[Talk-GB] Some newbie questions

[John McKerrell]

On 2 Mar 2007, at 21:50, Keith Sharp wrote:

> Hello,
>
Hi, welcome,
> I've recently started uploading GPX tracks to OSM and processing them
> for inclusion in the map.  SO far things seem to be going well, but I
> have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) How do I mark up an area of land, for example a park?  Do I just  
> add
> nodes around the perimeter of the park (following my track), join  
> these
> with segments to enclose the area, and then set the landuse tag
> appropriately?
>
Basically yes, make sure that all of the segments point in the same  
direction (you can turn on arrow heads in josm if that's what you're  
using). Then convert all the segments to a way, you should have  
enough segments that the way is a complete polygon with no gaps, then  
set the appropriate landuse tag as you say.

> 2) How should I mark up a fire path?  A fire path is where a road is
> blocked to non-emergency service traffic, often using raised kerbs and
> no entry signs.
>

What is it used for generally, could it be a considered a  
pedestrianised road with access permissions for emergency vehicles?  
I'm not completely sure on this one but I'm sure others will have  
more ideas.
> I've started mapping the West End of Glasgow around where I live, is
> anyone working on this area at the moment?

Not I,but it'll be good to have some maps up there as I have  
relatives in the area :-) Obviously you should be able to get an idea  
from whether there's other tagged data in the area, another good way  
to tell is to sign up to the RSS feed as this will tell you when  
updates are made by people other than you. I can't find a wiki page  
describing it but this is the URL for my area, you should be able to  
change the lat/lon to get your area quite easily:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/feeds/nodes.rss? 
latitude=53.38281&longitude=-2.87474


John