Re: [Tagging] OSMI layers in JOSM

2012-04-26 Thread Martin Vonwald
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I don't want to make the whole layer transparent (I know how to do that), but only the background, i.e. I only want to see the errors. I thought that this TRANSPARENT=TRUE will achieve this, but either I applied it wrong or it simply doesn't work this way. Martin

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Martin Vonwald
To give you an advance warning: the updated article is finished and currently available here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Imagic/Werkstatt If there are no major objections I will update the lanes article tomorrow. Minor objections we can further discuss after the update - otherwise it

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Philip Barnes
Please could someone confirm what Spitsstrook is? It looks like use of the hard shoulder on managed sections of motorway, but I cannot read dutch. We have these on the M6 and M42. Thanks Phil On 26/04/2012 10:30 Martin Vonwald wrote: To give you an advance warning: the updated article is fini

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Martin Vonwald
It is an additional lane that will be opened for the general traffic during rush hours. What I have seen in the Netherlands it is used as emergency lanes at other times. Martin 2012/4/26 Philip Barnes : > Please could someone confirm what Spitsstrook is? It looks like use of the > hard shoulder o

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Colin Smale
There are three cases in NL, all referred to as "spitsstrook" (literally, rush-hour lane): 1) the hard shoulder is sometimes opened to traffic, creating an extra lane on the right 2) the left-most lane is sometimes open (if traffic is heavier), and sometimes closed (if the extra capacity is no

Re: [Tagging] OSMI layers in JOSM

2012-04-26 Thread fly
Hey Martin Sorry I am neither an expert in WMS, but as JOSM has changed a lot and if you do not find it in any documentation it would be the best to ask at josm-dev@ and either document it yourself or open a ticket about missing documentation. Cheers fly

[Tagging] "contact:phone" or "phone" to combine with "amenity=telephone"

2012-04-26 Thread Pieren
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtelephone is saying that the phone box number has to be tagged with "contact:phone". The "contact:" namespace has been discussed here (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-May/007631.html) and some good arguments have been raised ag

Re: [Tagging] "contact:phone" or "phone" to combine with "amenity=telephone"

2012-04-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 26. April 2012 14:47 schrieb Pieren : > Can we use the taginfo stats to revert the change made the 2nd may > 2010 where "phone" has been replaced by "contact:phone" and add a big > "deprecate" notice on the "contact:" namespace wiki ? (overall, we > still have 10 times more "phone" than "contact

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Georg Feddern
Am 26.04.2012 13:07, schrieb Colin Smale: 1) the hard shoulder is sometimes opened to traffic, creating an extra lane on the right this case is used in Germany in several regions e.g. http://www.staufreieshessen2015.hessen.de/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/slimp.CMReader/HMWVL_15/Staufrei_Inte

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/4/26 Georg Feddern : > Shall this lane > - be counted - because it is a managed lane, but that it is only sometimes > - or not - because it is most of the time an emergency lane Yes, it shall be counted, because it is all the time a managed lane, that is sometimes open for traffic and sometim

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 26. April 2012 15:37 schrieb Martin Vonwald : > 2012/4/26 Georg Feddern : >> Shall this lane >> - be counted - because it is a managed lane, but that it is only sometimes >> - or not - because it is most of the time an emergency lane > > Yes, it shall be counted, because it is all the time a man

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Martin Vonwald
I added a sentence explaining what a "managed lane" is. Understandable now? 2012/4/26 Georg Feddern : > Am 26.04.2012 13:07, schrieb Colin Smale: > >> 1) the hard shoulder is sometimes opened to traffic, creating an extra >> lane on the right > > > this case is used in Germany in several regions

Re: [Tagging] area=yes on polygones (was Block names)

2012-04-26 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > Where did I mention a renderer? If you draw a closed polygon with > railway=platform, that's a continuous platform with a hole in the middle. > There may be a few cases of such in real life at a complicated junction. If so, they should be

Re: [Tagging] "contact:phone" or "phone" to combine with "amenity=telephone"

2012-04-26 Thread Mike N
On 4/26/2012 8:51 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Can we use the taginfo stats to revert the change made the 2nd may > 2010 where "phone" has been replaced by "contact:phone" and add a big > "deprecate" notice on the "contact:" namespace wiki ? (overall, we > still have 10 times more "phone" th

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Jason Cunningham
On 26 April 2012 10:30, Martin Vonwald wrote: > To give you an advance warning: the updated article is finished and > currently available here: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Imagic/Werkstatt > > If there are no major objections I will update the lanes article > tomorrow. > I suppose

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 26. April 2012 20:03 schrieb Jason Cunningham : > Major problem: You've haven't adequately dealt with the lanes=1.5 issue. > You've suggested something that can't solve the issue, but simply looks like > an attempt to cleanse it from the lanes tag and forget about it. IMHO it would be a good i

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread Martin Vonwald (Imagic)
Am 26.04.2012 um 20:03 schrieb Jason Cunningham : > Major problem: You've haven't adequately dealt with the lanes=1.5 issue. > You've suggested something that can't solve the issue, but simply looks like > an attempt to cleanse it from the lanes tag and forget about it. Actually I thought it wa

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-26 Thread John F. Eldredge
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Am 26. April 2012 20:03 schrieb Jason Cunningham > : > > Major problem: You've haven't adequately dealt with the lanes=1.5 > issue. > > You've suggested something that can't solve the issue, but simply > looks like > > an attempt to cleanse it from the lanes tag and f

Re: [Tagging] area=yes on polygones (was Block names)

2012-04-26 Thread Tobias Knerr
Anthony wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> Where did I mention a renderer? If you draw a closed polygon with >> railway=platform, that's a continuous platform with a hole in the middle. >> There may be a few cases of such in real life at a complicated junction. >