Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-21 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 20 Sep 2009, at 20:27, Timothy C Litwiller wrote: county highway = residential surface=paved smoothness=good poor county highway = residential surface=paved smoothness=bad Please don't use smoothness=* as it is not a descriptive tag. Shaun smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-21 Thread Joseph Scanlan
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Richard Weait wrote: Excellent start. Changing arterial streets to highway=secondary will help give the city some context. I prefer marking arterials as highway=tertiary. There are exceptions, of course. Some arterials are part of highways connecting cities. No point

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Joseph Scanlan n7...@arrl.net wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Richard Weait wrote: Excellent start.  Changing arterial streets to highway=secondary will help give the city some context. I prefer marking arterials as highway=tertiary.  There are exceptions, of

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-21 Thread Joseph Scanlan
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Richard Weait wrote: Sorry, Joseph, I was talking about suburban arterials, which I prefer as secondary. I use tertiary to distinguish the preferred route into and out of the subdivision. Often these are wider or have turn lanes and or traffic signals to aid access to

[OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-20 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
I didn't find a newbie list so I've been reading the wiki and this list for the last week. I've been working on streets in and around Wichita and Newton, Kansas for the last week, it seems there has been little done since the tiger data import, as most freeway(motorway) intersections also

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Timothy C Litwiller t...@litwiller.net wrote: I didn't find a newbie list so I've been reading the wiki and this list for the last week. Welcome, Tim. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies ;-) I don't know how busy that list is, so I signed up too.

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-20 Thread Liz
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Timothy C Litwiller wrote: also - more questions about roads in a rural setting. we have dirt and/or sand or gravel roads every mile - I think I'll put surface=unpaved and surface=dirt, is there a preferred way to designate , like the UPS and Fedex men have maps, of

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-20 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
On 9/20/2009 3:52 PM, Richard Weait wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Timothy C Litwillert...@litwiller.net wrote: I didn't find a newbie list so I've been reading the wiki and this list for the last week. Welcome, Tim. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-20 Thread Peter Herison
Timothy C Litwiller schrieb: I didn't find a newbie list http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies I've been disconnecting and making sure that the entrance and exit ramps match the yahoo image. and adding bridges to the appropriate way. Do not rely to much on Yahoo images. Sometimes

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-20 Thread Mike N.
I've been working on streets in and around Wichita and Newton, Kansas for the last week, it seems there has been little done since the tiger data import, as most freeway(motorway) intersections also connect directly to the crossing street. I've been disconnecting and making sure that the

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-20 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
Thanks everyone - I've learned some new things and I've found and joined the newbie list also now. It looks like I'll have plenty of local fixes to work on for a long time without even importing gps traces. There are a few places tho where I have gps traces of new street but I wanted to get