Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/5/18 Anthony : > The key word there, I think, is *intersections*.  A roundabout should > be an intersection, not a bunch of separate intersections.  If you're > going to expand it to the point where you have traffic lights or stop > signs for people who are already in the "roundabout", it's no

Re: [Tagging] Tagging: minimum required tags

2012-05-18 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
... and if you identify an entrance it's a good idea to tag is as such: I've understood that entrance=yes is preferred over building=entrance (as that can be used for entrances to parks, parking lots, lots in general etc entrances that are not entrances to buildings. Right/wrong? -Jaakko On Fri,

Re: [Tagging] (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/18/2012 9:15 AM, Anthony wrote: 2012/5/18 Nathan Edgars II: If anyone doubts that existing tagging does not match the wiki, see the following examples, all tagged as junction=roundabout by editors other than me: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/5677217 http://www.openstreetmap.org/br

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Colin Smale
On 18/05/2012 17:31, Martin Vonwald (Imagic) wrote: Am 18.05.2012 um 16:32 schrieb Tobias Johansson: Are we talking about this?http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uvl-p3eVBeM/Tr8xUuhRYbI/Iho/NJZGrhCH6yk/s400/53242_1431458077448_1562786087_30891073_4275686_o.jpg If would think this is a Magic Ro

[Tagging] Centre for Media Services

2012-05-18 Thread Gerhard Hermanns
Hi, I'd like to tag a service centre at a university. They call themself the "Centre for Information and Media Services" ("Zentrum für Informations- und Mediendienste" in German) and provide all kind of services, like maintenance of computer infrastructure, data processing, software administr

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Vonwald (Imagic)
Am 18.05.2012 um 16:32 schrieb Tobias Johansson : >> Are we talking about >> this?http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uvl-p3eVBeM/Tr8xUuhRYbI/Iho/NJZGrhCH6yk/s400/53242_1431458077448_1562786087_30891073_4275686_o.jpg >> >> If would think this is a Magic Roundabout. >> > > Thats.. Cool :D sort of

Re: [Tagging] Tagging: minimum required tags

2012-05-18 Thread Tobias Johansson
Yes most corner houses in sweden have two addresses. Have myself seen one with three. And to repeat myself "hadn't thought about that" :) Best Regards Thod 2012/5/18 Ilpo Järvinen : > On Fri, 18 May 2012, Tobias Johansson wrote: > >> I see your point concerning you don't have to do it that way. B

Re: [Tagging] Tagging: minimum required tags

2012-05-18 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Tobias Johansson wrote: > I see your point concerning you don't have to do it that way. But I > don't really se any reason for not doing it that way? And if it makes > it simpler? > > But I have no big objection for what you say. I myself have mapped a > lot of houses the way

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Tobias Johansson
I just thought I would show a special roundabout from my neighborhood http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/8110827 Before anyone says this isn't a roundabout check out the sign http://maps.google.se/maps?hl=sv&ll=57.69702,11.987972&spn=0.001194,0.002411&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=57.697027,11.987767&

Re: [Tagging] Turning circle with island or turning loop (was Re: (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Vonwald
Am 18.05.2012 um 16:11 schrieb Josh Doe : > While the "Possible misinterpretations" section is great, I think most > people will find it to be too long and won't read it. I think it might > belong on a separate page rather than on one tag page or on all (via a > template). I would really like to a

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Tobias Johansson
2012/5/18 Martin Vonwald : > Are we talking about > this?http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uvl-p3eVBeM/Tr8xUuhRYbI/Iho/NJZGrhCH6yk/s400/53242_1431458077448_1562786087_30891073_4275686_o.jpg > > If would think this is a Magic Roundabout. > Thats.. Cool :D sort of two roundabouts (or traffic circel

Re: [Tagging] Tagging: minimum required tags

2012-05-18 Thread Tobias Johansson
I see your point concerning you don't have to do it that way. But I don't really se any reason for not doing it that way? And if it makes it simpler? But I have no big objection for what you say. I myself have mapped a lot of houses the way you stated before I saw some other presentation Lulu-Ann

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Vonwald
Are we talking about this?http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uvl-p3eVBeM/Tr8xUuhRYbI/Iho/NJZGrhCH6yk/s400/53242_1431458077448_1562786087_30891073_4275686_o.jpg If would think this is a Magic Roundabout. Practical and useful tagging of such creations is some kind of art, IMO. Martin Am 18.05.20

Re: [Tagging] Turning circle with island or turning loop (was Re: (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Josh Doe
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Martin Vonwald wrote: > 2012/5/18 Josh Doe : >> I've created a wiki page for highway=turning_loop: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dturning_loop > > Thanks for that. Do you think it would be a good idea to put the > section "Possible misinterpret

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Anthony
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/18948794 (Persiaran Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Putrajaya) This is being referred to by some as "the world's largest roundabout". Does it qualify, in terms of osm tags? Seems to be more of a roundabout than many of those New Jersey traffic circles.

