Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-28 Thread John Smith
2009/8/28 Norbert Hoffmann nhoffm...@spamfence.net: No, Roy wants to tag the semantics of the stop-sign. If this really simplifies the task of the data consumers, it's all the better. It seems the problem Roy is trying to solve is to seperate lanes out, of a dual direction way by use of a

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-28 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:18 PM, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/28 Norbert Hoffmann nhoffm...@spamfence.net: No, Roy wants to tag the semantics of the stop-sign. If this really simplifies the task of the data consumers, it's all the better. It seems the problem Roy is

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-28 Thread John Smith
2009/8/28 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: So what are you proposing? How should we tag stop signs? To me, it seems you are suggesting that stop signs should *only* be tagged on ways that are oneway=yes. What are you proposing? Nothing of the sort. We really don't seem to be on the same

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-28 Thread John Smith
2009/8/28 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: This does bring up a few more combinations that are not currently covered. I've had a couple of runs over to Milton Keynes in the last couple of days, and GETTING into the correct lane even to go straight on can be a problem, with the outside lane of

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-27 Thread Lars Francke
Hi Ideas? Comments? Flames? :-) I'll have to admit that I didn't read the proposal or any of the mails in this thread. However, I still have a comment: All I can think of when reading Key:stop is that I can't wait to finally see or use: stop=hammer time stop=in the name of love stop=collaborate

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-27 Thread Marc Schütz
This brings up an interesting question, when you're finding the nearest junction to use for stop key on a node, what counts as a junction? It's going to be a node which belongs to the current way and at least one other way satisfying certain conditions, but what are those conditions? If

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/27 Marc Schütz schue...@gmx.net: Note that by requiring a junction, you make it impossible to model stop signs don't involve a junction. I don't know how frequent these occur, but I can imagine cases where there is a sharp curve before which you're required to stop. And I believe

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-27 Thread Craig Wallace
On 27/08/2009 09:37, Lars Francke wrote: Hi Ideas? Comments? Flames? :-) I'll have to admit that I didn't read the proposal or any of the mails in this thread. However, I still have a comment: All I can think of when reading Key:stop is that I can't wait to finally see or use:

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Marc Schützschue...@gmx.net wrote: Note that by requiring a junction, you make it impossible to model stop signs don't involve a junction. Yeah, I was thinking about this too You could argue that a stop sign/requirement to stop should be modeled not by a

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-27 Thread JigPu
Disclaimer: I'm new to the OSM mailing lists, so hopefully I didn't screw up my email :D ~ I must say that I find both Relation:type=stop and Roy's ideas interesting. The former suggests that we abstract reality away while the latter suggests we mirror reality in OSM. Mirroring reality

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-27 Thread John Smith
2009/8/28 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Marc Schützschue...@gmx.net wrote: Note that by requiring a junction, you make it impossible to model stop signs don't involve a junction. Yeah, I was thinking about this too You could argue that a stop

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-27 Thread Norbert Hoffmann
John Smith wrote: 2009/8/28 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: How about this...just tag a node (must be on a way) where the stop sign/line is in reality, with the following: stop:forward=yes, or stop:backward=yes, or stop=yes (for a node on a oneway=yes way, else implies the stop sign

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Only if the lanes are marked as separate ways, which they normally wouldn't be for a narrow road. They should be, anything other than lanes=2 should be tagged properly, lanes=2 is implied as that is the usual case for most roads.

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread James Livingston
On 26/08/2009, at 1:38 PM, John Smith wrote: I agree, we need more tags to describe the railway crossing's feature set, boom_gate=no, lights=no etc, however this is a special case for stop signs because they will exist either side of the junction and never applies to the railway line.

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread James Livingston
On 26/08/2009, at 1:10 AM, Lester Caine wrote: I think the point here is that of being able to see easily what has been applied to the data. Nodes and ways are easy to see, but this extra data is probably not so obvious as you would not know that a node ON the way actually has extra

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 26/8/09, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: This brings up an interesting question, when you're finding the  nearest junction to use for stop key on a node, what counts as a  junction? It's going to be a node which belongs to the current way and  at least one other way

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:22 PM, James Livingstondoc...@mac.com wrote: On 26/08/2009, at 1:38 PM, John Smith wrote: This brings up an interesting question, when you're finding the nearest junction to use for stop key on a node, what counts as a junction? It's going to be a node which belongs

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:31 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 26/8/09, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: If we are to use the stop key, I think those conditions will need to be explicitly spelt out, so that you can process the data. Which is tagging for routing

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 27/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: You also seem to be saying that routing software should work out *for itself* which junction the stop sign applies to. I disagree - the mapper on the ground should be able to enter this information in the database. Then we

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:15 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 27/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: You also seem to be saying that routing software should work out *for itself* which junction the stop sign applies to. I disagree - the mapper on the

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 27/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: There are two important differences: 1) The meaning of a particular way or node is separate from the value of is_in. On the other hand, the meaning of a requirement to stop is NOT separate from knowledge of the junction to which

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:06 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: Besides why should you care about needing this explicit information, if it's rendered you will see a sign, you will also see the nearest junction and your mind can put 2 and 2 together. A computer can do the exact same

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 27/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: You're asking why should we tag things explicitly? Because we're building a database. A huge, complex database that's used by lots of That's just a straw man argument, you keep building the same thing up again and again but it

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:14 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 27/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Besides, I asked you personally why you cared, why do you care, or how will it benefit you personally how a stop sign is marked? My apologies, I

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 27/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: My apologies, I misinterpreted your question why should you care about needing this explicit information. To answer your question, I do not care personally. It will not benefit me personally whatsoever how a stop sign is marked.

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Roy Wallacewaldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I see what you mean, but the stop sign does NOT apply to just an intersection - it applies to a way(s) AND an intersection. This is because the applicability of the stop sign at an intersection might depend on your

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Roy Wallacewaldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I see what you mean, but the stop sign does NOT apply to just an intersection - it applies to a way(s) AND an intersection. This is because the

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Roy Wallacewaldo000...@gmail.com wrote: You say the node when you mean a node somewhere near the node. near means where the sign is. I prefer 1) for a number of reasons. IMHO, 2) and 3) are more or less attempts to mimic 1) in order to avoid using a relation.

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 25/8/09, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not againt relations when it is adding information. If I have a 100 meters way and a single stop sign node 5 meters before the intersection, It is just waste of time and resource to add a relation for something obvious. I have better

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:31 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: This whole argument seems to be about tagging for routing software which is as bad as tagging for render. What's so bad about sticking a stop node 3-5m before the intersection, after all how many junctions have a

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:31 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: This whole argument seems to be about tagging for routing software which is as bad as tagging for render. What's so bad about sticking a stop node 3-5m before the intersection, after all how many junctions have a stop

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 25/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: This is not about tagging for routing software. Then what is it? I'll ask again, how many stop signs appear after you go through an intersection? In my experience the answer is none, so it's a simple calculation to establish which

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Roy Wallacewaldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I have a different stance - I am against using anything that isn't a relation when a relation is necessary. no problem with that. And a relation is necessary when a tag involves an inseparable interaction of ways/nodes,

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 25/8/09, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: Or we could just always use a relation, so that mapping and software  don't have to check for two different things, when editing and  processing data respectively. Or in other words, tagging for the routing software, this

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread James Livingston
On 25/08/2009, at 10:22 PM, John Smith wrote: --- On Tue, 25/8/09, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: Or we could just always use a relation, so that mapping and software don't have to check for two different things, when editing and processing data respectively. Or in other words,

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Roy Wallacewaldo000...@gmail.com wrote: 1) a relation with the node and the way as members, as in, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Relation:type%3Dstop) 2) the way tagged with indirect reference to the node (i.e. start or end node of way)

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Joseph Booker
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:34:52 + (GMT) John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I'll ask again, how many stop signs appear after you go through an intersection? I'm a little tired of reading about this, so I'm going to contribute my two cents: Almost every intersection I've seen has the

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 25/8/09, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: Sorry, I had a typo in that sentence - it should read so that mappers  and software As well as software, it makes it easier for mappers  who wouldn't have to check arbitrary nodes around a junction. No, the easiest thing

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 25/8/09, Joseph Booker j...@neoturbine.net wrote: Almost every intersection I've seen has the stop sign *at* the intersection. The intersection is the middle of the two or more ways intersecting, the stop sign is always before the intersection, not at the intersection. Here,

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Joseph Booker
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:06:19 +0200 Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Roy Wallacewaldo000...@gmail.com wrote: 1) a relation with the node and the way as members, as in, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Relation:type%3Dstop) 2) the way

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/25 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: How can mapping out a node not be simple? It is a lot simpler than mapping out a relation or splitting a way etc etc etc and the only thing that benefits from stop sign information is routing software, editors don't, mappers don't so making it

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Joseph Bookerj...@neoturbine.net wrote: According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Relation:type%3Dstop , it seems like you would just have 3 relations. The first relation would include the node for the top intersection and the two

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Joseph Booker j...@neoturbine.net wrote: It's not a normal traffic light. It is legally and practically treated the same as a stop sign. My state describes it as This sign is used at intersections when a stop sign alone is hard to see or where additional emphasis on the

