Re: [OSM-talk] Tag conflict? e.g. man_made=tower and man_made=surveillance

2010-04-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/4/23 Frederik Ramm : > If having a CCTV in a shop is the norm, should we perhaps start tagging > the exception (surveillance=no)? wouldn't this still lead to surveillance=yes and surveillance=unknown to see if this tag is already checked, or simply a missing information? ;-) IMHO especially

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag conflict? e.g. man_made=tower and man_made=surveillance

2010-04-22 Thread John Smith
On 23 April 2010 09:26, Frederik Ramm wrote: > seem to have added "surveillance=indoor" to half of the shop nodes. God > forbid UK residents taking on the same zeal as this would undoubtedly > lead to "surveillance=indoor" being attached to every ATM, shop, filling Maybe they should play count th

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag conflict? e.g. man_made=tower and man_made=surveillance

2010-04-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, AssetBurned wrote: > I'm not sure what to do now, but I would like to suggest a scripted > change of _all the tags_ man_made=surveillance to surveillance=indoor But that would create false information for all those outdoor cameras now tagged man_made=surveillance, would it not? Personally I

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag conflict? e.g. man_made=tower and man_made=surveillance

2010-04-22 Thread John Smith
On 23 April 2010 06:52, AssetBurned wrote: > hi, > > I'm not sure what to do now, but I would like to suggest a scripted change of > _all the tags_ man_made=surveillance to surveillance=indoor man_made=tower;surveillance ___ talk mailing list talk@ope

[OSM-talk] Tag conflict? e.g. man_made=tower and man_made=surveillance

2010-04-22 Thread AssetBurned
hi, I'm not sure what to do now, but I would like to suggest a scripted change of _all the tags_ man_made=surveillance to surveillance=indoor The first one is an approved proposal http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Surveillance and it only shows if a surveillance is present a

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=byway

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Harris
Pieren may be missing the point that Richard is making - and I think Richard makes quite an important point (at least for England and Wales). highway=track describes what is seen on the ground (and can usefully be refined with tracktype=* as per the wiki definitions). designation=* makes a st

[OSM-talk] Using destination_sign relations for complex exit ramps?

2010-04-22 Thread Phil! Gold
I've been trying to figure out how to tag some moderately complex exit ramp systems when a single motorway_junction doesn't seem adequate. An email to the newbies list led to an IRC discussion that led to a solution that I like, so I wanted to present it here to see what other people think and pos

[OSM-talk] DailyRoads Android App

2010-04-22 Thread paul youlten
Just stumbled upon this: http://www.dailyroads.com/voyager.php "DailyRoads Voyager is a free application for Android-powered mobile phones, allowing for continuous video recording from vehicles. Essentially, the application acts as a video black box, recording everything, but only keeping what th

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=byway

2010-04-22 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Richard Mann < richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Yes its a relic. Use highway=track+designation=byway instead > > Richard > > > I'm not sure it's a relic but it's a UK specific tag. I asked the question some time ago: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=byway

2010-04-22 Thread Richard Mann
Yes its a relic. Use highway=track+designation=byway instead Richard On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:58 AM, André Riedel wrote: > What is the difference between a byway an a track? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway >> An unmade path/track which usually allows vehicles as well as foot

[OSM-talk] highway=byway

2010-04-22 Thread André Riedel
What is the difference between a byway an a track? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway > An unmade path/track which usually allows vehicles as well as foot, > horse and cycle traffic (in the UK, there are byways which allow motor > vehicles, and restricted byways which allow non-mechani