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Mann
The distinction in the UK is between a roundabout and a gyratory. Roundabouts can have signals, but they tend to be linked so that it flows, and if you're going straight ahead, you won't normally stop once you're on the roundabout. Roundabouts don't generally have buildings in the middle, or pedest

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Anthony
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Toby Murray wrote: >> junction=roundabout should not care about right-of-way. Trying to >> enforce this in the map is going to be impossible anyway because it is >> such a technicality. And I'm not sure what value

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Anthony
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Toby Murray wrote: > junction=roundabout should not care about right-of-way. Trying to > enforce this in the map is going to be impossible anyway because it is > such a technicality. And I'm not sure what value is added by inventing > another tag for edge cases tha

Re: [Tagging] Tagging: minimum required tags

2012-05-18 Thread Tobias Knerr
Tobias Johansson wrote: And preferbly the nodes with addresses should correspond to an entrence of the building. Some reasons for this, I add a .pdf with some: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Housenumbers.pdf May I ask you to avoid quoting that PDF? It only presents Lulu-Ann's persona

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/5/18 Steve Doerr : > Thanks. I guess I edited an old version or something? Sorry about that. Intentions were good. Mistakes happens. No problem :-) ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Steve Doerr
Thanks. I guess I edited an old version or something? Sorry about that. On 18/05/2012 14:23, Martin Vonwald wrote: I reverted to the previous version and added a note about void in case of elevated roads. 2012/5/18 Martin Vonwald: Ahm - you completely screwed the article :-S 2012/5/18 Steve D

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Vonwald
I reverted to the previous version and added a note about void in case of elevated roads. 2012/5/18 Martin Vonwald : > Ahm - you completely screwed the article :-S > > 2012/5/18 Steve Doerr : >> On 18/05/2012 13:45, Volker Schmidt wrote: >>> >>> >>> We should replace "island" with "island  or obst

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Vonwald
Ahm - you completely screwed the article :-S 2012/5/18 Steve Doerr : > On 18/05/2012 13:45, Volker Schmidt wrote: >> >> >> We should replace "island" with "island  or obstacle" or something to that >> effect. > > > I've changed it to 'an island or a void'.

Re: [Tagging] (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Anthony
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2012/5/18 Nathan Edgars II : >> If anyone doubts that existing tagging does not match the wiki, see the >> following examples, all tagged as junction=roundabout by editors other than >> me: >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/567

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Steve Doerr
On 18/05/2012 13:45, Volker Schmidt wrote: We should replace "island" with "island or obstacle" or something to that effect. I've changed it to 'an island or a void'. -- Steve ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openst

Re: [Tagging] Turning circle with island or turning loop (was Re: (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/5/18 Josh Doe : > I've created a wiki page for highway=turning_loop: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dturning_loop Thanks for that. Do you think it would be a good idea to put the section "Possible misinterpretations" also into this article? If so, I would move the text into

Re: [Tagging] Turning circle with island or turning loop (was Re: (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Josh Doe wrote: > I better not get on my soapbox about how we need the > OSM.org stylesheet to be located on GitHub, and to use > Carto so people can use TileMill for designing. I don't think anyone disagrees with you. It's just that soapboxes don't in themselves produce code. Why not start a pr

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Volker Schmidt
Correct, Steve. We should replace "island" with "island or obstacle" or something to that effect. Volker On 18 May 2012 13:00, Steve Doerr wrote: > On 18/05/2012 10:32, Volker Schmidt wrote: > > >- > >a roundabout is a road layout where traffic goes around a central >island. At p

Re: [Tagging] Turning circle with island or turning loop (was Re: (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Josh Doe wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Martin Vonwald wrote: >> I added highway=turning_loop to the last example and noted, that it is >> under discussion right now. > > I've changed all my junction=roundabout + note=turning_loop to be > highway=turni

Re: [Tagging] Tagging: minimum required tags

2012-05-18 Thread aighes
Hi, there are some arguments in the pdf, which aren't any problem anymore. There are algorithms, which copy information from a closed way to a specific node of this closed way (eg. in mkgmap). The advantage of this is, that the router can select the entrance-node, which is best for his users.

