Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-21 Thread Sean Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tag the same way as John does. Sean John Henderson wrote: > If the road is two-way traffic (you can drive in either direction), I > use the lanes tag only if the number of lanes is greater than two. > > If the road has one-way traffic, I use the

Re: [talk-au] Blue?

2010-01-21 Thread Arie Paap
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:55 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/22 Arie Paap : >> The correct coastline data seems to be in use again. Tiles that still >> have blue background are updated when resubmitted for rendering. Would >> be nice to be able to determine what date the rendered coastline comes >>

Re: [talk-au] Blue?

2010-01-21 Thread John Smith
2010/1/22 Arie Paap : > The correct coastline data seems to be in use again. Tiles that still > have blue background are updated when resubmitted for rendering. Would > be nice to be able to determine what date the rendered coastline comes > from. Download the coastline shape file from OSM servers

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-21 Thread John Smith
2010/1/22 John Henderson : > Mark Pulley wrote: >> I'm currently doing some edits in Armidale (NSW) following my trip >> there for Christmas. Many of the streets and surrounding roads are >> labelled "lanes=1". Some of these are clearly wrong, as they have a >> painted line in the middle (lanes=2)

Re: [talk-au] Blue?

2010-01-21 Thread Arie Paap
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:09 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/21 Arie Paap : >> From a brief look the coastline appears to be intact and I can't see >> any way located on the boundary of the blue background which might be >> the cause. > > The coast lines only update infrequently, so even if it look

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-21 Thread John Henderson
Mark Pulley wrote: > I'm currently doing some edits in Armidale (NSW) following my trip > there for Christmas. Many of the streets and surrounding roads are > labelled "lanes=1". Some of these are clearly wrong, as they have a > painted line in the middle (lanes=2) - I will be changing these,

[talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-21 Thread Mark Pulley
I'm currently doing some edits in Armidale (NSW) following my trip there for Christmas. Many of the streets and surrounding roads are labelled "lanes=1". Some of these are clearly wrong, as they have a painted line in the middle (lanes=2) - I will be changing these, but I wanted to check wh

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-21 Thread John Henderson
David Murn wrote: > I think slipway is the British term. From the leisure=slipway wiki > page: Yes, I'm happy now that they're using the term to apply to both types of boat launching facility. Anyhow, I've changed the tagging to show "highway=service" to the approximate high water mark, then

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:25 AM, David Murn wrote: > This doesnt sound wrong to me, if a service road can lead to a beach or > campsite, why not to a boatramp? Of course. I would have something like: =|--- where: = is highway=service - is waterway=slipway (or whatever the tag i

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-21 Thread James Livingston
On 21/01/2010, at 9:35 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > I would suggest tagging the way "leisure=slipway". If you need to > break the current specification to do so, then make a note on the wiki > page. Tagging it "highway=service" seems wrong. Service roads do not > go underwater... > > The tagging sys