Re: [Talk-transit] Vertical Levels (Layers) versus Altitude for stations

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Wood
2009/9/4 Peter Miller : > > In the absence of a vast building program of new monorails[1] as proposed by > Bill Ricker, I am beginning to think about mapping some of the more complex > transport interchanges here in the UK. I am currently adding platforms, > walkways and steps to the simpler statio

Re: [Talk-transit] Vertical Levels (Layers) versus Altitude for stations

2009-09-04 Thread Bill Ricker
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Peter Miller wrote: > Bill also talked about the use of the layer tag on some stations on the > monorail at Disney with the stations at layer 3 and the track at layer 2 and > I think it would be useful to talk about how we can usefully use layer tags > for complex in

Re: [Talk-transit] Vertical Levels (Layers) versus Altitude for stations

2009-09-04 Thread Christoph Boehme
Peter Miller wrote: > We would also need to consider slope, steps and lifts between layers > and the situation where a lift only connects some layers but not all > of them. A lift is currently represented as a single node because it > is vertical. How does one indicate which layers it conne

Re: [Talk-transit] Vertical Levels (Layers) versus Altitude for stations

2009-09-03 Thread Frankie Roberto
Hi Peter, good stuff, and I agree with your view that we should tag the "human understandable" levels. I'm not aware how how precisely these map to the layers tag (I'd always assumed that this was a hint to the renderer rather that conveying semantic information), however I see how that would work

[Talk-transit] Vertical Levels (Layers) versus Altitude for stations

2009-09-03 Thread Peter Miller
In the absence of a vast building program of new monorails[1] as proposed by Bill Ricker, I am beginning to think about mapping some of the more complex transport interchanges here in the UK. I am currently adding platforms, walkways and steps to the simpler stations that I know and am no