Re: [Tagging] symmetrical guardrails

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] service=rural (Was Rural Alley?)

sent from a phone > Am 11.07.2015 um 14:43 schrieb John Willis : > > I look forward to more feedback before drawing up a wiki page, but you can > see my reasoning and 2 good examples below. This is something not covered > well by track+grade1 IMO and below unclassified IMO. if they've conn

Re: [Tagging] service=rural (Was Rural Alley?)

sent from a phone > Am 11.07.2015 um 14:43 schrieb John Willis : > > Maybe this occurs in Europe too, "Europe" is big and diverse, it really depends on the country and place. There're huge differences regarding the road structure (and not only) between the German south west and the German n

Re: [Tagging] service=rural (Was Rural Alley?)

sent from a phone > Am 12.07.2015 um 02:07 schrieb johnw : > > Imagine you live on a farm and you’ve never seen a a big city's alley - how > would you explain why there is a narrow road next to the main road? my guess is that the reason for these roads is agricultural traffic (slow) that wo

Re: [Tagging] service=rural (Was Rural Alley?)

sent from a phone > Am 12.07.2015 um 03:39 schrieb Andrew Errington : > > To me, the hierarchy is obvious: motorway, trunk, primary, secondary, > tertiary, unclassified, service, residential, track almost agree but would switch service and residential cheers Martin __

Re: [Tagging] How to recognize memorial from monument?

sent from a phone > Am 11.07.2015 um 13:03 schrieb Daniel Koć : > > Definitions on Wiki are not clear and I think they need some love to make > them easier to use in practice: +1, basically these are similar features and there are no clear distinctive criteria to decide edge cases. The diff

Re: [Tagging] symmetrical guardrails

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 _

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Blood donation 2

Voting is now open on the modified proposal: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Blood_donation_2 ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] service=rural (Was Rural Alley?)

> On Jul 12, 2015, at 10:34 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > > > sent from a phone > >> Am 11.07.2015 um 14:43 schrieb John Willis : >> >> I look forward to more feedback before drawing up a wiki page, but you can >> see my reasoning and 2 good examples below. This is something not co

Re: [Tagging] service=rural (Was Rural Alley?)

> On Jul 12, 2015, at 10:34 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > Maybe you have to raise your current unclassified roads to tertiary to make > room for these roads in question? Japan tagging rules (on the wiki) states only roads with a painted center line can be tagged tertiary. Japan has a

Re: [Tagging] service=rural (Was Rural Alley?)

> On Jul 12, 2015, at 10:34 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > agricultural traffic The farmers access their fields using small, yet common kei trucks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck ) that are used all over Japan in urban and rural envir

Re: [Tagging] service=rural (Was Rural Alley?)

This is the same in Korea. Tagging the roads based on their physical characteristics (such as roadsign type, and with or without centre lines) is an excellent way to avoid subjective judgements. Roads that go somewhere, but have no painted line, are unclassified. These roads we are talking about

Re: [Tagging] service=rural (Was Rural Alley?)

I think Javbw and I are in agreement, but I don't think a subtag is required. Just highway=service (and no service=* tag). Andrew On 13 July 2015 at 10:22, Andrew Errington wrote: > This is the same in Korea. Tagging the roads based on their physical > characteristics (such as roadsign type,

Re: [Tagging] service=rural (Was Rural Alley?)

In Japan and Korea, do you tend to have isolated farmhouses, each on its own farm (the most common pattern in the USA), or do the farmers tend to settle in villages, from which they travel out to their farms (the traditional European format)? Another pattern in the US, among small communities