Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-11-11 Thread Martijn van Exel
@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping James, Thanks for the feedback. This is of course not good. I will make sure we will be more careful with both the lane counts and the relations not getting broken! I apologize. Did you fix the relations? If not I will. I hadn't

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-11-09 Thread Martijn van Exel
: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel represents the situation on the ground better than their original state, and because of that, works better

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-11-09 Thread James Mast
From: marti...@telenav.com Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 11:31:55 -0500 To: rickmastfa...@hotmail.com CC: ste...@telenav.com; krist...@telenav.com; robe...@telenav.com; chr...@telenav.com; talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping James, Thanks

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-11-08 Thread Evin Fairchild
To: Martijn van Exel; OSM US Talk Cc: ste...@telenav.com; krist...@telenav.com; Stack, Robert; chr...@telenav.com Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping Martijn (and other telenav workers), I just happened to see some intersections in my area tweaked today. If you're going to be changing

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-21 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: It *is* incorrect to map in contravention to the description in the Wiki. It *is* incorrect to map without the wiki containing an explanation of how you map. If there are a dozen different ways to enter a stop sign into

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-21 Thread James Mast
From: marti...@telenav.com Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:40:11 -0600 To: nel...@crynwr.com CC: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping One followup question I do have is about one of the other examples of elaborate intersections Minh raised

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread James Mast
After hands down. That's how I do intersections like that with one minor difference. If the road on the right (as in the example) doesn't have a divider, I merge the ways before leaving the intersection so I would have 3 traffic light nodes instead of 4. -James

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2013-10-14 10:42 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/15 Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us ** Example A ** Ryans Way and Sycamore Grove Ln. meet Fields Ertel Rd. at the same intersection. Fields Ertel is undivided. Ryans Way is briefly divided at the subdivision entrance, a very common configuration in newer subdivisions, but

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Alexander Jones
James Mast wrote: After hands down. That's how I do intersections like that with one minor difference. If the road on the right (as in the example) doesn't have a divider, I merge the ways before leaving the intersection so I would have 3 traffic light nodes instead of 4. -James That's

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi Minh - Thanks for clarifying the more specific cases. I realize that my example would not cover all the possible permutations. Thank you for bringing more specific cases to the table. My colleague Kristen also has some more specific examples I know she intends to share here. Your specific

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Stellan Lagerström
On 2013-10-15 4:12 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: I apologize for the confusion around the term 'braiding' - we used this term internally for a while (and it ended up in some changeset comments) not realizing that this had a different meaning that traces back to the TIGER source data. To me, the

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread stevea
I just want to emphasize that there are (at least) two separate but related issues here: 1) Whether the before or after style is preferred or more correct, 2) What a routing algorithm (potentially yet-to-be-coded or now-actually coded) does with either or both. Regarding 1), it appears

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Tod Fitch
People will map as they see fit and, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, it is not possible to correct all instances of all variations. That said, the wiki is replete with guidance on preferred tagging for various features so it is not out of line to work toward a preferred method of

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
Just to check, in the case of number 3, if a traffic signal was present at the above direction, would there have to be two traffic signal for the up-and-down two-way road? Saikrishna Arcot On Tue 15 Oct 2013 03:14:13 PM EDT, Tod Fitch wrote: People will map as they see fit and, as pointed out

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-15 Thread Tod Fitch
It would be tagged as described at http://wiki.openstreetmaps.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals#Tag_all_incoming_ways Tod -- Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity. Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.com wrote: Just to check, in the case of number 3, if a traffic signal was

[Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel represents the situation on the ground better than their original state, and because of that, works better for us. We have received some feedback on our

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.comwrote: Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel represents the situation on the ground better than their original

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/14/13 1:52 PM, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com mailto:marti...@telenav.com wrote: Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we have set about editing some of these intersections in a

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/14 Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection:

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread stevea
So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e One of my colleagues at Telenav has remapped this

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/14 stevea stevea...@softworkers.com Hi Martijn: one thing wrong I do see at this particular intersection are extraneous nodes with highway=crossing tags: two extra ones on the (northerly) east-west ped-path and one extra one each of the (westerly and easterly) north-south ped-paths.

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
To expand on the point of having both methods used, starting with the multiple intersection points method, what if all four intersection points were under a relation of a group of intersections, and the number of lanes on each way was marked? That way, routing algorithms could convert from the

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Tod Fitch
The latter (after) version matches the traffic signal wiki http://wiki.openstreetmaps.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals#Tag_all_incoming_ways It makes sense to me and is the way I prefer. Tod -- Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity. Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Stellan Lagerström
I prefer, and always use, the after pattern. /Stellan On 2013-10-14 7:42 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel represents the situation on the ground better

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Evin Fairchild
I too prefer the after pattern since it is easier to do, especially when you are making a road be dual-carriageway by using the parallel way feature in Potlatch 2. Also, it matches the way it is on the ground better. Since there seems to be unanimous agreement to map intersections this way, then

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread John F. Eldredge
Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 10/14/13 1:52 PM, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com mailto:marti...@telenav.com wrote: Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we