[OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass

[Steve Chilton]

If you will excuse the pun - yes, that is what I am proposing.
 
STEVE

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Peter Miller on behalf of Peter Miller 
	Sent: Mon 3/31/2008 9:48 PM 
	To: Steve Chilton; 'Dave Stubbs' 
	Cc: 'Talk Openstreetmap' 
	Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass
	
	


	Excellent. Thanks Steve.
	
	So how should a proposed road be tagged? Should it be highway=proposed
	Proposed=trunk Name=foo bypass?
	
	
	Peter
	
	> -----Original Message-----
	> From: Steve Chilton [mailto:S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk]
	> Sent: 31 March 2008 20:53
	> To: Dave Stubbs; Peter Miller
	> Cc: Talk Openstreetmap
	> Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass
	>
	> In an attempt to avoid this kind of "false tagging for rendering" I have a
	> submitted an addition to the mapnik style tonight.
	> It will render highway=construction or highway=proposed from z12 upwards.
	> It will also render a text label (based on name=) for z13 upwards.
	> Jamie's more sophisticated suggestions make sense but are not easily to
	> render at the moment. Perhaps we can work towards that time-based approach
	> later.
	> For now it would make a lot of sense for people to revisit roads under
	> construction they have tagged and follow this suggested scheme:
	> highway=construction
	> construction=foo (motorway, trunk, primary or whatever - if known)
	> name=Foo bypass, due to open Dec 08 (or whatever)
	>
	> PS: I haven't looked at the file but hope this doesn't throw osmarender
	> rules out, which I know picks something up to render construction
	>
	> Cheers
	> STEVE
	>
	>       -----Original Message-----
	>       From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org on behalf of Dave Stubbs
	>       Sent: Mon 3/31/2008 6:03 PM
	>       To: Peter Miller
	>       Cc: 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.
	>
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