<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 26 Feb 2009, at 10:45, Frankie Roberto wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Peter Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.miller@itoworld.com" target="_blank">peter.miller@itoworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> <br>I'm also going to have to use the relation method for a few trams near me, as the roads are set up so that one side of the road is tram-only (railway=tram, oneway=yes), but the other side is also open to road traffic (highway=unclassified, tram=yes, oneway=yes), sometimes buses and taxis only (highway=unclassified, tram=yes, oneway=yes, bus=yes, taxi=yes, motorcar=no). This looks a complete mess in renderers at the moment (see <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.478996&lon=-2.241334&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.478996&lon=-2.241334&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF</a>).<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Trams can't go on highway=unclassified as far as I'm aware, unless there is a separate highway=tram tag or way.</div><div>In central London there are many roads that are all traffic one way and bicycle+bus+maybe taxi in the other direction, I'm thinking of splitting them into separate ways.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div>Knowing what I do about train enthusiasts and public transport enthusiasts I think we are going to end up with every set of tracks and points in the entire world in OSM! We might start with a single way through a station and ignore the fact that there are three platforms and six or more actual sets of tracks, but the coding will get more and more detailed as more fanatical people get hold of it!</div> </div></blockquote></div><div><br>Indeed - I've started to do a few stations near me. One of the unsolved problems (to my mind), is how to add platforms numbers. ref=* has been suggested, but most island platforms usually have a different number for each side of the platform (sometimes even splitting the sides up as 1a, 1b, etc). See discussion here: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/unified_stoparea#Sheffield" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/unified_stoparea#Sheffield</a><br> </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For island platforms I use a way for each platform with a ref, and then a footway at each end to link them, maybe not the best, but kinda works. </div><div><br></div><div>Shaun</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>