Hi 1. What's happening with the Gauteng e-tolls? Is somebody going to add them to OSM?
2. Is the location of speed traps meant to be secret? Are we allowed to publish where they are in OSM? 3. How to tag gated suburbs? Is this right: "barrier=gate" and "access=no" for blocked off roads "barrier=lift_gate" (ie. boom) and "access=yes" for entrances 4. How to tag residential estates? The problems at the moment: * "highway=living_street" seems very wrong. That is an official road designation in some countries. I don't think we have them in SA. It should probably be "highway=residential". * "access=yes" for gates to residential estates. Very wrong: "yes" means that "the public has an official, legally-enshrined right of access." This is the case for gated suburbs, but residential estates are on private property and this is definitely not the case. * "access=destination" for gates and streets. Deceptive tag. Yes the streets inside an estate with multiple entrances can't be used for transit traffic, but it's more than that: you can't even go to a street as a destination without the owner's permission. The example they give for "access=destination" is customer parking lots. * internal roads are traced from aerial photography with "highway=residential" but with no access classification and no name. This appears as a public road with no name, which is not the case. Proposal: * If the estate is entered through a driveway (as opposed to a public road), then it's a nameless "highway=service", "service=driveway". * The entrance is "barrier=gate" for a gate, "barrier=lift_gate" for a boom, with "access=private" either way. * Every internal street and point of interest has "access=private". * Internal streets are usually "highway=residential", and might not have names, because unit numbers are often relative to the estate, not the street. * The estate's land area has "landuse=residential", "name=<The name of the estate>". This is also how it's been done in other countries, see explanation and example below: http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/4737/best-practices-for-applying-accessprivate http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=33.74281&lon=-117.76746&zoom=16&layers=M What do you think? Can I add this to the local tagging guidelines? Thank you Damjan _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
