Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'add=milestone'

2019-10-09 Thread Agustin Rissoli
> > this implies road markers must be present, right? Isn’t this mainly about the > distance from some zero point, even in the absence of road distance markers? > > No, many times there are no marks, for me it does not have to be implicit I would not invent myself these numbers, I would copy them

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'add=milestone'

2019-10-09 Thread François Lacombe
Hi, I just want to bring to your attention the work currently done to propose marker=* key with existing value marker=stone. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Utility_markers_proposal#Tagging This is mainly intended for utility networks but may be useful for highways milestone

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'add=milestone'

2019-10-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mi., 9. Okt. 2019 um 15:11 Uhr schrieb Paul Allen : > ...some mad king throwing darts at a map: if it looks like a house number, > is treated like a house > number, and appears on the house/gate/whatever as a house number, then > it's a house number. > House numbers don't have to be sequential

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'add=milestone'

2019-10-09 Thread Paul Allen
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 09:39, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > Funfact, in Rome there is one road, "Via Trionfale", > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Trionfale which has housenumbers > (contrary to the rest of the city) that indicate the distance from the > capitol hill measured at the axxis of th

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'add=milestone'

2019-10-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mi., 9. Okt. 2019 um 09:00 Uhr schrieb Colin Smale : > I would just like to make a point about mileages/kilometrages. Physically > marked positions (e.g. a milestone or a sign with an address) can not be > replaced by, or derived from, the actual distance along the road. > > These distances are

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'add=milestone'

2019-10-09 Thread Colin Smale
I would just like to make a point about mileages/kilometrages. Physically marked positions (e.g. a milestone or a sign with an address) can not be replaced by, or derived from, the actual distance along the road. These distances are not constant. Roads get diverted, split, recombined etc which ca

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'add=milestone'

2019-10-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 9. Oct 2019, at 03:24, Jorge Aguirre wrote: > > After reading all the responses and comments made regarding this issue I > would like to modify the originally proposed tag name ('addr=milestone’) to a > new proposal to name it: ‘addr=road_marker’ - which works for bot

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'add=milestone'

2019-10-08 Thread Jorge Aguirre
After reading all the responses and comments made regarding this issue I would like to modify the originally proposed tag name ('addr=milestone’) to a new proposal to name it: ‘addr=road_marker’ - which works for both the kilometer and mile highway location markers. The next step will be to pr