Re: [Tagging] tagging large intersections cross-road sections

2015-06-25 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:44:21PM +0300, Lauri Kytömaa wrote: > Three points here: > I thought the originally linked video said that they already detect and deal > with the short sections within intersections and they only tell the correct, > final, road name. So the problem in this discussion has

Re: [Tagging] tagging large intersections cross-road sections

2015-06-25 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 02:42:23PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > Am 24.06.2015 um 11:08 schrieb Florian Lohoff : > > > > motorway_link is not a different highway type - Its some attribute which > > slipped into the highway type. > > I don't agree. It might wor

Re: [Tagging] Concrete kerbs in highway

2015-06-25 Thread Clifford Snow
Going with the theme of lazy wins out, having to convert a way into a dual carriageway is a pain. That is why using the tag kerb=center would 1) tell routing engines that left turns are not permitted and 2) possibly render more accurately. Dual carriageways renders [1] as if there is median when in

Re: [Tagging] Concrete kerbs in highway

2015-06-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-06-25 17:38 GMT+02:00 Clifford Snow : > Going with the theme of lazy wins out, having to convert a way into a dual > carriageway is a pain. That is why using the tag kerb=center would 1) tell > routing engines that left turns are not permitted and 2) possibly render > more accurately. but

Re: [Tagging] Concrete kerbs in highway

2015-06-25 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > but this would only work on a road with no crossings (or all crossing on > both roads at the same spot)... Marin, I must be a little slow this morning, please elaborate. -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap:

Re: [Tagging] Concrete kerbs in highway

2015-06-25 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/25/15 11:52 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer > mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > but this would only work on a road with no crossings (or all > crossing on both roads at the same spot)... > > > Marin, > I must be a little slow

Re: [Tagging] Concrete kerbs in highway

2015-06-25 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > the issue, i think is that frequently there are highways that have raised > concrete barriers, but with frequent gaps. you end up needing to model > this one way or another. there is not really an easy way out. > True. Center kerbs are oft

Re: [Tagging] tagging large intersections cross-road sections

2015-06-25 Thread John Willis
> On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:33 PM, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > From a legal perspective they are not something different ;) Motorway > might be something Although it goes against the OSM model, all roads above tertiary in Japan follow their legal designation rather than actual conditions to conform