Re: [Tagging] Variable position

2017-12-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 28. Dec 2017, at 14:06, Matej Lieskovský > wrote: > > The benches are there, quite probably within 10m of their location in the > map. While this is abysmal accuracy, it is not entirely wrong. 10m absolute location accuracy for a spot within a much bigger area isn’t

[Tagging] Emergency pull-offs

2017-12-30 Thread Albert Pundt
How are emergency pull-offs generally mapped? I can't find anything on the wiki, so they're either have no agreed-upon tag, or it's done with some British/European term I don't know. —Albert ___ Tagging mailing list Tag

Re: [Tagging] Emergency pull-offs

2017-12-30 Thread Andrew Harvey
Could be http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Descape On 31 Dec. 2017 1:36 pm, "Albert Pundt" wrote: > How are emergency pull-offs generally > mapped? I can't find anything on the wiki, so they're either have no > agreed-upon tag, or it's done with s

Re: [Tagging] Emergency pull-offs

2017-12-30 Thread Albert Pundt
No, that's a truck escape ramp, which serves a totally different purpose (runaway truck vs. breakdowns and other reasons to stop), and would if anything be a more dangerous place to pull off than elsewhere on the shoulder, since runaway trucks coming down from a hill are expected to be able to just

Re: [Tagging] Emergency pull-offs

2017-12-30 Thread Andrew Harvey
I'm mapped these as highway=service, interested to hear if anyone has been using a different tag, possibly combined with service=? On 31 Dec. 2017 1:45 pm, "Albert Pundt" wrote: > No, that's a truck escape ramp, which serves a totally different purpose > (runaway truck vs. breakdowns and other r

Re: [Tagging] Emergency pull-offs

2017-12-30 Thread Volker Schmidt
highway=emergency_bay On 31 Dec 2017 3:53 a.m., "Andrew Harvey" wrote: I'm mapped these as highway=service, interested to hear if anyone has been using a different tag, possibly combined with service=? On 31 Dec. 2017 1:45 pm, "Albert Pundt" wrote: > No, that's a truck escape ramp, which serv