Re: [talk-au] Adelaide Highway Classification (was: Highway Classification Issues)

2008-03-09 Thread Jack Burton
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 11:47 +1030, Darrin Smith wrote: > OK, to take this a step further I'll start the ball rolling in Adelaide: > (As we get a consensus I'll write a Adelaide/South Australia Wiki page > to reflect the decisions, I'm happy to do that) To date, I've been following the guidelines o

Re: [talk-au] secondary_link

2008-03-09 Thread Ian Sergeant
Jack Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/03/2008 03:37:02 PM: > A quick fix could be to patch the validator, so it doesn't complain > about unnamed highway=secondary or highway=tertiary ways, so long as > they contain no more than say 3 nodes and have length of less than some > arbitrary cutoff

Re: [talk-au] secondary_link

2008-03-09 Thread Jack Burton
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 09:28 +1030, Darrin Smith wrote: > Futher on this, is you are going to correct them, please check the > roads you are connecting them to. > > I'm seeing examples of valid primary & trunk links being turned into > secondaries and cases of primary cross-link's where I (have now

Re: [talk-au] secondary_link

2008-03-09 Thread Jack Burton
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 18:55 +1030, Darrin Smith wrote: > I can tell you jack that they are 2-way roads, since I'm the one who's > put them in there. Ok, good. That's what I thought. > Let me explain the reasoning behind my use of those tags (which upon > reflection and the comment by Stuart earli

Re: [talk-au] Specialised Garmin OSM Maps for country mapping

2008-03-09 Thread Matt White
Liz wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Matt White wrote: > >> Don't know if anybody is interested, but I have created a custom set of >> Garmin IMG files for use when mapping missing roads out in rural areas. >> They have the zoom levels altered so all road types are visible at the >> 2km zoom level.

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide Highway Classification (was: Highway Classification Issues)

2008-03-09 Thread Cameron
I haven't done much mapping for some time and would be happy to abide by whatever you come up with if I ever get back into it. My labelling of roads was generally around their physical attributes and whether they led anywhere important (ie. Glen Osmond road leads from the freeway to the city) but

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide Highway Classification (was: Highway Classification Issues)

2008-03-09 Thread Darrin Smith
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:52:00 +1100 Ian Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, rest assured this is a "live debate". Check out > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Highway_administrative/physical_descriptions That's an interesting page, good to see people are address

Re: [talk-au] Highway Classification Issues

2008-03-09 Thread Ian Sergeant
Darrin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I read one part of the OSM wiki I see it talking about classifying > highways purely by their physical characteristics .. > The majority of pages talk about classifying roads by their state > funding designation and or highway reference which is fine

[talk-au] Highway Classification Issues

2008-03-09 Thread Darrin Smith
I'm getting confused by this. When I read one part of the OSM wiki I see it talking about classifying highways purely by their physical characteristics (which after some thought makes vague sense, since you could in theory product and alternative map based on road 'importance' by using REF tags),

Re: [talk-au] secondary_link

2008-03-09 Thread Darrin Smith
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 18:55:56 +1030 Darrin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:20:59 +1030 > Jack Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 18:37 +1100, Stuart Robinson wrote: > > > Links are by default oneway, I think that's what the other person > > > is

Re: [talk-au] Specialised Garmin OSM Maps for country mapping

2008-03-09 Thread Liz
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Matt White wrote: > Don't know if anybody is interested, but I have created a custom set of > Garmin IMG files for use when mapping missing roads out in rural areas. > They have the zoom levels altered so all road types are visible at the > 2km zoom level. The reason for these

Re: [talk-au] secondary_link

2008-03-09 Thread Liz
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: > I use JOSM to edit the maps and I have the validator turned on. This > causes those little bits of road to come us as invalid because they > don't have a name. So I went looking for a way put the cross overs in > those cases without having to enter the road

Re: [talk-au] secondary_link

2008-03-09 Thread Darrin Smith
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:20:59 +1030 Jack Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 18:37 +1100, Stuart Robinson wrote: > > Links are by default oneway, I think that's what the other person is > > getting at. > > Ah, I didn't realise that. I don't think most of the ways in question

Re: [talk-au] secondary_link

2008-03-09 Thread Liz
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Stuart Robinson wrote: > Links are by default oneway, I think that's what the other person is > getting at. > > stuart. so the use of secondary_link was possibly a shorthand to avoid oneway=true ?? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@