Re: [Tagging] symmetrical guardrails

2015-07-12 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 11.07.2015 11:33, Joachim wrote: > Just draw a closed way. This also represents the reality since there > are two rails. But no two set of posts etc., which would be assumed with your mapping. I think two_sided=yes would work well: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/two_sided _

Re: [Tagging] symmetrical guardrails

2015-07-12 Thread Volker Schmidt
My original question arouse from guardrails that separate a cycle path from the road. The normal approach here is that the smooth "inner" side is towards the car traffic and the rough side (support structure) towards the cycle path. In the examples http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/9-9-x8ynIiIdpNQHeA

Re: [Tagging] symmetrical guardrails

2015-07-11 Thread John Eldredge
That seems reasonable. I was responding to the idea, stated in the original definition, that the right side of a guardrail would always be the inner side of the guardrail, and the left side would always be outside. In practice, guard rails can be present on either, or both, sides of a roadway,

Re: [Tagging] symmetrical guardrails

2015-07-11 Thread johnw
> On Jul 12, 2015, at 4:41 AM, John Eldredge wrote: > > Depending upon which side of the road the guardrail is on, either the left > side or right side may be inner. If there is a distinct inner and outer side, > the inner side will always be towards the traffic. > > Japanese motorway barrie

Re: [Tagging] symmetrical guardrails

2015-07-11 Thread John Eldredge
Depending upon which side of the road the guardrail is on, either the left side or right side may be inner. If there is a distinct inner and outer side, the inner side will always be towards the traffic. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light

Re: [Tagging] symmetrical guardrails

2015-07-11 Thread Joachim
Just draw a closed way. This also represents the reality since there are two rails. 2015-07-11 11:04 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt : > The wiki page > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dguard_rail > says: > "If there is a clear inner/outer demarcation to the guard rail, construct > the li

[Tagging] symmetrical guardrails

2015-07-11 Thread Volker Schmidt
The wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dguard_rail says: "If there is a clear inner/outer demarcation to the guard rail, construct the line so that the *right side is inner* and *left side is outer*." Often you find perfectly symmetric guardrails (example: http://www.mapillar