[OSM-talk] Bulk Uploading GPX files on the OSM website

2012-08-21 Thread Ben Robbins
Hi, A few of my issues with uploading gpx Files to OSM which I'd like to discuss, and put forward some suggestions. This may have a specific place to be discussed? I'm really not on top of mailing lists. Each few months I have about 100meg of gpx files to upload which is a very slow process

Re: [OSM-talk] Road cores and casings on standard Mapnik rendering

2012-01-20 Thread Ben Robbins
Can you give an example of a junction that doesn't look good to you? The z13-z18 links I previously gave seem not all to open, so instead here is a cropped z18 sections:http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Z18crop.pngIt best shows the common problems, coming from the core-casing width

Re: [OSM-talk] Road cores and casings on standard Mapnik rendering

2012-01-20 Thread Ben Robbins
Another Failed Link. Try this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/6/6a/Z18crop.png ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-26 Thread Ben Robbins
I wonder that noone, so far, mentioned that we had similar discussions on talk-de. Please, do not discuss only in GB. The sitiuation is even a bit more complicated because of law (especially for bikes) and we have foot/bicycle=official, too. I stoped using footway or cycleway at all. And do

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Ben Robbins
, and an access list. byway/bridleway/footway are access. track/path are physical. Therefore where you map x=track can be by itself, and you get what you want. Where I map x=track can go with y=footway and the UK can also be mapped correctly. It's so incredibly simple! Hi, On 05/21/2011 01:41 PM, Ben

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Ben Robbins
, and an access list. byway/bridleway/footway are access. track/path are physical. Therefore where you map x=track can be by itself, and you get what you want. Where I map x=track can go with y=footway and the UK can also be mapped correctly. It's so incredibly simple! Hi, On 05/21/2011 01:41 PM, Ben

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Ben Robbins
Nelson I agree with Richard and Frederik's suggestion that this is an issue only in the UK, and that you take it to a forum where everybody understands what the heck you're talking about. See previous reply. But may I make a suggestion? That the best way to resolve differences is to write

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Ben Robbins
That said, highway= implies that the object is a public or private way (US terms, but usable by the public), except for highway=service and highway=track. actually a highway=* is any kind of way, and access by the public might only be implied if no other access is tagged explicitly. Cheers,

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Ben Robbins
Ben Robbins schrieb: does seem like an incredably hacky way of solving this issue. Practically everything in OSM is done in a hacky way. And actually, that's probably the only way that works in a mostly unorganized, freedom-promoting community. If you want strictly logical organization

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Ben Robbins
Richard, I am appreciative of the lengthy reply, but I really feal like you haven't read what i have asked. Firstly let me say that I havn't been away for a long time. I simply haven't been editing much recently (I'm assuming you say this based on my edit log or something). I have read

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-21 Thread Ben Robbins
RichardB: I'm aware it's appeared before, that means nothing if theres still an issue. To class the tagging system as 'the wheel' is giving it far to much praise, the wheel is what would be great to have. are the following tags rendering on the main openstreetmap renderers? If so, can

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-21 Thread Ben Robbins
RichardB: This also makes me wonder, why do highway=bridleway or highway=byway still exist, if designation=public_bridleway is possible? What is a bridleway if not designated a bridleway?! ___ talk mailing

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-21 Thread Ben Robbins
Simon: To put it simply. There is 'can' and there is 'may'. Places one 'can' go, and places one 'may'. I can walk across my neighbours lawn, but I may not. I may choose to take a footway where I 'can' walk on a track, then take another footway where i 'may' walk where i 'can' on a path.

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-21 Thread Ben Robbins
Simon: There is no such thing as a track as an access right in the UK. I merely give this example becuase I am talking generally, and apparently they do exist elsewhere, and this has been insistend relentlessly by others in the past, so I'm just going with that. In the UK there is no use

[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-21 Thread Ben Robbins
are the following tags rendering on the main openstreetmap renderers? If so, can designation=public_footpath appear without highway=footway. If so, that does then bring up the issue of good rendering, and I think you are conflating two things: in tagging, it makes sense to

[OSM-talk] Ben's Consise Compendium of OSM issues - Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-20 Thread Ben Robbins
Hi, I don't usually partake in the mailing list, so it probably looks like I just appear like I'm popping up and stirring trouble, but this is such a massive problem for mapping in the UK rural areas, I've really just given up until some way of making it possible is enabled, because it’s so