[OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-13 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Hi, What might be an unambiguous way to tell that some cycleway is NOT designated? In theory if bicycle=designated means what it says then bicycle=yes might mean that yes, it is a cycleway, but no, it is not a designated cycleway. However, I feel that bicycle=yes means more often that nobody has

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-13 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > Hi, > > What might be an unambiguous way to tell that some cycleway is NOT designated? > In theory if bicycle=designated means what it says then bicycle=yes might mean > that yes, it is a cycleway, but no, it is not a designated cycleway.   >

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Thread Mike Harris
;t broke don't fix it? Mike Harris -Original Message- From: Roy Wallace [mailto:waldo000...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 August 2009 23:15 To: Jukka Rahkonen Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Ju

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/8/14 Mike Harris : > The problem is that some of us follow the wiki advice re designated= which > was developed after a lot of discussion in this group! > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:access%3Ddesignated > > If it ain't > broke don't fix it? IMHO it IS BROKEN. The cited page has

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Thread Mike Harris
rg Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing 2009/8/14 Mike Harris : > The problem is that some of us follow the wiki advice re designated= > which was developed after a lot of discussion in this group! > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:acce

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Roy Wallace wrote: > > To me, cycleway means path, designated means signed, and bicycle=yes > means it's suitable for bikes. So if you have a path that is suitable > for a bicycle but does not have a sign with a bicycle, I would use > highway=path (or cycleway, if y

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Mike Harris wrote: > > Tend to agree in part - I think the 'official' bit is actually redundant? > Would this improve the page? I'm not sure you'd be successful in removing 'official' altogether, but I think it could do with some clarification, as Martin points o

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Mike Harris wrote: > The problem is that some of us follow the wiki advice re designated= which > was developed after a lot of discussion in this group! > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:access%3Ddesignated > > Designated= does not mean signed. Signed= coul

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/8/15 Roy Wallace : > Could the definition of "official" be simplified to "signed"?? If not, > what would be the difference between bicycle=official and > bicycle=signed? As I have understood, official is intended to tag the formal dedication (usually of the local administration who decided to

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-14 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2009/8/15 Roy Wallace : >> Could the definition of "official" be simplified to "signed"?? If not, >> what would be the difference between bicycle=official and >> bicycle=signed? > > As I have understood, official is intended to tag the f

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-15 Thread Mike Harris
l/designated overlap can be minimised? Mike Harris -Original Message- From: Roy Wallace [mailto:waldo000...@gmail.com] Sent: 15 August 2009 00:12 To: Mike Harris Cc: Jukka Rahkonen; talk@openstreetmap.org; m...@koppenhoefer.com Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/8/15 Roy Wallace : > The wiki says "'Official' is stronger than 'designated'...'Offical' is > only for ways marked with a legal traffic sign". the map-features main page states for access: " * official is used for ways dedicated to a certain mode of travel by law. Usually indicated by a tra

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-15 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > >>> Bicycle=signed is IMHO not the best idea, because what do you do for >>> official or designated _and_ signed ways? >> >> As I mentioned before, you would have to change the syntax to >> something more like bicycle:designated=* and b

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

2009-08-15 Thread Richard Mann
access=official is a proposal (and one that appears to be in abeyance) It's basically trying to create another access= value to try to sort out some of the mess with access=designated, but I fear it just adds further to the confusion. Richard On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: