Excellent. Thanks Steve. So how should a proposed road be tagged? Should it be highway=proposed Proposed=trunk Name=foo bypass?
Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Chilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 31 March 2008 20:53 > To: Dave Stubbs; Peter Miller > Cc: Talk Openstreetmap > Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass > > In an attempt to avoid this kind of "false tagging for rendering" I have a > submitted an addition to the mapnik style tonight. > It will render highway=construction or highway=proposed from z12 upwards. > It will also render a text label (based on name=) for z13 upwards. > Jamie's more sophisticated suggestions make sense but are not easily to > render at the moment. Perhaps we can work towards that time-based approach > later. > For now it would make a lot of sense for people to revisit roads under > construction they have tagged and follow this suggested scheme: > highway=construction > construction=foo (motorway, trunk, primary or whatever - if known) > name=Foo bypass, due to open Dec 08 (or whatever) > > PS: I haven't looked at the file but hope this doesn't throw osmarender > rules out, which I know picks something up to render construction > > Cheers > STEVE > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dave Stubbs > Sent: Mon 3/31/2008 6:03 PM > To: Peter Miller > Cc: Talk Openstreetmap > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed > bypass > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Peter Miller > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for that Robert. A few other questions: > > > > 1) How does one tag something that is being considered seriously > (such as > > the Mottram Tintwistle bypass), but which may well never get > built? I think > > I will just put the estimated build date given by the highways > agency for > > now. (I will also continue to use the tunnel trick to get it to > render in > > the mean time). > > > By "tunnel trick" I presume that you mean tag it as a tunnel so that > it turns up dotted, despite not being a tunnel, nor ever will be a > tunnel? > > That's not a trick, that's a dirty, dirty hack and should be stomped > on hard. > > If you want proposed roads to show up dotted then fix the renderer, > don't engage in phantom tagging. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
