Re: [Talk-us] Minimum standards for motorways?

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On 01/03/2011 08:33 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Paul Johnson 
 baloo-PVOPTusIyP/sroww+9z...@public.gmane.org wrote:
 On 01/03/2011 05:14 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
 On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Paul Johnson 
 baloo-PVOPTusIyP/sroww+9z...@public.gmane.org wrote:
 On 01/01/2011 09:45 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
 Yes - Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct. It seems like a clear motorway to
 me, but a local has tagged it as trunk.

 Alaska has intersections on at least one of it's three decks, though.

 The lower level is Alaskan Way, a surface street. Above it are two
 levels of Alaskan Way Viaduct, one in each direction. It's the second
 and third levels I'm talking about here.

 Given that ramps into and out of the viaduct hit at nearly-right angles
 from out between buildings with no merging room, I'm not sure they
 really qualify as what one would expect in motorway quality ramps.
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeGUSMssl7kt=0m15s
 There's not much merging room (no worse than on many Interstates), but
 it's nowhere near a right angle.

I'm familiar with the ramp, the tightness of the corner and the space in
which to merge is comparable to your standard corner-cuts on major
boulevards.  Unless we're actually going to suggest that 71st and
Memorial are both motorways...

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.060853lon=-95.886224zoom=18layers=M



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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On 01/03/2011 10:08 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:

 Also, is it now correct to not tag (network, ref) the individual ways that
 are part of a route relation? What about name? Is it correct to remove
 those existing tags from the ways (and ensure they are on the relation)? I'm
 not talking about a large-scale bot update, but as long as I'm editing them
 for some other reason anyway.
 
 No, it's not correct to remove refs from ways.

I really would like to hear wider input on this, still, as it really
doesn't make sense to waste the way's ref tag for refs that don't belong
to the way, but the route that uses the way...



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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On 01/03/2011 09:52 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:
 At 2011-01-02 19:46, Paul Johnson wrote:
 On 01/01/2011 11:55 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
  I've been adding more highway shields to the shield renderer.  Most
  recently I've added a shield for Historic Route 66.
 
 
 http://weait.com:8080/map/shield.html?lat=40.36679lon=-89.10653zoom=16layers=BTF

 
 Cool. Shouldn't the relation be tagged:
 
 network=US:US
 ref=66
 modifier=HISTORIC

Technically, probably shouldn't exist, since US-66 hasn't existed since
sometime in the late 1980s and it's using the recreational brown signs
today.  Given the number of times US-66's route has changed, I'm not
sure it even makes sense to use relations for this without qualifying
the era.

 according to
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging ?
 
 Also, is it now correct to not tag (network, ref) the individual way
 that are part of a route relation? What about name? Is it correct to
 remove those existing tags from the ways (and ensure they are on the
 relation)? I'm not talking about a large-scale bot update, but as long
 as I'm editing them for some other reason anyway.
 
 
 Eh, OK-66 and Old US-66 and USBR-66 are all in my neighborhood.
 
 What is USBR-66?

US Bike Route.  I'm thinking Oklahoma jumped the gun on posting it as
such since as far as I can tell, only 1 and 76 exist so far in that
network (and Oklahoma's not even using the right signs for that).



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Re: [Talk-us] Minimum standards for motorways?

2011-01-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
 On 01/03/2011 08:33 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeGUSMssl7kt=0m15s
 There's not much merging room (no worse than on many Interstates), but
 it's nowhere near a right angle.

 I'm familiar with the ramp, the tightness of the corner and the space in
 which to merge is comparable to your standard corner-cuts on major
 boulevards.  Unless we're actually going to suggest that 71st and
 Memorial are both motorways...

 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.060853lon=-95.886224zoom=18layers=M

I think you just admitted defeat.
People, look at his example. He posted two surface streets with cross
traffic (and presumably unlimited access from adjacent properties).

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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Mike N.

No, it's not correct to remove refs from ways.


I really would like to hear wider input on this, still, as it really
doesn't make sense to waste the way's ref tag for refs that don't belong
to the way, but the route that uses the way...


