[OSM-talk-be] Tagging of a large slab of concrete with many bus routes going over it

[Jo]

2010/10/7 Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>

> Jo wrote:
> > What follows are the reactions of 2 people on talk-be, regarding my
> > question. I know Ivodeb is not happy with how I tried to solve the
> marriage
> > between proper rendering of normal maps and maps of bus routes. We'd need
> a
> > separate tag for indicating that these 'roads' are not actually there,
> but
> > they are more like 'virtual pathways' of where the vehicles are likely to
> > travel across such a wide road, devoid of lanes.
>
> Whenever I encounter a "virtual path" for for example a cycle route or a
> walking route crossing a big pedestrian square, I draw an extra way, with
> just
> the tag "route=bicycle" or "route=foot" (no highway tags) which shows how
> you'd walk or drive over it, and I add that way to the relation.
>
>
> > Please let me know what you think. Ivodeb would also like to see two
> oneway
> > streets between the platforms, but there too, there is only a wide slab
> of
> > concrete. I could add them to the multipolygon, ofc, but that's
> completely
> > breaking with how OSM used to map. Maybe it's the way to go, though.
>
> Not sure if I understand this situation correctly, but if there is no
> division
> between the two directions, then it should be one way.
>
> Greetings
> Ben
>

Please have a look at that last sentence again. I don't think it says what
you wanted it to say. Removing the highway tags may well be the solution I
was looking for.
Could you have a look at the actual link? It became a real 'work of art' :-)

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.882181&lon=4.714964&zoom=18&layers=M

Thanks,

Jo
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