Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-20 Thread Nick Bolten
That is an interesting case! Looking at mapillary, it looks like part of it is paved. I'm not sure whether that makes it a footway or not, but it looks incredibly dangerous to cross there: https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=53.91808029997222&lng=-1.164232900018&z=17.363583160262273&focus=photo

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-20 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 20:58, Andy Townsend wrote: > > Adding ways where people might think there ought to be ways (but there > aren't really) is certainly established. As an example, > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/691036735 is one that I did > yesterday. Historically I suspect that there

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-20 Thread Andy Townsend
On 20/05/2019 06:20, Nick Bolten wrote: > if you are having trouble where people are “fixing” your mapping, then draw a way with no highway=* tag put crossing=no on it. Is this an established strategy? I'd be happy to promote it + update the wiki if it's communally supported. If it's not neces

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Nick Bolten
> I’ve read that whole previous discussion, and from my point of view it was just a whole bunch of completely useless noise, with everyone telling you that you aren’t making sense and you ignoring it and bulldozing your way forward. Ah, and incidentally, I'd say I have the exact opposite problem:

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Nick Bolten
oring it and bulldozing your way > forward. > > > > *From:* Nick Bolten > *Sent:* Monday, 20 May 2019 10:48 > *To:* Tag discussion, strategy and related tools < > tagging@openstreetmap.org> > *Subject:* Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Nick Bolten
> if you are having trouble where people are “fixing” your mapping, then draw a way with no highway=* tag put crossing=no on it. Is this an established strategy? I'd be happy to promote it + update the wiki if it's communally supported. If it's not necessarily an established strategy, I'd also be

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread osm.tagging
discussion, strategy and related tools Subject: Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions It's a little disappointing to see these points rehashed given the lengthy recent discussions, but at the risk of creating a new massive thread I'd like to

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread John Willis via Tagging
> On May 20, 2019, at 9:52 AM, Nick Bolten wrote: > > Unfortunately, people will draw the crossing if there isn't negative > information there saying to stop doing that, e.g. crossing=no if you are having trouble where people are “fixing” your mapping, then draw a way with no highway=* tag

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread osm.tagging
(as barrier=fence) and add the crossing=no tag to the road itself. From: Graeme Fitzpatrick Sent: Monday, 20 May 2019 07:57 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools Subject: Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions On Mon, 20 May 201

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Nick Bolten
Hey Markus, This is a very good example that I somehow forgot to add to any of my replies / the wiki. Thank you for reminding me! There are certainly many crossings that have pedestrian signals but are tagged with the flavor du jour of crossing=marked because the latter can be mapped from aerial

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Nick Bolten
> if you do not draw the ways for people to cross, then they don’t exist, right? Unfortunately, people will draw the crossing if there isn't negative information there saying to stop doing that, e.g. crossing=no. I'd add crossing=no to that particular place in addition to your recommendations. Thi

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Nick Bolten
or some other indication that this is a commonly used crossing point. > > uncontrolled/zebra/marked - there are road markings, but no signals that > control traffic flow, that make it clear to both road and pedestrian > traffic that this is a designated crossing point > > traf

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 20. May 2019, at 02:00, John Willis via Tagging > wrote: > > Draw the fence. +1, I would also suggest for fences and walls to tag the height. Cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://list

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread John Willis via Tagging
> On May 20, 2019, at 6:57 AM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Draw the fence Draw the fence. access=no if you do not draw the ways for people to cross, then they don’t exist, right? where people have made narrow footpaths (without breaking barriers, such as paths over a hill between two

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 02:32, wrote: Pretty well agree with everything you said, Thorsten, but I'd like to clarify one point thanks. no - there is no crossing possible/legal here > Understand the idea, but how do we actually use it? The fence here https://www.google.com/maps/@-28.0725198,153.4

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 19. May 2019, at 18:30, > wrote: > > "The "traffic_signals" namespace is used to describe both vehicular traffic > signals and pedestrian/bicycle traffic signals, to everyone's confusion." > > This statement is simply completely factually wrong. > > a) traffic_signa

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Markus
On Sun, 19 May 2019 at 18:32, wrote: > > Personally, I can not remember having ever seen, in my whole life, a signal > controlled pedestrian crossing that does not have road markings, excluding > cases where there are temporarily no road markings at all because they > haven't been painted yet a

Re: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread osm.tagging
age- > From: Markus > Sent: Monday, 20 May 2019 00:37 > To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools > > Subject: [Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related > questions > > Hi Nick, hi everyone, > > I welcome these proposals (crossing=

[Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

2019-05-19 Thread Markus
Hi Nick, hi everyone, I welcome these proposals (crossing=marked, crossing:signals=* and footway=island) [1] to bring order to the pedestrian crossing tagging. Thank you, Nick, for your efforts so far! I have two questions, not about the proposals themselves, but about pedestrian crossing tagging