Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2010-01-04 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Honestly, I don't know if speed bumps would come into play or not. I kind of assume there wouldn't be a primary road which has speed bumps, but I'm willing to be proven wrong on that. Furthermore, there might not be any road

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-29 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: That said, I personally find the highway tagging guidelines difficult to apply anyway. In states without formal legal road classifications we might as

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-29 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:34 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/12/29 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: What's so important about traffic_calming tags? True, they will affect accurate trip time planning, but is that it? He's assuming it's a objective way to map

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-29 Thread Laurence Penney
(e.g. a road with speed bumps is never a primary) You've obviously never been to Mexico City. - L ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-29 Thread Laurence Penney
I'm afraid I wasn't mapping that day, but on a minibus jaunt out to San Andrés Mixquic from la Ciudad (in order to celebrate the Day of the Dead) we slowed down to about 5 mph for speed humps many times, several times on dual carriageways! - L On 29 Dec 2009, at 18:22, Anthony wrote: On

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/12/27 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com 2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish, everyone else is limited to 100, how exactly do you map that? (and I saw one

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-28 Thread John Smith
2009/12/29 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: in Germany there is indeed no speed limit (Ende aller Streckenverbote translates to end of all restrictions) after this sign (on motorways and dual cariageways outside town limits), so there was a proposal for a tag some time ago, which

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: That said, I personally find the highway tagging guidelines difficult to apply anyway. In states without formal legal road classifications we might as well mark everything except motorways and service roads as road for all I can

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-28 Thread John Smith
2009/12/29 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: What's so important about traffic_calming tags? True, they will affect accurate trip time planning, but is that it? He's assuming it's a objective way to map residential streets, main through fares generally don't have traffic calming devices.

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish, everyone else is limited to 100, how exactly do you map that? (and I saw one such sign only the day before yesterday).

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com: 2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish, everyone else is limited to 100, how exactly do you map that? (and I saw one

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: As long as you know the state default speed limit, this is easy to tag.  It is exactly the same as a sign with that limit. If so, just remember to indicate the source as discussed at:

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread David James
2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish, everyone else is limited to 100, how exactly do you map that? (and I saw one such sign only the day before yesterday).

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread Liz
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Anthony wrote: I suppose all the bicyclists in OSM would disagree with that, but they don't have much use for primary/secondary/tertiary designations either, do they? Of course we do, we want to avoid certain roads ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread Liz
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote: Mind you, I have no idea why these signs still exist, since I don't think there is anywhere in Australia you can legally go faster than 130km/hr these days. Has the NT put a standard speed limit on last? It changes policy with each change in government

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Anthony wrote: I suppose all the bicyclists in OSM would disagree with that, but they don't have much use for primary/secondary/tertiary designations either, do they? Of course we do, we want to avoid

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread John F. Eldredge
wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Anthony o...@inbox.org Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:08:00 To: Lized...@billiau.net Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Anthony wrote: I suppose all the bicyclists in OSM would disagree with that, but they don't have much use for primary/secondary/tertiary designations either, do they?

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: We want to avoid roads with too much traffic. None of these maps are going to check for hills It doesn't matter whose definition of primary/secondary/tertiary because the object is ride on the lower grade roads having

[OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread Steve Bennett
I gather the convention is to mark any unsurveyed road which one has some information as simply highway=road, on the basis that you know nothing else about it. But what about when the information comes from high quality imagery (like nearmap in australia)? I've been mapping these as

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I gather the convention is to mark any unsurveyed road which one has some information as simply highway=road, on the basis that you know nothing else about it. But what about when the information comes from high quality imagery (like nearmap in

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: I gather the convention is to mark any unsurveyed road which one has some information as simply highway=road, on the basis that you know nothing else about it. Looking at the highway tagging guidelines for Australia (

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 Anthony o...@inbox.org: That said, I personally find the highway tagging guidelines difficult to apply anyway.  In states without formal legal road classifications we might as well mark everything except motorways and service roads as road for all I can tell.  Anything else is just

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:56 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: It isn't the most objective way to do things, but then it's going to be subjective somewhere, the only difference is if you make the decision or someone in council does. I'm perfectly fine with letting the people in

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 Anthony o...@inbox.org: I have this insane theory that if the renderers just outright refused to color roads without speed limit tags, these tags would get added a lot quicker.  Once you have roads and speed limits, the question of which roads are the quickest way to go usually can

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish, everyone else is limited to 100, how exactly do you map that? (and I saw one such sign only the day before yesterday).

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish, everyone else is limited to 100, how

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I'm perfectly fine with letting the people in council waste their time with subjective categorization and then either 1) copying the results, if they have some sort of legal distinction; or 2) ignoring them altogether, if they

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish,

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/12/27 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with racing