[OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-22 Thread David Earl
I came across a contraflow bus lane yesterday. If it were a contraflow cycle lane I'd mark the road "cycleway=lane_opposite". has anyone had occasion to do the equivalent for for buses? There's nothing in Map_features to guide me. (Actually come to think it it, there is nothing to allow me to m

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-22 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Earl >Sent: 22 October 2008 6:22 PM >To: osm >Subject: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane > >I came across a contraflow bus lane yesterday. If it were a contraflow >cycle lane I'd mark the road "cycleway=lane_opposite". has anyone had >oc

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-22 Thread Matthias Julius
David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I came across a contraflow bus lane yesterday. If it were a contraflow > cycle lane I'd mark the road "cycleway=lane_opposite". has anyone had > occasion to do the equivalent for for buses? There's nothing in > Map_features to guide me. (Actually come to

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-22 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:57, Matthias Julius wrote: David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I came across a contraflow bus lane yesterday. If it were a contraflow cycle lane I'd mark the road "cycleway=lane_opposite". has anyone had occasion to do the equivalent for for buses? There's nothing i

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-22 Thread Matthias Julius
Shaun McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Usually psv for public service vehicle is used for access restrictions. I missed that. It would have been too easy to call a bus "bus", I guess ;-) Should we rename "bus_stop" to "psv_stop"? Matthias ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-22 Thread David Earl
On 22/10/2008 19:04, Shaun McDonald wrote: > > On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:57, Matthias Julius wrote: > >> David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I came across a contraflow bus lane yesterday. If it were a contraflow >>> cycle lane I'd mark the road "cycleway=lane_opposite". has anyone had >>> o

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-22 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:21 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/10/2008 19:04, Shaun McDonald wrote: >> >> On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:57, Matthias Julius wrote: >> >>> David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I came across a contraflow bus lane yesterday. If it were a contraflow >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-22 Thread Matthias Julius
David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 22/10/2008 19:04, Shaun McDonald wrote: >> >> On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:57, Matthias Julius wrote: >> >>> David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I came across a contraflow bus lane yesterday. If it were a contraflow cycle lane I'd mark the ro

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-22 Thread Stephen Hope
Not all PSV's are buses. 2008/10/23 Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Shaun McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Usually psv for public service vehicle is used for access restrictions. > > I missed that. It would have been too easy to call a bus "bus", I > guess ;-) > > Should we rename

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > I also have one in the centre of Sutton Coldfield. Think when I > mapped it > (ages and ages ago) I made it two separate ways which obviously > isn't right. > So interested to hear what people think. +1. There's one in Worcester. Except it's labelled

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-23 Thread David Earl
On 23/10/2008 09:00, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > >> I also have one in the centre of Sutton Coldfield. Think when I >> mapped it >> (ages and ages ago) I made it two separate ways which obviously >> isn't right. >> So interested to hear what people thin

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-23 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
David Earl wrote: >Sent: 23 October 2008 9:25 AM >To: Richard Fairhurst >Cc: osm >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane > >On 23/10/2008 09:00, Richard Fairhurst wrote: >> Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: >> >>> I also have one in the c

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-23 Thread Matthias Julius
David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Given the existing use of psv=opposite_lane I'll go with that for now. > (I don't think it does clash with psv=other things BTW). I didn't mean to say that it clashes with the existing use of the psv tag, but it would be inconsistent with the way cycle la

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-23 Thread Matthias Julius
"Stephen Hope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not all PSV's are buses. What else? Matthias ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-26 Thread Stephen Hope
"Passenger service vehicles (PSVs) are: * vehicles used in a passenger service (no matter how many seating positions they might have) * vehicles with more than 12 seating positions (whether they're used for hire or reward or not) * heavy motor vehicles with more than nine seating posit

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-26 Thread Tristan Scott
In my experience (Norwich, UK) a so-called "bus lane" is often a Bus, taxi and cycle lane. The overlords of roads in norwich often nobble cars by shutting down a small portion of a short-cut ("rat run") by making a bottleneck area bus lane. Therefore taxis carry on using the shortcut, and cars must

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-26 Thread Matthias Julius
"Tristan Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my experience (Norwich, UK) a so-called "bus lane" is often a Bus, > taxi and cycle lane. The overlords of roads in norwich often nobble > cars by shutting down a small portion of a short-cut ("rat run") by > making a bottleneck area bus lane. There

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-26 Thread Alex S.
Matthias Julius wrote: > "Tristan Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> the point is that it's not often (at least in the uk) that a bus lane >> does not also mean taxis. > > Since this is not the case everywhere in the world I guess having > separate bus and taxi tags (or busway and taxiway) are

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-27 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Matthias Julius: > "Tristan Scott"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> In my experience (Norwich, UK) a so-called "bus lane" is often a Bus, >> taxi and cycle lane. The overlords of roads in norwich often nobble >> cars by shutting down a small portion of a short-cut ("rat run") by >> making a bottlen

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-27 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Montag 27 Oktober 2008 schrieb Claudius Henrichs: > Taxis are not allowed on bus lanes in Germany... > at least in munich they are. but that is in bavaria, not germany ;-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ talk