[Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 10:36:18 BST 2009


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Christoph Boehme <christoph at b3e.net> wrote:
>
>
> Robert Naylor wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:27:16 +0100, Brian Prangle
>> <bprangle at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement as to
>>> whether a bus stop is completley surveyed or not. For two reasons:
>>> indication of a shelter is a representation of what's present on the
>>> ground
>>> and it's a pretty siginificant presence ( after all we tag and map
>>> smaller
>>> things like post boxes and park benches!); and it's also useful for bus
>>> passengers to know whether they're going to get wet or not when waiting
>>> for
>>> a bus ( for when we can eventually actually render this on maps)
>>
>>
>> How about adding an option to set wheelchair=yes to mark the new higher
>> kerbs that are suddenly appearing everywhere (at least round here anyway)
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pobice/3925707792/
>
> I would prefer to call it something like barrierfree=yes as it is not
> only helpful for wheelchair users.

I don't see a barrier elsewhere. Let's mark what's physically there
instead of the implications of the impact of not having whatever is
being mapped. So if there's a raised kerb at the bus stop, mark that
there is a raised kerb. kerb=raised?

Cheers,
Andy




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