Re: [Tagging] Tagging: minimum required tags

2012-05-18 Thread Tobias Johansson
And preferbly the nodes with addresses should correspond to an entrence of the building. Some reasons for this, I add a .pdf with some: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Housenumbers.pdf Best Regards Thod 2012/5/18 Martin Koppenhoefer : > 2012/5/18 Stefano Fraccaro : >> add tag addr:housen

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Steve Doerr
On 18/05/2012 10:32, Volker Schmidt wrote: * a roundabout is a road layout where traffic goes around a central island. At present a roundabout needs to be drawn as a circular way, not as a node. Actually (and this has been inaccurate in the wiki from the year dot), a roundabou

Re: [Tagging] Tagging: minimum required tags

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/5/18 Stefano Fraccaro : > add tag addr:housenumber usually (?) we also add the tag addr:street as this might not always be obvious. (Many mappers add the full set of address-tags to every address). If you use presets with autocompletion (and preselected values) or copy+paste this is less work

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Errington wrote: > [P2 patches] > Assuming it is a desirable thing, how do we make it happen? You'll have to excuse this for being a glib answer but - essentially, someone needs to write the code. The ideal situation is if you, or someone else who wants to see the feature, are sufficiently

[Tagging] Tagging: minimum required tags

2012-05-18 Thread Stefano Fraccaro
Hi, I have started a project with a school to map some objects in our city (for example, house numbers). There is a way to standardize this process, at least for some objects? I'm a newbie and I ask every time how to tag a new type of objects... and if I look at other similar objects, I see

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Vonwald
>> What I am arriving at is that we need a new node “roundabout” with a >> mandatory size parameter of some kind. The distinction between the present >> “mini_roundabout” and a small roundabout would no longer be relevant. > Actually it would become very relevant: a router for large veicles > would

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/5/18 Andrew Errington : > given to a very specific thing in the UK.  What we need is clarification in > the Wiki and maybe language-specific or country specific terms.  For example, > a list of countries where mini-roundabouts never appear you can never be sure. They now appear in many count

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Volker Schmidt
> > Actually it would become very relevant: a router for large veicles > would know that it can use "large" roundabouts and mini-roundabouts, > but not roundabouts tagged as small. > > -- > Elena ``of Valhalla'' You have a point there. So the conclusion needs to be that we need all three categori

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2012-05-18 at 11:32:32 +0200, Volker Schmidt wrote: > So, if we look at it from the routing point of view it looks to me that we > do not need to distinguish between a mini-roundabout and a small > roundabout, but what we seem to need is a way to indicate the size of the > roundabout in order to

Re: [Tagging] proposing a page on the wiki: "tag names do not always correspond to their definitions"

2012-05-18 Thread Tobias Johansson
http://vimeo.com/14776099 A video from SOTM 2010 regarding this (sort of). And I think he makes a lot of good points. But maybe OSM don't need/isn't ready for something like this yet. I think that we need to get the licens stuff done first and then have a little bit of a cool down period before we

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 18 May 2012 16:38:09 Martin Vonwald wrote: > > Do you have any suggestion how to change the presets for > mini-roundabouts? The term "mini-roundabout" is very misleading so we > need some very good, crystal clear and short description for it. Any > idea is very welcomed! I think the term '

Re: [Tagging] (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/5/18 Nathan Edgars II : > If anyone doubts that existing tagging does not match the wiki, see the > following examples, all tagged as junction=roundabout by editors other than > me: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/5677217 > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9080282 > http://www

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 18 May 2012 18:06:54 Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Andrew Errington wrote: > > It's easy to edit the wiki. It's easy for Potlatch and JOSM > > developers to edit the software to do the Right Thing. > > How do we make this happen? > > I like your "it's easy" statement, and look forward to you

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Volker Schmidt
At the risk that we are going in circles on this argument. Let us try to figure out what the needs are. What we have (in theory) at present is - a roundabout is a road layout where traffic goes around a central island. At present a roundabout needs to be drawn as a circular way, not as

Re: [Tagging] (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/5/17 Nathan Edgars II : > Edit wars are what happens when someone ignores objections that have been > raised and decides to arbitrarily define the existing tagging in the > database as wrong. There will always be errors in the database, but if we redefine features every time someone has abus

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: > The big missing thing here is support for polygon-based > presets in P2. ...by which I mean "presets that only show up, or that appear differently, depending on whether your current editing location is within a certain polygon" - sorry, should have made that clearer. c

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Errington wrote: > It's easy to edit the wiki. It's easy for Potlatch and JOSM > developers to edit the software to do the Right Thing. > How do we make this happen? I like your "it's easy" statement, and look forward to you publishing details of where one can get the 40-hour day which w

Re: [Tagging] (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/5/18 Tobias Johansson : > You understand me correctly. Or maybe a text something similar to this: > "This picture shows a round place with a traversable island in the > middle, but this is > neither a mini-roundabout nor a roundabout, but instead a turning > circle, which allows large vehicles

Re: [Tagging] (Mini)Roundabout: examples

2012-05-18 Thread Tobias Johansson
You understand me correctly. Or maybe a text something similar to this: "This picture shows a round place with a traversable island in the middle, but this is neither a mini-roundabout nor a roundabout, but instead a turning circle, which allows large vehicles to turn around. Not saying that all tu

Re: [Tagging] Another reset on roundabouts

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Vonwald
Good morning Toby, You correctly identified a few of our problems. At first let's have a look on a finding of Andrew Chadwick about the usage of highway=mini_roundabouts a few days ago: ___ For a random sampling of 100 nodes tagged highway=mini_roundabout from