 I agree - it's premature to redefine the usage of ref until a number of 
renderers are getting route information from other sources such as the 
relation.


[ Whatever happened to the discussion on highway tagging consensus?  Is 
it happening on the Wiki now?   I thought there was enough information to 
move toward a consensus but I couldn't follow it all on mailing list 
messages. ]





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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Welty

On 1/4/11 3:18 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:

On 01/03/2011 10:08 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:


Also, is it now correct to not tag (network, ref) the individual ways that
are part of a route relation? What about name? Is it correct to remove
those existing tags from the ways (and ensure they are on the relation)? I'm
not talking about a large-scale bot update, but as long as I'm editing them
for some other reason anyway.

No, it's not correct to remove refs from ways.

I really would like to hear wider input on this, still, as it really
doesn't make sense to waste the way's ref tag for refs that don't belong
to the way, but the route that uses the way...


rendering engines haven't, by and large, shifted over to using ref tags
on the relations. while i think they should, i also don't think we ought to
cause the massive level of breakage that would ensue if they just got
removed.

richard


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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Alan Mintz

At 2011-01-04 00:16, Paul Johnson wrote:

On 01/03/2011 09:52 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:
 network=US:US
 ref=66
 modifier=HISTORIC

Technically, probably shouldn't exist, since US-66 hasn't existed since
sometime in the late 1980s and it's using the recreational brown signs
today.  Given the number of times US-66's route has changed, I'm not
sure it even makes sense to use relations for this without qualifying
the era.


There seems to have been some sort of co-ordinated effort because we have 
those signs in CA, too. Along much of the route along the San Gabriel 
mountains foothills (Huntington, Alosta, Foothill Blvds), there are these 
signs: 
https://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/DSCQ2464.CA_US66_Historic.small.jpg?attredirects=0 
. The eastern portion of this (from ~San Dimas to San Bernardino) is 
currently CA-66, and may be occasionally signed that way (though I can't 
seem to put my finger on one at the moment).


In Monrovia, they've signed it with the old-style US-66 with a CA on it: 
https://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/DSCQ2440.CA_US66.small.jpg?attredirects=0 
, even though it is not part of CA-66 and US-66 no longer exists.


Glendora actually changed the name of Foothill Blvd to Route 66 and 
signed it this way: 
https://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/DSCQ2662.Route_66_Street.small.jpg?attredirects=0


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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Phil! Gold
* Mike N. nice...@att.net [2011-01-04 06:58 -0500]:
 No, it's not correct to remove refs from ways.
 
 I really would like to hear wider input on this
 
  I agree - it's premature to redefine the usage of ref until a
 number of renderers are getting route information from other sources
 such as the relation.

I also agree with NE2.  The current OSM standard is to look at way refs to
get the routes they belong to.

 [ Whatever happened to the discussion on highway tagging
 consensus?  Is it happening on the Wiki now?   I thought there was
 enough information to move toward a consensus but I couldn't follow
 it all on mailing list messages. ]

There was rough consensus that the current approach is more or less right,
but disagreement on several specifics.  Richard Weait suggested that
further discussion probably wouldn't accomplish much without a sample
implementation, so I've (in my copious free time, sigh) been working on
some improvements to the rendering chain, including some modifications to
osm2pgsql.  I'm not sure when I'll have something reasonably complete, but
once I do, I plan to start the discussion again with my code as a
reference point.

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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:

 There was rough consensus that the current approach is more or less right,
 but disagreement on several specifics.  Richard Weait suggested that
 further discussion probably wouldn't accomplish much without a sample
 implementation, so I've (in my copious free time, sigh) been working on
 some improvements to the rendering chain, including some modifications to
 osm2pgsql.  I'm not sure when I'll have something reasonably complete, but
 once I do, I plan to start the discussion again with my code as a
 reference point.


What changes to osm2pgsql are you making? As far as I remember it already
creates 1 long linestring for contiguous elements of a route relation and
puts the relation's ref tags on that linestring. We only need to modify the
mapnik style sheets to get them to use SVG shields (so we can put the value
of the ref in the empty slot of the SVG shield).

