Re: [Talk-us] named links

2018-07-03 Thread Paul Johnson
This summarizes the approach I take towards this in regards to named or reffed links. At least until we start consistently expecting tags on entities to apply to those entities instead of a completely different entity. Adding ref to ways instead of the relation that describes the route is

Re: [Talk-us] named links

2018-07-03 Thread Evin Fairchild
There are some cases where naming link roads makes sense. For example, I tag the roads coming out of roundabouts as link roads (especially if it's something like a residential road intersecting, a note important road like a secondary road, and I tag the slip roads for that leg of the roundabout as

Re: [Talk-us] named links

2018-07-03 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
While I don't have "a dog in this fight," I also read our wiki which says "Link roads NORMALLY do not have names." (Emphasis mine). In the unusual (abnormal?) cases where they do (and I trust Paul wouldn't have added them unless they do), there is no contradiction with our wiki, rather an

[Talk-us] Talks and Scholarship Submissions Extended SOTM-US

2018-07-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, We've extended the call for participation and scholarships until July 14th for SOTM-US. http://2018.stateofthemap.us/ State of the Map US is an annual gathering of volunteers, mappers, organizations and businesses who collaborate and work with OpenStreetMap. This year we are getting