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
Pieren wrote: A small pic is better than a long speach. One example with one major street and six minor streets all having stops when intersecting with the major street: Or three minor roads all crossing the same major one | ---+--- | ---+--- | ---+--- | 3) add 6

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:34 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 25/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: This is not about tagging for routing software. Then what is it? It's about choosing the most appropriate way to tag something that *intrinsically* involves

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:06 PM, James Livingstondoc...@mac.com wrote: Or we could just always use a relation, so that [mappers] and software don't have to check for two different things, when editing and processing data respectively. Yup. ___

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Pierenpier...@gmail.com wrote: First interaction is the coordinates/positions of these elements. We shouldn't create relations if the information can be deduced from the positions. We had a similar discussion about identifying all objects inside a polygon (tag

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Joseph Bookerj...@neoturbine.net wrote: You gain nothing with the proposals raised compared to relations, except some avoidance of relations. With relations the tagging is much simpler, it makes sense intuitively when you come across it in the data...

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:06 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: Have a look at the awful way someone came up with tagging speed cameras, I couldn't figure it out at the time so I ended up tagging speed cameras as a single node with highway=speed_camera. Why would making it harder

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Peter Childspchi...@bcs.org wrote: The only time I can see a relation actually helping is with stuff that is difficult to map like no left turn Do you realise why you need a relation for no left turn? It's because the restriction *intrinsically involves more

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure that deducing the meaning of a node tagged with stop from the positions of the ways and nodes in the vicinity is equally clear. I know you disagree. Pre-processor finds a stop sign, looks for the nearest junction

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 26/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure that deducing the meaning of a node tagged with stop from the positions of the ways and nodes in the vicinity is equally clear. I know you

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I still think it isn't best-practice, for the reasons I've already described, but I admit it is attractive if you really, really don't like relations (for some reason...). It's not that I dislike relations, I think they're

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/8/26 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 26/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Pre-processor finds a stop sign, looks for the nearest junction node which it would already know is a junction

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: What about railway crossings?  I've seen railway crossings with no lights, gates or similar, just a stop sign.  Usually way out in the middle of nowhere, so there may not be a routable junction for quite some distance, and even if

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: What about railway crossings?  I've seen railway crossings with no lights, gates or similar, just a stop sign.  Usually way out in the middle of nowhere, so there may not be a routable junction for quite some distance, and

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Good point. Also, how about a straight section of road that becomes narrow (single lane) in one section, and therefore has a stop (or give way) sign on one side of the narrow section. There's no junction at all in this case.

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:32 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: Actually there is still a junction from when it goes from 2 lanes to 1 lane, and the (usually in .au) give way sign is before the junction of the 2 lanes into one. Only if the lanes are marked as separate ways, which

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:39 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:53:53 +1000, Roy Wallace wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'd like to start discussion on the deprecation of the Tag:highway=stop in favour

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 24/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:  stop=first (-1)  stop=last  (yes)  stop=both  (both) Hrmm that is more concise, but I think less self-explanatory (remember that not everyone reads the wiki before editing). E.g. stop=both could be misunderstood to mean

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:44 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: What happens at T intersections where there is a stop sign on all ways, and cross intersection with 4 stop signs, the US version of a roundabout effectively. The ways must be split so that they end (or begin) at the

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 24/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: The ways must be split so that they end (or begin) at the intersection. (This is required for most of the relation proposals anyway, IIRC.) Then, each way to which a stop sign applies should be tagged with stop=at_last_node

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread James Livingston
On 24/08/2009, at 8:53 AM, Roy Wallace wrote: I don't like this, because before is arbitrary. If the stop requirement applies to the intersection, I think it should be applied to the intersection itself (either directly or as a member of a relation). I agree that these kind of things should

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:22 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I liked your suggestion of putting a node just before the intersection and tagging it, making relations and splitting ways sounds like something very convulted just for a stop sign so most people probably won't be

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 24/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: It wasn't my suggestion. I don't like the idea of putting a node just before the intersection, because that is arbitrary. If we're tagging an attribute of the way, tag the way - if we're tagging an attribute of the intersection,

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: --- On Mon, 24/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: The ways must be split so that they end (or begin) at the intersection. (This is required for most of the relation proposals anyway, IIRC.) Then, each way to which a stop sign applies should be tagged with

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 24/8/09, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Adding an extra node does make sense, but probably needs a 'relation' to the intersection as well? In any case the direction through this new node is the critical piece of information? Tagging ways would require that every section

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:00:14 +1000, Roy Wallace wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:39 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:53:53 +1000, Roy Wallace wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'd like to start

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: The exact problem here is that the 'STOP' requirement only relates to the junction with another road and is therefore not a tag of the way or the intersection, but rather information relating to approaching one from the

