[OSM-talk-be] Adding path - correctly done? - stream vs lake

[Daan Bellefroid]

Thanks, I'll do the changes as you suggested.

Any idea why my newly created path looks different on the map then the one
I connected it too (the one parallel to Vrouwvliet)? Because IRL, they look
the same!


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Daan,
>
> first of all, Welcome & thanks for your first contribution.
>
> I've taken a quick look at it. It's OK in that sense that you will find
> many bicycle paths that are mapped in this way, i.e. highway=path,
> foot=yes, bicycle=yes. If there is a traffic sign that explicitly allows
> bicycles, it might be better to use highway=cycleway.
>
> As for the name. I would never use Fietspad Dijle-Nekkerspoel, unless
> there is a sign along the path with that name. You can compare it with the
> E19, which might be called "the highway from Antwerp to Brussels; but you
> will never see that on a map.
>
> You can also add "lit=yes/no", which I find interesting on cycleways,
> since not all of them are lit.
>
> I'm not going to comment on the Vrouwvliet issue, as I'm not so familiar
> with all the waterway tags and the conventions. Hopefully somebody else
> will answer that one.
>
> happy mapping
>
> regards
>
> m
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Daan Bellefroid <daan at idaan.be> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a new mapper and added yesterday a new path based on GPS data I
>> collected driving the path with my bike.
>>
>> I just would like that someone takes a look if I did it right?
>> It is the path in Mechelen-Noord, parallel to the R6, going from the
>> Dijle to the Vrouwvliet (Slachthuislaan).
>> I called the path "Fietspad Dijle-Nekkerspoel" because there are arrows
>> stating "Nekkerspoel" to the one direction and "Dijle" to the other.
>>
>> Did I put it there correctly? Are the tags correct?
>>
>> I made a link to an existing path following Vrouwvliet. Why is that in
>> another coding than mine? Is it because the tags are different?
>>
>> Another question I have: the stream there is marked as different areas
>> stating "lake" with no name.
>>
>> Can I change these into "stream" and naming them Vrouwvliet?
>>
>> I'm asking these questions because I want to construct and not destroy
>> the map...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daan.
>>
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