Also, rweait has an example implementation floating around somewhere. I'm
not sure how much work he had to do to get it to work, but it came up pretty
quick after the discussion started.
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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Phil! Gold
* Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com [2011-01-04 09:36 -0600]:
 What changes to osm2pgsql are you making?

In my opinion, any approach has to be backwards compatible with having ref
tags on ways, if only because it's worked so well in Europe.  Thus, I want
to be able to tell whether a given way is a member of a route relation
(and render its ref tag the old way if it isn't), so I'm adding a table
to do joins between relations and their members.

 Also, rweait has an example implementation floating around somewhere. I'm
 not sure how much work he had to do to get it to work, but it came up pretty
 quick after the discussion started.

If I recall correctly, Richard's rendering completely abandons the old
rendering style, which I don't want to do.

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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:

 If I recall correctly, Richard's rendering completely abandons the old
 rendering style, which I don't want to do.

Then let me make this point absolutely clear.  Don't look at the
background layer.  It doesn't matter at all.  Look at the shield
overlay.  The shield overlay could be added to any rendering layer.

Here you go.  The shield layer on top of OSM's default mapnik rendering.

http://weait.com:8080/map/shield2.html?zoom=10lat=43.04117lon=-78.92749layers=0BTT

Now you can switch backgrounds and switch the shield layer on and off
to see what's included in the shield layer.

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Re: [Talk-us] NY: replacing county borders

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Welty

On 1/3/11 8:42 PM, Richard Welty wrote:

On 1/3/11 8:11 PM, Michal Migurski wrote:


Sounds like a sane way forward to me. Are you using the new 2010 
files that they're slowly releasing? Do you plan to keep all the FIPS 
info as you go?



i haven't yet seen 2010 boundary files of any sort yet. i'd certainly
prefer to use the, but have no idea what sort of timeline the census
bureau is working to.

i looked a little further. i see tiger 2010 shp files for much (perhaps all)
of NY now, but the extracts of boundaries have not been updated for
any states. i would imagine they are going to finish all the shp files for
all the states before they look at the extracts of borders. the plan for
tiger (according to their web page) is to finish all the shp files by 
February.


so i'm going to kill time by making this code more general, so that it can
handle all the boundary extracts that are likely to be wanted (states,
counties, incorporated places with legit boundaries) and put the code
in a state where it can potentially be given away.

i also, from looking at some of the shp files for Rensselaer County NY,
think that anyone interested in doing tiger 2010 imports/replacements
really needs to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the data, both
old and new before pulling the trigger on an import.

richard


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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Phil! Gold
* Richard Weait rich...@weait.com [2011-01-04 11:49 -0500]:
 On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
  If I recall correctly, Richard's rendering completely abandons the old
  rendering style, which I don't want to do.
 
 Then let me make this point absolutely clear.  Don't look at the
 background layer.  It doesn't matter at all.  Look at the shield
 overlay.  The shield overlay could be added to any rendering layer.

What I want, however, is to mix the two styles, but in a different way
than overlaying them.  I want to suppress the old shields if and only if
there's a route relation.  That's not a disparagement of your rendering;
it's the answer to Ian's question about my changes to osm2pgsql.

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Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Alex Mauer

On 01/04/2011 10:49 AM, Richard Weait wrote:

Then let me make this point absolutely clear.  Don't look at the
background layer.  It doesn't matter at all.  Look at the shield
overlay.  The shield overlay could be added to any rendering layer.


Not sure if you’re looking for commentary on the shield overlay in 
general, but it seems like it has some problems.  Take a look at 
I-39/US-51 here[1].  Only one shield for I-39 until you scroll all the 
way south to Bloomington, IL.


I don’t know if that’s because it’s prioritizing US shields over 
interstate shields or what, but it should show both at equal frequency. 
 It also seems like there are way too many US-51 shields.


I assume it’s not expected to display state routes, at least not yet.

I’d give the shields a black outline rather than putting them on a solid 
black box.


Other than that it looks great.

—Alex Mauer “hawke”

1. 
http://weait.com:8080/map/shield2.html?zoom=9lat=44.90346lon=-89.61928layers=0BTT



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