[Talk-il] Mapping conventions

[Yuri Magrisso]

Hi Eli,

>
> I was adviced to raise the questions in this mailing list, which I didn't
> know exists until yesterday.
> I went over the archives and read the thread "convention for tagging
> roads" that Yuri started. Was there any final decision regarding it? I saw
> that all agree with it, yet didn't see final decision.
>

There was no final decision about it. Initially I was hoping to get some
more opinions and experiences, especially regarding the city conventions. I
also wanted to check what do they do in other parts of the world. One thing
that I noticed was that JOSM warns when a primary or secondary road does not
have a road reference, which made me think that those tags are reserved for
inter-city roads. I personally like to use them for city roads because they
make the map look prettier and more informative, so may be it is worth to
ignore that warning. Later on I just got quite busy at work and haven't been
able to invest a lot of time in OSM. Now that you are mentioning it, we
should probably just revive the discussion and finalize it.


> Also I have few more questions regarding mapping conventions and will
> appreciate your opinion on them.
>
> 1. Does a street name should be prefixed with word like "רחוב" or "שדרות"?
> I personally prefer that the name will not include this information,
> if this kind of information is important maybe a new tag should be added for
> it.
>

It will be interesting to see if there is some kind of reasoning behind
labeling a street as a Boulevard, Avenue, Road or simply Street. I am also
thinking that the right thing is to have a tag for those and have the
renderer show them in different colors. I haven't seen that question raised
on the main OSM forums, so for now I am just adding that to the name. If
there will be separate tags for those labels then we can just write
something that extracts them from the name and adds them as a tag.


>
> 2. Should we use full names for the streets or the most commonly used /
> known?
> One example is: ז'בוטינסקי or זאב ז'בוטינסקי, where both names are known.
> Second example is (street in Rishon): "גיסין" which is the known name or
> "דוד ואריה לייב גיסין", which is the full name but I don't think that
> anybody is familiar with this name?
>

What I do is I write the short version to the name tag and the long version
to the name:he tag. In the name:en tag I write the short version in English.


>
> 3. When a street is bi-directional and the direction lanes are saparated
> by traffic island ("אי תנועה"), does the map should have two separate route,
> one for each direction?
> For streets saparated by traffic island, I currently create two routes one
> for each direction.
>

I think this is the recommended way to do it.


Regards,
Yuri
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