Christoph Böhme christ...@b3e.net wrote:
Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com schrieb:
I am also aware that there is a 50K place gazetteer sitting there
untouched - last week I was adding villages in Norfolk by hand and
the data is sitting available in NPTG.
I taught myself XSLT at
2009/7/30 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org:
Pavel Zubkou wrote:
Can I look at
*copyrighted* map for a name of lake that is placed at about 10km
northen from city X?
It is best to be paranoid.
Live in the belief that all in copyright maps are covered in Trap
Streets [1] (or names) waiting
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Grant
Slateropenstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
It is best to be paranoid.
Live in the belief that all in copyright maps are covered in Trap
Streets [1] (or names) waiting to catch us out.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
In Belarus maps are an
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:07:08 +0200, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
2. It says that the main use is for city_limit. Again, why not. But
the other examples are very questionable : traffic_sign=maxspeed:30
or traffic_sign=DE:239 break some practices we had until now like
key=value and not
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:08:28 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I know about others: maxspeedtype=ITA:city
for example, or maxspeed=DE:walk
I don't understand why key:country=value is different to
key=country:value
but I would like to learn about it.
In that one
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:36:10AM +0200, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:07:08 +0200, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
2. It says that the main use is for city_limit. Again, why not. But
the other examples are very questionable : traffic_sign=maxspeed:30
or
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:44:32AM +0200, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote:
In that one case it's okay.
Reason:
* There can only be ONE maxspeed on a road. ever!
Please add per direction on a road. Still waiting for a good way to tag
maxspeed per direction. What we call a
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org wrote:
Probably a maxspeed:forward=50 + maxspeed:reverse=100
or something - How does this combine with wet and probably
even
vehicle based limits ... maxspeed:forward:motorcycle=50
I've been setting maxspeed to the lowest value and then
Hello,
Just found this article in Research.eu magazine:
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/newsroom/release_35.htm
(it is more about nature / health of soil ..)
I do not know if this is usefull, the org is there to contact, I know
about people doing mapping of African countries in Ghent university.
Florian Lohoff wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:44:32AM +0200, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com
wrote:
In that one case it's okay.
Reason:
* There can only be ONE maxspeed on a road. ever!
Please add per direction on a road. Still waiting for a good way to tag
maxspeed per direction. What
their kit looks quite bulky. I've got just one videocamera (and no
LIDAR) fitted, and it all mounts on handlebars with room to spare for
other stuff.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Georeference_video
Maybe the big tricycle is needed to lift the cameras up above the traffic?
other people
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:17:22 +1000, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com
wrote:
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
skipp...@gimnechiske.org
wrote:
I have made a proposal for a tag
...
I think this will only
Just a little trumpet-blowing announcement ;)
After about 18 months steady adding, I now believe I have completed Crawley,
West Sussex, UK (population 100k+) in terms of streets and street names.
http://osm.org/go/eurnrkJ?layers=000BFTF
I'm planning to take a bit of a break from OSM for a
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) skipp...@gimnechiske.org wrote:
much more. Since many countries have two different signs
for max legal
height and max physical height, and its usages can be very
different, why
not allow this in tags?
So why not just use maxheight=* and
When I expound on why I'm so passionate about contributing towards
OpenStreetMap is this is one of the reasons:
1/ Consider that you've moved into a new area and need to know
* which pharmacy is open the latest
* where the nearest health care centre is
* the quickest route that isn't obstructed
Emilie Laffray emilie.laffray at gmail.com writes:
For example the Imperial Palace in Tokyo would have
name:en=Imperial Palace
name:jp at Romaji=koukyo
name:jp=??
However, I do believe that translitteration
is worthy of appearing in name:en when none exists.
I agree that when no
Nice work Dave :-)
If you are looking for inspiration of what to map next, then the
mappa-mercia [1] page on the wiki gives a few mini project ideas. After we
completed the Birmingham base map last year we started looking at new ideas
and so far that's what we've come up with. Certainly keeps a
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:36 AM, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote:
It has been discussed at length before. Please consult the archive
first.
Did you check yourself the archive before submitting this comment ? I
did and the only mention I found (searching traffic_sign) was inside
another
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Florian Lohofff...@rfc822.org wrote:
I started tagging the sign when i started with maxspeed as it
sometimes help the orientation in the data when adding maxspeed.
Could you explain what you mean by help the orientation in the data
? Do you mean that maxspeed
I want to talk about this page on the wiki describing how to map tunnels
correctly:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tunnel#How_to_Map
Especially the last paragraph causes headaches to me:
If the tunnel ends in a junction you'll need a small un-tunneled way
between the end of the
2009/7/30 Marc Schütz schue...@gmx.net:
this might be a logical topic: we are mapping the center of the road.
The tunnel can not end at the center of the crossing road, because
this road itself is not a tunnel. (you will have at least half the
width of the crossing road untunneled).
No, IMO
On 30/07/09 09:26, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) wrote:
much more. Since many countries have two different signs for max legal
height and max physical height, and its usages can be very different, why
not allow this in tags?
Can you provide sample images for such signs? I confess I find it hard
this might be a logical topic: we are mapping the center of the road.
The tunnel can not end at the center of the crossing road, because
this road itself is not a tunnel. (you will have at least half the
width of the crossing road untunneled).
No, IMO we're mapping the entire road, but
2009/7/30 OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com:
their kit looks quite bulky. I've got just one videocamera (and no
LIDAR) fitted, and it all mounts on handlebars with room to spare for
other stuff.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Georeference_video
Maybe the big tricycle is needed to lift the
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe the big tricycle is needed to lift the cameras
up above the traffic?
I guess they are recording in higher resolutions. The
problem with
I don't know what res street view in general is but you can't read most
John Smith wrote:
Sent: 30 July 2009 10:42 AM
To: OJ W; m...@koppenhoefer.com
Cc: OSM Talk
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetView From Bikes
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe the big tricycle is needed to lift the cameras
up above the traffic?
OJ W wrote:
Maybe the big tricycle is needed to lift the cameras up above the traffic?
THAT I think is the big mistake that Google made. Pushing the camera head up
so that it looks OVER security walls and hedges is what annoys people the
most. If a person has to use a ladder to obtain a
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Florian Lohoff wrote:
In that one case it's okay.
Reason:
* There can only be ONE maxspeed on a road. ever!
Please add per direction on a road.
at a given time.
(we have reduced maxspeed in front of schools depending on time, day and
whether it is term time)
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:17:02 +0100, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net
wrote:
On 30/07/09 09:26, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) wrote:
much more. Since many countries have two different signs for max legal
height and max physical height, and its usages can be very different,
why
not allow this in
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) skipp...@gimnechiske.org wrote:
You also mentioned sailboats under bridges, are you
planning to update
the
clearance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as the tide
goes in and out?
You are clearly not familiar with the term free sailing
height
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:41:07 +0200, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Florian Lohoff wrote:
Not only in a corner. In Germany the A3, going down the Elzer Berg (near
Limburg an der Lahn in the eastward direction) has a speedlimit of 40
km/h
on
the right lane and 100 km/h (or 120? haven't
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
at a given time.
(we have reduced maxspeed in front of schools depending on
time, day and
whether it is term time)
There are other roads that have variable limit speed signs and they can change
at any time.
There is also changes in
2009/7/30 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com:
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
at a given time.
(we have reduced maxspeed in front of schools depending on
time, day and
whether it is term time)
There are other roads that have variable limit speed signs and they can
2009/7/30 Marc Schütz schue...@gmx.net:
Maybe not in all cases, but have a look at this example:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=degeocode=q=bayreuthsll=37.0625,-95.677068sspn=59.467068,107.138672ie=UTF8ll=49.935936,11.646567spn=0.000375,0.000817t=kz=21
It'd be hard to argue that
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote:
And in my own jurisdiction: to be able to set maxspeed=none
for bicycles
when there is no explicit maxspeed sign. :D
bikes have the same speed limits here as every other thing on wheels, and even
horses for that matter, and you can get
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
actually even though the definition in the wiki might not
specify it
unambigously and explicitly the current use of maxheight
These things should be explicitly stated, otherwise people interpret it
differently :)
(as
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:41:11 + (GMT), John Smith
delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
actually even though the definition in the wiki might not
specify it
unambigously and explicitly the current use of maxheight
These
2009/7/30 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com:
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote:
And in my own jurisdiction: to be able to set maxspeed=none
for bicycles
when there is no explicit maxspeed sign. :D
bikes have the same speed limits here as every other thing on wheels, and
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) skipp...@gimnechiske.org wrote:
will continue on my proposal. Without any clearification on
the existing
tag, than it will be more confusing than adding new tags. I
have atleast
stated in the definition of the tag how it is to be used.
No, 2
2009/7/30 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com:
bikes have the same speed limits here as every other thing on wheels,
and even horses for that matter, and you can get tickets like all the
other wheeled vehicles and even get done for drink driving on horses and
ride on lawn mowers.
That's
marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:41:07 +0200, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Florian Lohoff wrote:
Not only in a corner. In Germany the A3, going down the Elzer Berg (near
Limburg an der Lahn in the eastward direction) has a speedlimit of 40
km/h
on
the
Lennard wrote:
Exactly, it's a moot point, and I included it mostly to make the point
that there are so many subtle ways to handle maxspeed, that it would be
difficult to make an all-encompassing tagging scheme. At some point,
you'll just have to go with a generalized solution.
The general
2009/7/30 Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net:
On 30/07/09 09:26, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) wrote:
much more. Since many countries have two different signs for max legal
height and max physical height, and its usages can be very different, why
not allow this in tags?
Can you provide sample
Lennard wrote:
The general solution is maxspeed is the highest of the maxspeeds of all
classes of vehicle on that road.
See also the signs we have in continental europe when you enter a country:
there is usually a large sign specifying the maximum speeds on different
roads
(within town,
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote:
In that case, your 100/100/40 example is easily collapsed
into maxspeed=100.
Let's see ... Hey, that's the current tagging scheme,
already! Why did we
need a change? :-)
Current GPSr's are only capable of knowing within 10m, most lanes
Florian Lohoff wrote:
maxspeed:wet:forward:motorcycle=50
Afterwards add time based maxspeeds :)
I think we'd need a generic way to tag conditional ...
Have you already participated in the syntax poll for
Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com writes:
secondary is typically used for travel at least 25km (between
multiple towns)
tertiary is used to get to secondary roads (to get to the 'real
road' in the next town)
this is working well for out-of-town situations. Inside
2009/7/30 Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com:
this is working well for out-of-town situations. Inside urban
good point; that's what I am used to thinking about.
agglomerations there should be different criteria though (and not
necessarily they are physical, what is my point: let's put the
Hi there,
on the SotM09 there was agreement that the search field should be visible at
the upper left of the screen in all screen resolutions on
http://www.openstreetmap.org .
This is not realized yet.
Who can do it, please?
Thanks
Lulu-Ann
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:01:09AM +0200, Pieren wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Florian Lohofff...@rfc822.org wrote:
I started tagging the sign when i started with maxspeed as it
sometimes help the orientation in the data when adding maxspeed.
Could you explain what you mean by
On 30/07/09 15:01, lulu-...@gmx.de wrote:
on the SotM09 there was agreement that the search field should be visible at
the upper left of the screen in all screen resolutions on
http://www.openstreetmap.org .
Funny, I obviously missed that.
This is not realized yet.
Who can do it, please?
2009/7/30 Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl:
Lennard wrote:
Exactly, it's a moot point, and I included it mostly to make the point
that there are so many subtle ways to handle maxspeed, that it would be
difficult to make an all-encompassing tagging scheme. At some point,
you'll just have to go
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote:
There are also issues with search at the moment which mean we don't
actually want to make it too prominent.
It's worth pointing out that there are developers who are working on
improving the search (primarily David Earl), so
Tom Hughes schrieb:
On 30/07/09 15:01, lulu-...@gmx.de wrote:
on the SotM09 there was agreement that the search field should be visible at
the upper left of the screen in all screen resolutions on
http://www.openstreetmap.org .
Funny, I obviously missed that.
+1
This is
Andy Allan wrote:
It's worth pointing out that there are developers who are working on
improving the search (primarily David Earl), so it's a known issue
that's being worked on rather than something that's being ignored.
Indeed. I am currently reloading the index from the planet file. The
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
And obviously you're also not travelling to Poland, otherwise you
would have seen this sign:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Speedlimitsinpoland.png/424px-Speedlimitsinpoland.png
Nope, I haven't. And if I was driving past it I wouldn't know
Just out of curiosity, is the indexing/search code available
somewhere? I'm intrigued by geosearch...
Yann
Le 30 juil. 09 à 17:01, David Earl a écrit :
Andy Allan wrote:
It's worth pointing out that there are developers who are working on
improving the search (primarily David Earl), so
See the following:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Name_finder
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/namefinder
Cheers,
Andy
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Yann Coupiny...@coupin.net wrote:
Just out of curiosity, is the indexing/search code available
somewhere? I'm intrigued
Hi,
I select a way with approx 2,000 nodes and move it in JOSM. I then
commit the change.
This creates v2 of the nodes but the way is still v1.
How do I revert this changeset? It seems Potlatch can only revert ways?
thanks, Andy
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PGP Key ID: 0xDC1B5864
El día Wednesday 29 July 2009 18:39:29, Marc Coevoet dijo:
I want to convert to something where 001W0547 becomes -1.0547
Have a look at cs2cs, part of the proj.4 suite. It excels at conversions of
decimal/sexagesimal/whatever geographical coordinates.
If cs2cs doesn't do the job, you'll have
I put a wrapper around the rather excellent
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Server_Side_Script which can
tell you which town/county/state/country something is in:
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=51.51lon=-0.05
- which replies that the specified numbers are in Tower
Am 30.07.2009 20:59, OJ W:
I put a wrapper around the rather excellent
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Server_Side_Script which can
tell you which town/county/state/country something is in:
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=51.51lon=-0.05
- which replies that the
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote:
OJ W wrote:
Maybe the big tricycle is needed to lift the cameras up above the traffic?
THAT I think is the big mistake that Google made. Pushing the camera head up
so that it looks OVER security walls and hedges is what
Yann Coupin wrote:
The problem is that your reasoning doesn't take bus/coach/hgv into
account. You're probably going to be as high in each of those vehicules
as Google's cams are...
Not on many of the private roads that are now being photographed but from
which large vehicles are banned -
as far as I understand the db this is correct. the way uses the same nodes.
no need to increase the version the way doesn't have any additional location
info
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com wrote:
Hi,
I select a way with approx 2,000 nodes and move it in
2009/7/30 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk:
Simply filming and saying 'we will remove pictures if you want' is just
arrogance that should not be condoned.
What's wrong with it? Where's the exact line dividing looking with
naked eye and filming? Since a camera is a set of light sensors and
Tom Hughes schrieb:
The whole home page needs a redesign, and I don't really want to start
fiddling with little things like this when we should be doing the job
properly.
There are also issues with search at the moment which mean we don't
actually want to make it too prominent.
Since
Hi,
andrzej zaborowski wrote:
The idea of google streetview infringing anybody's privacy is so misled.
I'm sure there is lots of intelligent argument on both sides of the
fence and I have no desire of going into the details here.
But on a more general note - I think that someone's privacy is
I meant to send this to the list
As an idea for 'openstreetviewbike' you could use a single camera pointing
straight up with a rotating mirror above it in order to capture in all
directions at once.
The velocity of the bike would probably be OK to still capture pictures
with close enough
I meant to send this to the list...
What's wrong with it? Where's the exact line dividing looking with
naked eye and filming?
I think that the difference here is that they make the images available
for others to view. There can be a great difference between taking a
picture of a drunk,
As an idea for 'openstreetviewbike' you could use a single camera
pointing
straight up with a rotating mirror above it in order to capture in all
directions at once.
A colleague suggested using a hi-res camera shooting upwards onto a fixed
multi-angle mirror.
How much resolution do you need
Hi
Marc Coevoet wrote:
004E4800,47N2000
002W2300,57N
001W0547,51N4823
013E2600,47N3400
013E2600,47N3400
013E2600,47N3400
013E2600,47N3400
013E2500,47N3343
to something where 001W0547 becomes -1.0547
That can actually be done with sed on the Unix command line:
% sed -e
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote:
The maxheight for a feature such as a bridge is the maximum height of an
object of the standard type that will fit under it.
No, the maxheight for a way refers to the maximum height *above* it
(not under it).
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:41 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
Either way, expanding the existing tag makes more sense than creating 2
differently named tags which will cause even more confusion and duplication.
I agree. So, how about maxheight:physical, maxheight:legal, and leave
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:25:17 +1000, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:41 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Either way, expanding the existing tag makes more sense than creating 2
differently named tags which will cause even more confusion and
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:51 PM, si...@mungewell.org wrote:
A Canon EOS Rebel, a few mirrors and some glue... might be an interesting
experiment.
The Canon 30D (for example) is rated for 100,000 shutter cycles. If you
take a shot every 1-10 seconds, you'll be able to go for roughly 6
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) skipp...@gimnechiske.org wrote:
If this is your suggestion to solve this, than I suggest
you do something
about it and get that information on the maxheight
documentation. I am not
sure how you intend this to be done. When you have a
process
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Ian Dees wrote:
That's why Google uses high-res digital video cameras running on Firewire on
their rigs.
I was more expecting the Elphel board design ;) Using 20MP kodak's CCDs
like they use in their book digitizing stuff.
Stefan
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, si...@mungewell.org si...@mungewell.org wrote:
What's wrong with it? Where's the exact line
dividing looking with
naked eye and filming?
I think that the difference here is that they make the
images available
for others to view. There can be a great difference
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote:
It's basically there to decide whether to use colons as in
your example
or switch to something like
maxspeed[wet][forward][motorcycle]. Why?
Well, because those time conditions tend to have colons in
You split based on the
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Aun Johnsen (via
Webmail)skipp...@gimnechiske.org wrote:
I agree. So, how about maxheight:physical, maxheight:legal, and leave
room for others if there is a demonstrable need in future?
...
If this is your suggestion to solve this, than I suggest you do
You split based on the equal sign and it doesn't matter
that the time condition or key uses colons.
Actually you don't have to, key values and key tags are stored independently of
each other, writing it with an equal sign is simply a way of describing it and
has nothing to do with how
Hello !
Cool. Any idea why it's failing for cities in Iran [1]? Missing country
polygon?
Claudius
[1] http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=36.303lon=59.606
This excellent tool seems to use the admin-boundary relations.
The output for my example (
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
Is there really such an overwhelming need to mark the physical difference to
the legal difference?
Whether there is an overwhelming need is not the question. The
question is whether allowing for the annotation of two
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
- residential roads (just in residential areas, no
connecting
function, you will not take this if you don't live in the
area)
- unclassified roads (not clear, there are voices that they
don't
exist in urban areas, I
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:45:50 +1000, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Aun Johnsen (via
Webmail)skipp...@gimnechiske.org wrote:
I agree. So, how about maxheight:physical, maxheight:legal, and leave
room for others if there is a demonstrable need in
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
different. This, I would argue, is a reason to allow for
the
How much does the physical height exceed the legal height in most cases?
possibility to differentiate between maxheight:physical
and
maxheight:legal.
If maxheight
Ok, I am revisiting this. Both me and Gustav F (original writes of the
proposal) was not satisfied with the outcome of the last vote (about
50/50), so I have rewritten the proposal based on many of the comments from
the rejecting votes.
There was mainly two issues of the rejecting votes:
1)
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:04:37 + (GMT), John Smith
delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
different. This, I would argue, is a reason to allow for
the
How much does the physical height exceed the legal height in most cases?
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote:
I put a wrapper around the rather
excellent
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Server_Side_Script
which can
tell you which town/county/state/country something is in:
I haven't looked at the script but it doesn't cope well with
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:04 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
How much does the physical height exceed the legal height in most cases?
This is difficult to answer. For a way passing under a bridge, I would
argue the limitation is (semantically) a physical one and not a legal
one.
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
This is difficult to answer. For a way passing under a
bridge, I would
argue the limitation is (semantically) a physical one and
not a legal
one.
I assume it would be legal in many countries and would use it as such to
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) skipp...@gimnechiske.org wrote:
insurance companie how to deal with it. They both should
give the same
advise to the driver (find a different road if you are too
tall).
Exactly, so you only need to place the lower value to discourage
2009/7/31 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com:
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
- residential roads (just in residential areas, no
connecting
function, you will not take this if you don't live in the
area)
- unclassified roads (not clear, there are
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
it's a different meaning in urban areas as in rural areas.
Many of
what you tag as primary and secondary in rural areas
(especially low
density ones) has 2 (1+1) lanes, while in a
metropolitan area will
very often
There are lots of mappers that don't read the wiki pages at all and lots of
mappers that only give them a cursory glance. So when introducing new tags it
should be important that the tag itself is as descriptive as possible.
When comparing the words maxheight and clearance, it isn't obvious at
Take a look at this boundary where a forest and national park meet:
http://osm.org/go/TwUljNo--
Notice that the boundaries don't line up. This is because the national
park is in slightly the wrong place. The national park is this changeset
uploaded yesterday:
2009/7/31 Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl:
When using maxheight / maxheight:physical / maxheight:legal the words themself
already tell most of the definition.
maxheight - for places where the difference is academic / for people who
don't care about the difference
+1
maxheight:physical - the
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Clearance
To: Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl
Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org
Date: Thursday, 30 July, 2009, 10:42 PM
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com wrote:
Take a look at this boundary where a forest and national park meet:
http://osm.org/go/TwUljNo--
Notice that the boundaries don't line up. This is because the national
park is in slightly the wrong place. The
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