Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 13/mar/2014 um 00:28 schrieb Frank Little frank...@xs4all.nl: We model bridges and tunnels in a specific way in OSM which means we do not need to add additional layer tags (but feel free if you do want to). IMHO we do not yet model explicit bridges or tunnels at all, we only add

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-13 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 13.03.2014 00:28, Frank Little wrote: Tobias Knerr wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/default_layer_for_bridge_and_tunnel [...] This is however not the implicit layer tags argument which Richard Z. gives, which he suggests means:. so every tunnel and bridge should

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-13 Thread Richard Z.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:06:41PM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: Pieren writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Frank Little frank...@xs4all.nl wrote: Richard Z wrote As mapped, the waterway=stream (Way #138911739) runs underground (layer=-1), probably through a culvert given

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-12 Thread Frank Little
Richard Z wrote In practice this rule is broken more often than you would think: Hamburg is full of waterways connected with roads on bridges through a tag obstacle. France is full of bridges sharing a node with the waterway bellow. ... http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1522876252 I

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-12 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Frank Little frank...@xs4all.nl wrote: Richard Z wrote As mapped, the waterway=stream (Way #138911739) runs underground (layer=-1), probably through a culvert given the way the stream left and right are separately outlined as waterway=riverbank (and without

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-12 Thread Frank Little
Pieren wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Frank Little frank...@xs4all.nl wrote: Richard Z wrote As mapped, the waterway=stream (Way #138911739) runs underground (layer=-1), probably through a culvert given the way the stream left and right are separately outlined as waterway=riverbank

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-12 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 12.03.2014 16:53, Frank Little wrote: But when did this happen as reported by Richard Z.: QUOTE The initiative to have implicit layer tags for those feature was voted down so every tunnel and bridge should now have one. UNQUOTE There was a proposal to set default layer=1 for bridge=yes

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-12 Thread Frank Little
Tobias Knerr wrote: On 12.03.2014 16:53, Frank Little wrote: But when did this happen as reported by Richard Z.: QUOTE The initiative to have implicit layer tags for those feature was voted down so every tunnel and bridge should now have one. UNQUOTE There was a proposal to set default

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-12 Thread Russ Nelson
Pieren writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Frank Little frank...@xs4all.nl wrote: Richard Z wrote As mapped, the waterway=stream (Way #138911739) runs underground (layer=-1), probably through a culvert given the way the stream left and right are separately outlined as

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Dave F.
Could you give some visual examples, maybe temporarily creating them in OSM ( deleting them afterwards) to clarify what you mean? Dave F. On 09/03/2014 22:26, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 9 March 2014 10:30, Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com wrote: for some time now I have been working on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread SomeoneElse
Dave F. wrote: Could you give some visual examples, maybe temporarily creating them in OSM ( deleting them afterwards) ... or on the dev server: http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/ Cheers, Andy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Dave F.
On 09/03/2014 12:21, Richard Z. wrote: the same conceptual problem exists with pylons where they are shared by two bridges or aerial tramways. Actualy every pylon breaks the rule by definition because it connects ground with layer=0 with something else at a different level. How do you want to

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Dave F.
On 09/03/2014 14:45, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2014-03-09 13:17 GMT+01:00 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com mailto:dave...@madasafish.com: it says which object is above and which below when they cross, it is not only for rendering I agree it does say which object is above

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-03-11 15:52 GMT+01:00 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: I agree it does say which object is above another. For the benefit of the renderer. Who else needs that data? Certainly not routers. well, everybody who tries to understand what this specific part of the map represents will have to

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Richard Z.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:51:23PM +, Dave F. wrote: On 09/03/2014 12:21, Richard Z. wrote: In practice this rule is broken more often than you would think: Hamburg is full of waterways connected with roads on bridges through a tag obstacle. France is full of bridges sharing a node

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Robert Kaiser
Richard Z. schrieb: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 12:34:31PM +, Dave F. wrote: On 09/03/2014 12:24, Richard Z. wrote: it says point, not node the difference probably needs to be emphasized very strongly. There is a difference between mathematicaly precise and intuitive formulations:((

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 10:26:59PM +, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 9 March 2014 10:30, Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com wrote: for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly uncontroversial.

