Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-10 Thread Kevin Peat
On Dec 10, 2012 1:25 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote No. We should be mapping physical objects... There are plenty of non-physical objects mapped in OSM but I don't see the point of adding road schemes to the db before contracts are awarded. The South Devon Link Road near me was in

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-10 Thread Lester Caine
Kevin Peat wrote: No. We should be mapping physical objects... There are plenty of non-physical objects mapped in OSM but I don't see the point of adding road schemes to the db before contracts are awarded. The South Devon Link Road near me was in the planning stage for more than 25 years

[Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread cotswolds mapper
There are lots of roads where I map which have Unfit for motors signs (blue/white advisory) but are normal maintained roads in limited but regular use. Typically they are narrowish, with lots of bends and often steep. In general anything up to maybe the size of a skip lorry can get through (though

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Aidan McGinley
motor_vehicl http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehiclee=no should suffice I would have thought? On 10 December 2012 13:36, cotswolds mapper osmcotswo...@gmail.com wrote: There are lots of roads where I map which have Unfit for motors signs (blue/white advisory) but are normal

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Rounce
from the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features motor_vehicl http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehiclee=no Access permission for any motorized vehicle these routes do have access permission, but are signed as unsuitable/unfit which is more advisory Best Wishes Peter

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Gregory Williams
motor_vehicle=no says that motor vehicles aren't legally allowed along the road. That's not the case as Aidan has pointed out that these are the blue-backed advisory signs. If going with the commonly-used tags then I think that, whilst it's still technically not right, motor_vehicle=destination

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 10 December 2012 15:11, Gregory Williams greg...@gregorywilliams.me.uk wrote: I think that changing the class of the road to service isn’t the best way of recording the data. These roads will quite often legally be an unclassified highway and changing the class away from that just isn’t

Re: [Talk-GB] Added road schemes announced in the Autumn Statement in OSM

2012-12-10 Thread Dave F.
On 10/12/2012 08:18, Kevin Peat wrote: On Dec 10, 2012 1:25 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com mailto:dave...@madasafish.com wrote No. We should be mapping physical objects... There are plenty of non-physical objects mapped in OSM As primary tags? Dave F.

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: Instead I've used highway=track based on the physical appearance, and then added designation= unclassified_highway to record the legal classification. Agreed: I often do something similar. In this case, though, I'm not entirely comfortable with highway=service