Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-21 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi again! 2012/12/21 Ronnie Soak : > We don't force anybody to use a certain style. But we still say: If > you don't use the style we use, your work will neither be rendered nor > used by other consumers. That's not fully correct (in this context): it will be rendered and it will be used - but un

Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-21 Thread Ronnie Soak
Hi Martin, > >> 2. I have problems with the tag because it is (to my knowledge) the >> first 'meta-tag' to be actively used by consumers. >> It doesn't describe a feature of the real world but how a feature is >> described by our tagging. >> I much rather would like to see this information embedde

Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-21 Thread Martin Vonwald
HI Ronnie! 2012/12/21 Ronnie Soak : > I surely get the intention of enabeling renderers of any kind to draw > more precice representations of lanes on a way. > But I have two comments for you: > > 1. I think it PARTLY IS about position. Your tag does two things: > allowing the renderers to positio

Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-21 Thread Ronnie Soak
Hi Martin, I surely get the intention of enabeling renderers of any kind to draw more precice representations of lanes on a way. But I have two comments for you: 1. I think it PARTLY IS about position. Your tag does two things: allowing the renderers to position the lanes correctly in reference t

Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-21 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/12/20 Pieren : > I guess it's purely for rendering. Why not (like 'label'). But it's > only useful if you render lanes which is something I've not seen so > far (for nano mapping ?). Think of a navigation system with lane assistance - it's just a renderer with a very high zoom level. ;-) >

Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-20 Thread John F. Eldredge
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2012/12/20 Pieren : > > The point about car navigation systems is > > incorrect. It does not care about the highway way position (and no > GPS > > device is accurate enough to determine on which lane you are). > > > I wouldn't be so sure about that, professional GPS

Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/12/20 Pieren : > The point about car navigation systems is > incorrect. It does not care about the highway way position (and no GPS > device is accurate enough to determine on which lane you are). I wouldn't be so sure about that, professional GPS devices are that precise, and by combining s

Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-20 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Henning Scholland wrote: > For me this isn't a good alternative for "drawing" the highway as an area. > This is simple to understand and very flexible. It's not useful to have more > or less two ways of tagging. Maybe you could explain, why it is useful ? The wik

Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-20 Thread Henning Scholland
Am 20.12.2012 17:42, schrieb Martin Vonwald: You have one tag: placement. Its value tells you where the OSM-way is: * no tag -> in the middle of the road * transition -> not parallel to any lane * middle_of -> in the middle of on lane * right_of/left_of -> right or left of one lane. Too complica

Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-20 Thread Martin Vonwald
You have one tag: placement. Its value tells you where the OSM-way is: * no tag -> in the middle of the road * transition -> not parallel to any lane * middle_of -> in the middle of on lane * right_of/left_of -> right or left of one lane. Too complicated? 2012/12/20 Frederik Ramm : > Hi, > > > On

Re: [Tagging] Comments wanted: Placement

2012-12-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/20/2012 04:43 PM, Martin Vonwald wrote: Although it is still a draft I would like to get some feedback on this proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/placement Who is your target group - who do you think would be understanding and using this tagging scheme?