Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-27 Thread Andrew Davidson
On 28/04/18 14:01, Andrew Harvey wrote: So it should be what the road signs say +1 The intent of the destination tag appears to be allowing routers to say "follow the signs to ". ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.ope

Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-27 Thread Andrew Harvey
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:destination says: In the road system, the key destination=* describes the content of > signposts or ground writing indicating the names of the locations that the > tagged way is heading to. Thus navigation systems can refer to road signs > that the driver ac

Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-27 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
Would it depend on the router & how it gives the name? (Voice nav is turned off on mine, so I don't know!) Will it tell you, "Turn left into Whatever St" or will it be "Turn left towards Whichever suburb" Thanks Graeme On 28 April 2018 at 12:20, Joel H. wrote: > I guess now my question is,

Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-27 Thread Joel H.
I guess now my question is, do we need better definitions of the usage of the destination tag? I saw back on that North Lakes intersection linked before (https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/-27.24180/153.02459). That we had the destination= tag filled with the Suburb. Shouldn't this be the road

Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-24 Thread osm.talk-au
ng mistakes, I would have fixed them already. Cheers, Thorsten > -Original Message- > From: Michael > Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 2018 19:33 > To: 'OSM Australian Talk List' > Subject: Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right? > > Ok it seems the OSM websit

Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-24 Thread Michael
List' Subject: Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right? For some reason it wont show me the location of the pins when I go to that link. I had looked at that area once before and noticed some odd stuff in josm but left it alone. I've gone back in with josm and made some changes,

Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-24 Thread Michael
re we see it) then I would call it fixed. -Original Message- From: osm.talk...@thorsten.engler.id.au Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 2018 6:46 PM To: 'OSM Australian Talk List' Subject: Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right? From: Andrew Harvey Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 201

Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-24 Thread osm.talk-au
From: Andrew Harvey Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:01 To: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right? > I agree, if there if is not named via a sign or otherwise > on the ground then I would leave the name field on the link > road empty. Routers

Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-24 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 24 April 2018 at 14:28, Alex Sims wrote: > You might be mapping for the renderer. :) > > I have been not giving slip roads a name and making sure they are > highway=secondary_link, trunk_link etc, which is considered valid by Keep > Right, Geofabrik etc. It also makes sense on the ground as th

Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-23 Thread Alex Sims
Hi, You might be mapping for the renderer. :) I have been not giving slip roads a name and making sure they are highway=secondary_link, trunk_link etc, which is considered valid by Keep Right, Geofabrik etc. It also makes sense on the ground as there is no physical sign on the slip road to giv