Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Tagging Seamarks

2010-08-20 Thread Sam Vekemans
cool, im currently working on lining up those 60 garmin map marine features with osm tags with a googledocs chart, do you want to help? thanks, sam On 8/20/10, Mario Salvini wrote: > 2010/8/20 Christian Wagner > >> .. >> > >> Unfortunately I want both- OSeaM cannot show most of my safewater >

[Tagging] How to tag an unsigned bike lane?

2010-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Around here there are a few roads that have spaces striped as if they were bike lanes, but they're not actually marked as such, so they don't fall under the mandatory bike lane law ("shall ride in the lane marked for bicycle use"). But those cyclists who like bike lanes will see them as a good thin

Re: [Tagging] Is cycleway:right=lane necessary on a one-way street?

2010-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Pieren wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Nathan Edgars II > wrote: >> >> Oh, bleh. You're talking about a situation where a bike lane on one >> side of the road is two-way: >> >> http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/pedbike/05085/chapt15.cf

Re: [Tagging] Ways rendered on wrong layer (counter to the layer tag values)

2010-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Andrew Harvey wrote: > I'm not sure when to use the bridge tag. In this part of the map > http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/17/120570/78686.png there is a footway > which is at ground level at both ends, but significantly above the > water below in the middle, held u

Re: [Tagging] Is cycleway:right=lane necessary on a one-way street?

2010-08-20 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:37 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I don't think this is actually clear from the wiki: > "opposite_lane > The route is a lane, but bicycles may go in the direction opposite > of other traffic. Only applies where oneway=yes." > > > "opposite" and "opposite_lane" onl

Re: [Tagging] Tagging for streets with sharrows?

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 08/16/2010 04:06 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:27:30 -0400, Anthony wrote: > >> But it's not effectively the same thing. If it were, sharrows wouldn't >> have ever been invented. > > Not true, the old-style "BIKE ROUTE" signs no longer appear in the > current MUTCD (thus a

Re: [Tagging] Is cycleway:right=lane necessary on a one-way street?

2010-08-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/20 Steve Bennett : > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:32 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > wrote: >> but doesn't this not just reduce the bike traffic to the opposite >> direction? Would you say that the oneway direction is already >> implicit? > > cycleway=opposite_lane means travel in *both* the forward

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] collection/street relation: which one touse?

2010-08-20 Thread Mike N.
Aren't relations easily editable? But wait, you wouldn't actually have to edit it! The first mapper to create the way or to add a house number would create the relation, which, admittedly, may be a slightly harder task In JOSM with the address interpolation plugin, the associated street relat

Re: [Tagging] Ways rendered on wrong layer (counter to the layer tag values)

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Simone Saviolo wrote: > If you tagged the footway as a bridge, it's because it is suspended > over the water (you said it's being held up by pylons). Is the > motorway suspended too? Then you should tag it as a bridge. If it's > not, then maybe the footway becomes

Re: [Tagging] Ways rendered on wrong layer (counter to the layer tag values)

2010-08-20 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/8/20 Andrew Harvey : > I'm not sure when to use the bridge tag. In this part of the map > http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/17/120570/78686.png there is a footway > which is at ground level at both ends, but significantly above the > water below in the middle, held up by pylons. I tagged it with

[Tagging] Ways rendered on wrong layer (counter to the layer tag values)

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Harvey
I'm not sure when to use the bridge tag. In this part of the map http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/17/120570/78686.png there is a footway which is at ground level at both ends, but significantly above the water below in the middle, held up by pylons. I tagged it with bridge=yes, layer=1. Then there i

Re: [Tagging] Is cycleway:right=lane necessary on a one-way street?

2010-08-20 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > Oh, bleh. You're talking about a situation where a bike lane on one > side of the road is two-way: > > http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/pedbike/05085/chapt15.cfm#pra > I don't know how I'd tag that, but I'd certainly ad

Re: [Tagging] Non Proposed Features

2010-08-20 Thread Matthias Meißer
I added an hint on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:No_proposal explaining why a page had been labeled as no proposal. Matthias ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Is cycleway:right=lane necessary on a one-way street?

2010-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> I've seen this called a contraflow bike lane. The only difference >> between an actual contraflow bike lane and a one-way street that's >> two-way for bikes is a centerline, and we

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] collection/street relation: which one to use?

2010-08-20 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/8/20 Anthony : > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Simone Saviolo > wrote: >> 2010/8/19 Tobias Knerr : >>> On 19.08.2010 16:27, Simone Saviolo wrote: So, if the name of a street is changed for whatever reason, I have to go through the, maybe, several hundreds of house numbers on tha

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] collection/street relation: which one to use?

2010-08-20 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/8/19 Tobias Knerr : > On 19.08.2010 18:28, Tom Chance wrote: >> On 19 August 2010 16:54, Tobias Knerr > > wrote: >> >>     Basic address editing, however, requires more knowledge if implemented >>     using relations - which is bad, because editing addresses is one

Re: [Tagging] Is cycleway:right=lane necessary on a one-way street?

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > I've seen this called a contraflow bike lane. The only difference > between an actual contraflow bike lane and a one-way street that's > two-way for bikes is a centerline, and we don't normally tag whether a > street has a centerline. So I