Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-06 Thread Dion Dock
> >> Hello, >> >> In my neighborhood there are some unpaved residential streets. How >> should those be tagged? >> >> highway=track >> >> highway=residential >> surface=unpaved > > I would tend to go with highway=track unless the street in question > is a > gravelled over macadam or some other se

Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-06 Thread Greg Troxel
Paul Johnson writes: > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 07:30 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> It depends on what the road is like. If it's a decent dirt road that >> normal cars routinely drive on, has a street name, is considered a >> public or private way by the town, then it's highway=residential >> surf

Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-06 Thread Greg Troxel
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Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-06 Thread Greg Troxel
Paul Johnson writes: > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 07:30 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> It depends on what the road is like. If it's a decent dirt road that >> normal cars routinely drive on, has a street name, is considered a >> public or private way by the town, then it's highway=residential >> surf

Re: [Talk-us] Garmin OSM map for whole US

2009-09-06 Thread Peter Batty
A bit of a sweeping generalization there Paul :). There are lots of people who travel frequently on business all over the US - I have been one of them, though less so these days. Often trips might be at short notice and take in multiple states. It's also very common for people to take road trips ac

Re: [Talk-us] Garmin OSM map for whole US

2009-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 11:24 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > Surely I'm not the only person that needs a USA exrtact, though. Is > there really no one that has one available. I'm not sure it's a common need, considering that most US states are larger than most countries in terms of geography, with mo

Re: [Talk-us] Garmin OSM map for whole US

2009-09-06 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 16:06 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 10:23 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > For those of you that don't know, Cloudmade has some really cool > > ready-made maps available for download. I know they work on Garmin > > devices, but there are probably some others

Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 13:44 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: > Ok, how about this: implied tags should be the exception, not the > rule. OK, you can get right on going over every one way street and explicitly listing the turn restriction relations on every intersection, even though they're already implied

Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 07:30 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > It depends on what the road is like. If it's a decent dirt road that > normal cars routinely drive on, has a street name, is considered a > public or private way by the town, then it's highway=residential > surface=unpaved. > > If when driv

Re: [Talk-us] Garmin OSM map for whole US

2009-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 10:23 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > For those of you that don't know, Cloudmade has some really cool > ready-made maps available for download. I know they work on Garmin > devices, but there are probably some others. > > http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america/unite

Re: [Talk-us] question: relations & divided highways

2009-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:28 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: > I've been using one relation for both directions, but wasn't there a > concern about the maximum number of items in a relation a while ago? I > don't remember what we decided after that discussion. Non-trivial freeways (ie, freeways longer or

Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 10:13 -0400, Nakor wrote: > Hello, > > In my neighborhood there are some unpaved residential streets. How > should those be tagged? > > highway=track > > highway=residential > surface=unpaved I would tend to go with highway=track unless the street in question is a gravell