Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Piers vs Docks

2016-03-11 Thread Janko Mihelić
Does iD have an American english translation? Maybe it should. sri, 9. ožu 2016. u 23:08 Clifford Snow napisao je: > Yesterday at our International Women's Day Mapathon in Bellingham, WA, one > of the participants wanted to add a pier on Bellingham's waterfront. > (Bellingham is located on Puget

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Piers vs Docks

2016-03-11 Thread Paul Norman
On 2016-03-11 9:50 AM, Janko Mihelić wrote: Does iD have an American english translation? Maybe it should. iD is in en_US, with an en_GB translation. For example, the untranslated help text mentions freeways, while en_GB mentions motorways. ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-11 Thread Abhishek Saikia
Hi everyone, The definition of a lane as per http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lanes is: > The *lanes*=* key should be used to specify the total number of traffic lanes a road has which are available to *motorised traffic* wider than a motor cycle. For t

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-11 Thread Marc Gemis
Please read http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes, which describes the ":lanes"- subkey. This page states: "Please be aware that this extension covers all kinds of lanes for all kind of vehicles and is not restricted to motorized traffic." this means that all turn:lanes, change:lanes, access:l

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
This is the more logical interpretation; the key:lanes page should be updated. cycleway=lane is great, but where is the lane? What about multiple lanes? This does happen, and they're not always next to each other, and any location there's multiple bike lanes or bicycle turn lanes can't be complet

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-11 Thread Janko Mihelić
+1 for counting all lanes, for whatever type of traffic. It's valuable information for cars that bikes are driving alongside. If a router has to choose a route for a car, a road without bikes is probably better. If a driver has to turn left over a bike lane, router should show a danger sign, watch

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Piers vs Docks

2016-03-11 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
By the way, we recently had a discussion on tagging@osm about quay, pier etc. : https://www.mail-archive.com/tagging@openstreetmap.org/msg28507.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Piers vs Docks

2016-03-11 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 11/03/2016 17:15, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: By the way, we recently had a discussion on tagging@osm about quay, pier etc. : That discussion was about the various mooring structures. The OP refers to the US-en usage of the word "dock", which is applied to any mooring str

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-11 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 11.03.2016 um 11:51 schrieb Janko Mihelić : > > +1 for counting all lanes what about the pavement/sidewalk, shall it be included? If yes, what is a lane there, e.g. when there are (partially) physical separations? cheers, Martin __

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-11 Thread Janko Mihelic
pet, 11. ožu 2016. 21:00 Martin Koppenhoefer je napisao: > > what about the pavement/sidewalk, shall it be included? If yes, what is a > lane there, e.g. when there are (partially) physical separations? > > No, I wouldn't include sidewalks. You could argue that sidewalks are just another lane, b

[OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 294

2016-03-11 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #294, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the OpenStreetMap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7084 *Among others:* - Mapillary closed a further financing round, getting access to 8 million US

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Janko Mihelic wrote: > pet, 11. ožu 2016. 21:00 Martin Koppenhoefer je > napisao: > >> >> what about the pavement/sidewalk, shall it be included? If yes, what is a >> lane there, e.g. when there are (partially) physical separations? >> >> > No, I wouldn't includ