Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

On 23/10/2015 14:34, GerdP wrote: Andy Townsend wrote Now, as so many before, I try to find a good tag to express this. Using a line with only a note tag is no good idea as QA tools will not like them. I'd suggest that if a QA tool objects to that, it's a problem with that QA tool. :) Well,

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

Andy Townsend wrote >> Now, as so many before, I try to find a good tag to express this. >> Using a line with only a note tag is no good idea as QA tools >> will not like them. > > I'd suggest that if a QA tool objects to that, it's a problem with that > QA tool. :) Well, yes and no. When I

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

Hi Andy, okay, I'd be very happy to use only a note for them. My understanding of the JOSM warning was that there is some rule that a note is not enough and that I just didn't read that rule until now. Gerd Von: Andy Townsend

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

On 22/10/2015 11:18, Colin Smale wrote: On 2015-10-22 11:27, Andy Townsend wrote: I'd agree with that. I can think of more than a few examples of "the road/path used to go here, but now it doesn't", and even if the imagery gets updated, underlying GPS traces won't. Has anyone thought of a

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

On 22/10/2015 06:29, GerdP wrote: Hi all, I've contacted a few mappers and it seems that there is a need to keep some of the ways for the reason described by Mateusz below. I'd agree with that. I can think of more than a few examples of "the road/path used to go here, but now it doesn't",

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

On 2015-10-22 11:27, Andy Townsend wrote: > I'd agree with that. I can think of more than a few examples of "the > road/path used to go here, but now it doesn't", and even if the imagery gets > updated, underlying GPS traces won't. Has anyone thought of a way of limiting returned GPS

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

Andy Townsend wrote on 2015-10-22 12:46: On 22/10/2015 11:18, Colin Smale wrote: On 2015-10-22 11:27, Andy Townsend wrote: I'd agree with that. I can think of more than a few examples of "the road/path used to go here, but now it doesn't", and even if the imagery gets updated, underlying

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

Hi all, I've contacted a few mappers and it seems that there is a need to keep some of the ways for the reason described by Mateusz below. Now, as so many before, I try to find a good tag to express this. Using a line with only a note tag is no good idea as QA tools will not like them. IMHO the

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

Hi Hans, thanks for the offer. I still try to decide what to do with these elements. In some cases it is obvious that editors have invested time to document something, so I'd not want to simply delete their work. I guess I'll start to comment those changesets which introduced the unusual

[Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

Hi all, forgive me if this was discussed before: There seems to be a need to map highways which do not exist. I understand the idea that we map highway=proposed / highway=planned as this might be used to visualize a plan, I can also understand that we have tags like highway=dismantled and

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

Do you have any examples? On Oct 15, 2015 12:27 PM, "Mateusz Konieczny" wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:35:08 + > Gerd Petermann wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > forgive me if this was discussed before: > > There seems to be a need to map

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:35:08 + Gerd Petermann wrote: > Hi all, > > forgive me if this was discussed before: > There seems to be a need to map highways which do not exist. > I understand the idea that we map highway=proposed / highway=planned > as this might