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 11/03/2014, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 09/03/2014 14:45, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: For instance if you had an area tagged 'park' another area within it tagged 'lake' you could add a 'layer' tag to 'lake' to ensure the render displayed it. [...] Which

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Richard Z.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:52:02PM +, Dave F. wrote: On 09/03/2014 14:45, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, but adding a layer=1 to a lake in a park isn't clearer or more accurate, they are both on the same layer, the lake is in the park, not above (usually). Which confirms my point

[OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
Hi, for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly uncontroversial. Some of the changes: * the vertical ordering established by the layer values is valid exactly only in the point where the ways

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Dave F.
On 09/03/2014 10:30, Richard Z. wrote: Hi, for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly uncontroversial. Some of the changes: * the vertical ordering established by the layer values is valid

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:47:32AM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am 09/mar/2014 um 11:30 schrieb Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com: * the vertical ordering established by the layer values is valid exactly only in the point where the ways cross or objects overlap actually at

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 09/mar/2014 um 12:35 schrieb Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: This is not my understanding of the layer tag. It is a tool to help renderers place objects on top of each other has no real world implication in differences of height. it has implications on real world topology: it

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 09/mar/2014 um 12:43 schrieb Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com: It is broken by definition in at least one case: waterways ar supposed to share a node with the dam they are crossing, which means the highway passing across the dam will also share a node with the river passing thorugh a

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Dave F.
On 09/03/2014 12:03, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am 09/mar/2014 um 12:35 schrieb Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: This is not my understanding of the layer tag. It is a tool to help renderers place objects on top of each other has no real world implication in differences of height. it has

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 01:05:18PM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am 09/mar/2014 um 12:43 schrieb Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com: It is broken by definition in at least one case: waterways ar supposed to share a node with the dam they are crossing, which means the highway

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:35:20AM +, Dave F. wrote: On 09/03/2014 10:30, Richard Z. wrote: Hi, for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly uncontroversial. Some of the changes: * the

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:35:20AM +, Dave F. wrote: On 09/03/2014 10:30, Richard Z. wrote: Hi, for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly uncontroversial. Some of the changes: * the

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Dave F.
On 09/03/2014 12:24, Richard Z. wrote: it says point, not node the difference probably needs to be emphasized very strongly. There is a difference between mathematicaly precise and intuitive formulations:(( https://www.google.co.uk/#q=node%20definition a point in a network or diagram at which

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 09.03.2014 13:17, Dave F. wrote: On 09/03/2014 12:03, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: it has implications on real world topology: it says which object is above and which below when they cross, it is not only for rendering Disagree. A bridge at the top of Everest would be tagged 'layer=1'

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 12:34:31PM +, Dave F. wrote: On 09/03/2014 12:24, Richard Z. wrote: it says point, not node the difference probably needs to be emphasized very strongly. There is a difference between mathematicaly precise and intuitive formulations:((

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 09.03.2014 13:21, Richard Z. wrote: the same conceptual problem exists with pylons where they are shared by two bridges or aerial tramways. Actualy every pylon breaks the rule by definition because it connects ground with layer=0 with something else at a different level. How do you

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 12:34:31PM +, Dave F. wrote: On 09/03/2014 12:24, Richard Z. wrote: it says point, not node the difference probably needs to be emphasized very strongly. There is a difference between mathematicaly precise and intuitive formulations:((

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Tobias Knerr wrote: On 09.03.2014 13:21, Richard Z. wrote: the same conceptual problem exists with pylons where they are shared by two bridges or aerial tramways. Actualy every pylon breaks the rule by definition because it connects ground

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Colin Smale
Not all OSM nodes are also network/diagram nodes, which are points with (AFAIK) three or more lines in common. Intermediate OSM nodes in the middle of a way are not topologically significant. On 2014-03-09 14:00, Richard Z. wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 12:34:31PM +, Dave F. wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-03-09 13:17 GMT+01:00 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: it has implications on real world topology: it says which object is above and which below when they cross, it is not only for rendering Disagree. A bridge at the top of Everest would be tagged 'layer=1' exactly as it would be if in

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 09.03.2014 14:18, Richard Z. wrote: Pylons must share a node with the waterway bellow in my opinion. They are a pretty relevant part of it. Pylons will often be somewhere within the riverbank area - based on their exact positions in reality -, but I would not insert them into the waterway

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:55:51PM +0100, Tobias Knerr wrote: On 09.03.2014 14:18, Richard Z. wrote: Pylons must share a node with the waterway bellow in my opinion. They are a pretty relevant part of it. Pylons will often be somewhere within the riverbank area - based on their exact

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 09/03/2014, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: For instance if you had an area tagged 'park' another area within it tagged 'lake' you could add a 'layer' tag to 'lake' to ensure the render displayed it. -1, you should not add any layer in this case (tagging for the

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 9 March 2014 10:30, Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com wrote: for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly uncontroversial. Thank you for doing this, it's very useful to have this properly

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 10:26:59PM +, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 9 March 2014 10:30, Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com wrote: for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly uncontroversial.