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:23 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I've seen a lot of talk about stop signs, but in Australia there is also give way signs, which can imped flow of traffic similar to stop signs. Replacing stop with give_way (or similar) should do the trick. The

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:32:46 +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: Le lundi 24 août 2009 à 15:25, Lester Caine a écrit : Adding an extra node does make sense, but probably needs a 'relation' to the intersection as well? In any case the direction through this new node is the critical piece of

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:54:00 +1000, Roy Wallace wrote: So IMHO David's proposal is a good way to avoid the use of a relation - if that is what people want. I personally don't mind relations as they're more explicit and not dependent on way direction. I don't mind relations either, I use lots

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:58 AM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: Well, they must IMHO. The wiki explains the ontology of the tags we're using, and the wiki is the main regulamentation for tags. Otherwise we go wild, and everyone uses what she likes best. Yes, but STILL - tags should

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:16:34 +1000, Roy Wallace wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:58 AM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: Well, they must IMHO. The wiki explains the ontology of the tags we're using, and the wiki is the main regulamentation for tags. Otherwise we go wild, and

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread David Paleino
People, please *don't* CC me. I'm subscribed to the list. On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:02:30 +0200, Pieren wrote: Tagging a whole way just because you have to stop at the end is a deep modeling mistake. Please, explain why. There is no similarity between the oneway which applies to the way with

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Pierenpier...@gmail.com wrote: Tagging a whole way just because you have to stop at the end is a deep modeling mistake. There is no similarity between the oneway which applies to the way with a stop sign which applies to an intersection. I see what you mean,

[OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread David Paleino
Hello, I'd like to start discussion on the deprecation of the Tag:highway=stop in favour of using stop=yes/both/-1. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:stop Unfortunately, when the page was first created, it was mistakenly put directly under the root namespace, instead of

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: The first usage is putting highway=stop in the node where ways intersect: this is not right, since that intersection represents (more-or-less) the center of the junction, and I've never seen a stop sign in the middle of a

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread Konrad Skeri
[...] This is obviously wrong. Yes, we could link those stops with the junction in a relation -- but adopting a proper Key:stop stop seems *much* cleaner to me. [...] Yes, the highway=stop is not a good solution. However, I prefer the suggested relation instead.

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:46:35 +0200, Pieren wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: The first usage is putting highway=stop in the node where ways intersect: this is not right, since that intersection represents (more-or-less) the center of the

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:27:42 +0200, Tobias Knerr wrote: David Paleino wrote: I'd like to start discussion on the deprecation of the Tag:highway=stop in favour of using stop=yes/both/-1. How about adding forward/backward information to each stop sign node instead? Would depend on way

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:17:02 +0200, Konrad Skeri wrote: [...] This is obviously wrong. Yes, we could link those stops with the junction in a relation -- but adopting a proper Key:stop stop seems *much* cleaner to me. [...] Yes, the highway=stop is not a good solution. However, I prefer

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread Craig Wallace
On 23/08/2009 15:45, David Paleino wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:27:42 +0200, Tobias Knerr wrote: David Paleino wrote: I'd like to start discussion on the deprecation of the Tag:highway=stop in favour of using stop=yes/both/-1. How about adding forward/backward information to each

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:58:36 +0100, Craig Wallace wrote: On 23/08/2009 15:45, David Paleino wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:27:42 +0200, Tobias Knerr wrote: David Paleino wrote: I'd like to start discussion on the deprecation of the Tag:highway=stop in favour of using

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread Craig Wallace
On 23/08/2009 17:15, David Paleino wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:58:36 +0100, Craig Wallace wrote: On 23/08/2009 15:45, David Paleino wrote: Read my reply to Pieren: how close you put the stop sign to the effective junction is pretty arbitrary, that's why I'm trying to abandon my

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:48:58 +0100, Craig Wallace wrote: On 23/08/2009 17:15, David Paleino wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:58:36 +0100, Craig Wallace wrote: Why not place the stop sign node where the stop line / stop sign is physically located? Nothing arbitrary about that. You can

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread Craig Wallace
On 23/08/2009 18:09, David Paleino wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:48:58 +0100, Craig Wallace wrote: Why is it necessary to relate the highway=stop to the junction node? Isn't it obvious that if a highway=stop is within a few metres of a junction, then its part of the same junction. It

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'd like to start discussion on the deprecation of the Tag:highway=stop in favour of using stop=yes/both/-1. First impression: the value of the tag is extremely ambiguous, and in no way self-explanatory. I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-23 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:53:53 +1000, Roy Wallace wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'd like to start discussion on the deprecation of the Tag:highway=stop in favour of using stop=yes/both/-1. First impression: the value of the tag is