37, Ed Loach: FWIW I personally think highway=road is not generally of much use in 90% of cases. Whether you're tracing from Yahoo or NPE or whatever, you can very often work out what highway value the road should have. Yes, but if highway=road were in the list, people might read up on what it meant so that when adding all those country lanes they don't tag every single one as tertiary so as not to say that they've not been classified (i.e. they avoid the use of unclassified, rather than avoid the use of road). If I get bored at some point I might look at adding it to the presets if no-one has already. Ed I've added it to the presets as unknown road on the bottom of the list. Claudius ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery
I've been enjoying sketching/tracing from Yahoo aerial imagery in Potlatch (hey some people knit or do crosswords, I find _this_ relaxing!). I recently discovered that the default 'highway' tag for roads taken from imagery is highway=road (_not_ highway=unclassified as would seem logical!) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#How_to_sketch.3F If that is the case, why does Potlatch not offer highway=road as one of its presents, under the little car icon? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery
Joe Richards wrote: I've been enjoying sketching/tracing from Yahoo aerial imagery in Potlatch (hey some people knit or do crosswords, I find _this_ relaxing!). I recently discovered that the default 'highway' tag for roads taken from imagery is highway=road (_not_ highway=unclassified as would seem logical!) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#How_to_sketch.3F If that is the case, why does Potlatch not offer highway=road as one of its presents, under the little car icon? You're thinking of the wrong unclassified. Unclassified here does not mean the road in OSM is not classified, or does not have a better designation, it means that it is designated as unclassified (that is: not motorway, primary, secondary, tertiaty) in the real world. The OSM equivalent of a road for which the correct designation is not know is road. So Potlatch does it as it should. See also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified Regards, Maarten ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery
Hi, Maarten Deen wrote: You're thinking of the wrong unclassified. Unclassified here does not mean the road in OSM is not classified, or does not have a better designation, it means that it is designated as unclassified I wonder what would happen if there was a military road the existence of which would have to remain secret. Would that then be a classified unclassified road, and under what circumstances could it become declassified? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery
Joe Richards wrote: If that is the case, why does Potlatch not offer highway=road as one of its presents, under the little car icon? Because I don't really keep up with the ever-changing tagging discussions - life's too short. Anyone with svn access can augment the Potlatch preset/autocomplete files, they're all in easy-to-understand text: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port/config/potlatch/ I do however reserve the right, should you add smoothness=very_horrible, to remove it again, and additionally to come round to your house and kill you. FWIW I personally think highway=road is not generally of much use in 90% of cases. Whether you're tracing from Yahoo or NPE or whatever, you can very often work out what highway value the road should have. Certainly, if it were to be added to the preset menu, it'd need to be with a very clear description of what it's intended for - road, unsure of type or something like that. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Potlatch-and-sketching-from-aerial-imagery-tp23823385p23823663.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery
FWIW I personally think highway=road is not generally of much use in 90% of cases. Whether you're tracing from Yahoo or NPE or whatever, you can very often work out what highway value the road should have. Yes, but if highway=road were in the list, people might read up on what it meant so that when adding all those country lanes they don't tag every single one as tertiary so as not to say that they've not been classified (i.e. they avoid the use of unclassified, rather than avoid the use of road). If I get bored at some point I might look at adding it to the presets if no-one has already. Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
