[OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass

[Peter Miller]

The 'dirty hack' was recommended on this list so I am only following orders
;)

I am not personally qualified to go tinkering with Mapnik and osmarender and
don't intend to practice now but....

I would be happy to put a small bounty forward for the work to be done. My
company would be happy to give £150 but would need a receipt. If I get more
than one offer I will either choose based on experience or take a name out
of a hat.

A spec would need to be produced and agreed by the community prior to
implementation. I guess the renderer should show as proposed anything with a
proposed= tag and a start-date= tag where the date is in the future. If the
start date is in the past then it should be shown as existing. The tagging
method would also need to be properly documents on the wiki.

What I do ask is that the feature is left in the dataset for the time being.
I intend to take a cut of it on Thursday (assuming it renders properly on
mapnik) and put it into the wikipedia article for the road.


Regards,



Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dstubbs at gmail.com [mailto:dstubbs at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dave
> Stubbs
> Sent: 31 March 2008 18:04
> To: Peter Miller
> Cc: Robert (Jamie) Munro; Talk Openstreetmap
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass
> 
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Peter Miller
> <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Thanks for that Robert. A few other questions:
> >
> >  1) How does one tag something that is being considered seriously (such
> as
> >  the Mottram Tintwistle bypass), but which may well never get built? I
> think
> >  I will just put the estimated build date given by the highways agency
> for
> >  now. (I will also continue to use the tunnel trick to get it to render
> in
> >  the mean time).
> 
> 
> By "tunnel trick" I presume that you mean tag it as a tunnel so that
> it turns up dotted, despite not being a tunnel, nor ever will be a
> tunnel?
> 
> That's not a trick, that's a dirty, dirty hack and should be stomped on
> hard.
> 
> If you want proposed roads to show up dotted then fix the renderer,
> don't engage in phantom tagging.