Re: [Tagging] Highway=*_link roads at Y-junctions and roundabouts?

2018-12-18 Thread Michael Booth
Agreed, a short Y section before a roundabout because there is a small bit of painted or physical separation doesn't mean they are _link roads - it's still the same through road. The wiki says "The _link tags are used to identify ... 'channelised' (physically separated) at-grade turning lanes

Re: [Tagging] Trailhead tagging

2018-12-21 Thread Michael Booth
I only know of the term trailhead as I've seen it used in the infobox on Wikipedia, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Highland_Way That route has trailheads at Milngavie (bonus points for pronouncing it correctly): https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5819237 and Fort William: https://www.g

Re: [Tagging] iD adding highway=footway to all railway/public_transport=platform ways and relations

2019-05-22 Thread Michael Booth
That explains why I saw highway=footway being added to a platform in a changeset today... If adding highway=footway is such a good idea then let's have a discussion and get it added to every platform, rather than this fake "upgrade" tag feature in iD. Maybe routers should treat platforms as

Re: [Tagging] iD adding highway=footway to all railway/public_transport=platform ways and relations

2019-05-22 Thread Michael Booth
That explains why I saw highway=footway being added to a platform in a changeset today... If adding highway=footway is such a good idea then let's have a discussion and get it added to every platform, rather than this fake "upgrade" tag feature in iD. Maybe routers should treat platforms as

[Tagging] mast / tower / communication_tower (again)

2018-09-28 Thread Michael Booth
Hi, I opened an issue on the rendering of man_made=communications_tower on the standard layer over on OSM-carto: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3414 and think there should be a discussion about the tagging as well. The Wiki definition is: *"**a huge tower for tran

Re: [Tagging] issues with the list of deprecated features

2018-10-17 Thread Michael Booth
Sorry, but bed_and_breakfast is not tagged in the "hundreds and thousands" - it is in fact used less than 700 times worldwide (about 300 in the UK, including 10% of the total in one town alone!). And if you look at the tag history graph you'll see it has never been above 750 at any point. Thi