Re: [Talk-GB] Quiet lanes and "one car per minute"

2011-01-26 Thread Gregory
The traffic is a fluctuating measurement. OpenStreetMap is about the objects and networks on the ground. Yes your idea is good and I've had a similar idea with bicycle parking (when is a rack full, empty, or in-between). It makes sense to keep it in a designated database. When one enters data they

Re: [Talk-GB] Quiet lanes and "one car per minute"

2011-01-26 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 26 January 2011 18:02, SomeoneElse wrote: > On 26/01/2011 17:24, Ralph Smyth wrote: >> >> You can see the sign by rule 218 of >> the Highway Code, although some pre-2006 schemes used a different sign: >> www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069858 >> So there should be a 'quie

Re: [Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down?

2011-01-26 Thread Grant Slater
On 26 January 2011 17:58, m902 wrote: > http://os.openstreetmap.org/data/ is timing out for me. > This has happened frequently over the past couple of weeks. > Then an hour or so later it's OK again. > Perhaps crashing and restarting? > Anyone else seeing this, and anyone know what's wrong? It is

Re: [Talk-GB] Quiet lanes and "one car per minute"

2011-01-26 Thread SomeoneElse
On 26/01/2011 17:24, Ralph Smyth wrote: You can see the sign by rule 218 of the Highway Code, although some pre-2006 schemes used a different sign: www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069858 So there should be a 'quiet_lane' value for highway, just as there is 'living_street'.

[Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down?

2011-01-26 Thread m902
http://os.openstreetmap.org/data/ is timing out for me. This has happened frequently over the past couple of weeks. Then an hour or so later it's OK again. Perhaps crashing and restarting? Anyone else seeing this, and anyone know what's wrong? Martin __

Re: [Talk-GB] Quiet lanes and "one car per minute"

2011-01-26 Thread Ralph Smyth
In terms of existing traffic count data, the problem is that generally (and indeed as is the case in Oxfordshire) it tends to be available only for A and B roads rather than many unclassified (and C) roads. The problem with marking lightly trafficked roads as 'quiet lanes' on OSM is that this is