Re: [Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

2016-08-03 Thread Rory McCann
On 02/08/16 17:59, Clifford Snow wrote: > We tell people not to map for the renderer. In the same spirit shouldn't > we tell people not to let the limitations of the editor stop them from > mapping? "Mapping for the renderer" is when someone adds incorrect data, purely so it will show up nicely

Re: [Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

2016-08-02 Thread Martijn van Exel
Bill, To my mind the tools and infrastructure should be catering to the mappers' needs and not the other way around, so whatever reasonable requirements this tagging scheme may impose, the OSM platform should be able to absorb. Not my use of the word 'reasonable' --> in the spirit of OSM any

Re: [Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

2016-08-02 Thread Bill Ricker
As a mapper and map users whose household includes a wheelchair user, I applaud the idea of routable curb-cuts and crossings. What is the DB implication of urban ways trebling in ways, nodes is a discussion that needs to happen - is this a real or potential problem? Is it easy to extract/filter

Re: [Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

2016-08-02 Thread Martijn van Exel
Meg, I applaud more sidewalk data in OSM. I started adding them in SLC some time ago. Then went through a phase where I thought they were redundant and that we could cover every use case with the sidewalk=* tags on ways. Not so. Let me know if MapRoulette can help here. We did a similar

Re: [Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

2016-08-02 Thread Bryan Housel
Meg this is excellent! Thank you for sharing your plans with `talk-us` and `talk-us-pugetsound`. I’m looking forward to seeing this public data source imported into OpenStreetMap. Given that your team is located in Seattle and is very involved with the local community there, I don’t see any

Re: [Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

2016-08-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Meg, sidewalk tagging in OSM is a complex issue. The fact that sidewalks are not tagged as individual geometries is not purely a shortcoming, it is a compromise that keeps OSM data editable. Having individual geometries for every single sidewalk on the planet will not only massively increase

[Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

2016-08-02 Thread Meg Drouhard
Hello, We are proposing to import open municipal sidewalk data from the city of Seattle as described in this proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Seattle,_Washington/Sidewalk_Import. Imports will be tagged according to the sidewalk schema that we propose here: