Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-16 Thread Andrew Davidson
It's also a little unnecessary as the current renderer does a reasonable job of making the place names appear and then disappear as you zoom in. The place where most people want to go gets a little fuzzy the bigger the settlement gets. Just for a laugh I asked for directions to "Sydney":

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-16 Thread Mark Rennick
t:[talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet G'day all, We needed our daughter to pick something up from Lalbert and since she had never driven there herself, we looked up the map. However, Smith St did not appear, instead tagged as the Lalbert Kerang Rd, as here: https:// www.openstreetmap.org/way/80838

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-15 Thread Simon Slater
On Monday, 16 January 2017 5:21:45 AM AEDT Marc Gemis wrote: > , the node should be > placed near the location where you want to be guided to when you > specify the hamlet without street name in a navigation system. I was wondering if routing would be affected. I've recently done a new system

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-15 Thread Marc Gemis
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > For Australia .. most people think of the 'centre' as the post office, in > Europe it would be the train station. You can add churches for villages where there is no train station. m.

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-15 Thread Warin
On 16-Jan-17 03:21 PM, Marc Gemis wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: Placing of the hamlet (or other place) names is always fuzzy. Where it is now renders well on the map, if you place it centrally that may overwrite other objects - cluttering the map.

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-15 Thread Marc Gemis
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Placing of the hamlet (or other place) names is always fuzzy. Where it is > now renders well on the map, if you place it centrally that may overwrite > other objects - cluttering the map. That looks like mapping for the

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-15 Thread Warin
Not uncommon for a road to have several names along its length. Many main roads do this though towns - the Great Western Highway can have another name through the town then revert back to the Great Western Highway. I too, like Simon, would take some short section of this road and tag it

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-15 Thread Ross Scanlon
Split the way at the railway tracks, add name="Smith Street", add alt_name="Lalbert - Kerang Road" to the section west of the railway. Like this: http://map.fosm.org/browse/way/102503479#map/18/-35.676/143.377 Cheers Ross On 16/01/17 10:30, Simon Slater wrote: G'day all, We needed

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-15 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 16 January 2017 at 10:30, Simon Slater wrote: > How can I tag to reflect this, leaving > the Lalbert - Kerang tag for the bigger picture? > You can split the way, if the road changes name, and use the different names for different sections. At least if that matches up

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-15 Thread Andrew Davidson
If the street sign at the end says Smith St then that should go in as the name tag. Lalbert Kerang Rd can go in as the alt_name tag. On 16/01/17 10:30, Simon Slater wrote: G'day all, We needed our daughter to pick something up from Lalbert and since she had never driven there herself,

[talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-15 Thread Simon Slater
G'day all, We needed our daughter to pick something up from Lalbert and since she had never driven there herself, we looked up the map. However, Smith St did not appear, instead tagged as the Lalbert Kerang Rd, as here: https://