Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-24 Thread Bjørn Bürger
Ben Laenen wrote: > I beg to differ here. When you have to tag cycleways belonging to a road > not as "highway=whatever, cycleway=track" but as > separate "highway=cycleway" they just become an editing mess, > especially at intersections. Yes, but this is also the reality for cyclists. Everyth

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-24 Thread Bjørn Bürger
Sven Grüner wrote: > Being considered a fanatical biker by my friends as well I share that > believe. ;-) > This worked fine when focussing on car-traffic but when we really want > to provide high-quility (usable for routing/navigation) data of footways > and cycleways I'm afraid we need a differ

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-04-02 Thread Bjørn Bürger
Karl Newman wrote: > I don't know why everyone's opposed to left/right. It's unambiguous, > and properly structured it would not be difficult for > editors to accommodate it. Hmm, IMO neither north/south, nor left/right are a good solution for this problem. The only clean solution would be a re

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-04-02 Thread Bjørn Bürger
Karl Newman wrote: > You still haven't solved the left/right problem. For example, house > numbers are commonly even on one side and odd on the other. Not in Braunschweig: Many of our streets are numbered this way: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - [...] - 131 == \ [...] 136 - 135

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-08 Thread Bjørn Bürger
Lambertus wrote: > Your suggestions are great, it would be nice to be able to classify ways > with properties like e.g. nice scenery, low traffic, smooth surface, > etc. Yes, something like that. The user interface could probably have some kind of switch or slider: [---