Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 March 2011 15:55, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 13/03/11 15:41, Ed Loach wrote: You've probably seen the numerous edits by chriscf. Can anyone explain the purpose of these edits what the the tags below even mean? I can try, but The bot appears to be adding a

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Andy Street
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 16:48 +, Peter Miller wrote: On 13 March 2011 15:55, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 13/03/11 15:41, Ed Loach wrote: You've probably seen the numerous edits by chriscf. Can anyone

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Ian Spencer
Tim Franois wrote on 16/03/2011 17:04: pedant

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Kevin Peat
On 16 March 2011 17:00, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Then there are the '30mph' which should for consistency be '30 mph' (with a space). I don't see the point of editing just for consistency. Developers should handle leading/trailing spaces, or the lack thereof, and

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Colin Smale
On 16/03/2011 18:00, Peter Miller wrote: My understanding is that the signed speed limits are those that must be obeyed by those classes of vehicles that are not limited by some other rule. I don't consider that we need to do more that we are which is to reflect the street sign in the data.

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Ian Spencer
Kevin Peat wrote on 16/03/2011 17:27: On 16 March 2011 17:00, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Then there are the '30mph' which should for consistency be '30 mph' (with a space).

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Peter Miller
On 16 March 2011 17:43, Ian Spencer ianmspen...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Peat wrote on 16/03/2011 17:27: On 16 March 2011 17:00, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Then there are the '30mph' which should for consistency be '30 mph' (with a space). I don't see the point of

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Peter Miller
On 16 March 2011 17:38, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 16/03/2011 18:00, Peter Miller wrote: My understanding is that the signed speed limits are those that must be obeyed by those classes of vehicles that are not limited by some other rule. I don't consider that we need to do

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Richard Bullock
In summary, this little tag is much less simple than it may appear at first glance! I am very interested in getting a fuller set of this data into OSM. Thanks for the 'pedantic' examples of 60mph limits on dual carriageways. Being pedantic back can anyone demonstrate the existence of a 60 mph

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Graham Jones
A few months ago there was a proposal to define defaults for given areas so you only tag exceptions. That sounded very sensible to me, but I do not know what happened to it. Graham from my phone On 16 Mar 2011 18:59, Richard Bullock rb...@cantab.net wrote: In summary, this little tag is

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Peter Miller
On 16 March 2011 18:58, Richard Bullock rb...@cantab.net wrote: In summary, this little tag is much less simple than it may appear at first glance! I am very interested in getting a fuller set of this data into OSM. Thanks for the 'pedantic' examples of 60mph limits on dual carriageways.

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Bullock wrote: Do we *really* need to be tagging national speed limits on individual ways? E.g. the vast majority of roads ought to be one of; *residential roads subject to 30mph *rural roads subject to NSL Perhaps we could tag the ones that differ from the above - and let

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread MarkS
On 16/03/2011 19:31, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Richard Bullock wrote: Do we *really* need to be tagging national speed limits on individual ways? E.g. the vast majority of roads ought to be one of; *residential roads subject to 30mph *rural roads subject to NSL Perhaps we could tag the ones that

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Hill
On 16/03/11 19:51, Matt Williams wrote: Greetings all, For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5 queries a day limit without an account) [1] but based entirely on data in the OSM database. You can

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

2011-03-16 Thread Matt Williams
On 16 March 2011 21:12, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: For anyone wanting to add postcodes to addresses you can use the postcode layer in JOSM or Potlatch 2 described here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Chillly/codepoint If your postcode area is not yet in the layer (see the

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread Dave F.
On 13/03/2011 12:27, Dave F. wrote: Hi You've probably seen the numerous edits by chriscf. Well, after reading up on this, I kind of understand what the source:maxspeed is used for, but I'm not happy that chriscf has guessed that value for key tags that were added by other users. As