[OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? & otherduplicate tags [tagging]

[Mike Harris]

Dave says:

"I wrote it to do some more complex duplicate removal for the cycle map (as a pre-processor before osm2pgsql). The key one being highway=path, bicycle=yes which as far as I can tell is a duplicate of highway=cycleway. It's not actually rolled out yet though I keep meaning to do the necessary tweaking of the tool-chain."

Imho, this may be an illustration of why a bot (or even a pre-processor) could be problematic. I would see the tag bicycle=yes as meaning that it is 'possible' to cycle along the path - but that doesn't necessarily make it a cycleway (highway=cycleway). It might be one - but was it designed primarily for cyclists? What rights for pedestrians? I'm not advocating highway=path other than as a last resort but if the character of this path is such that it can be cycled on then it presumably can be walked on. It's more a question of whether it was intended primarily as a footway, a cycleway or a multi-user way?

At least it confirms my intention to minimise my use of highway=path and to try to be more specific! (:>)

Mike Harris

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Stubbs [mailto:osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk] 
Sent: 24 February 2009 13:48
To: sly (sylvain letuffe)
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? & otherduplicate tags [tagging]

2009/2/24 sly (sylvain letuffe) <liste at letuffe.org>:
>
>> We could also create a preprocessor that "unifies" OSM data.
>
> I've been thinkink a lot about an osm pré-processor, but not to solve 
> the problem you mentionned.
>
> The main problem, to my point of vue, in the duplicates tag case, is 
> not at developper/renderer side, but at begginers learning to 
> contribute to OSM, and that is not solvable by a pre-processor ;-)
>
> I mentionned the fact that solving it for begginers will also solve it 
> for a cheap price at dev/renderer side.
>
>> This seems to me far superior than trying to meddle with the OSM 
>> database itself through bots & scripts.
>
> For data uses yes, but not for data feeding.
>
> The idea I was after with a pre-processor was to explicit those so 
> many default values than need to be hardcoded in every routing 
> software in order to guess that a motorway is unaccessible to pedestrians.
> But that's another story.
>

Have you played with the TagTransform plugin I wrote for Osmosis a while back?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/TagTransform
It only works against osmosis-0.29 unfortunately... I'll have to fix that.

I wrote it to do some more complex duplicate removal for the cycle map (as a preprocessor before osm2pgsql). The key one being highway=path,bicycle=yes which as far as I can tell is a duplicate of highway=cycleway. It's not actually rolled out yet though I keep meaning to do the necessary tweaking of the tool-chain.

Anyway, point is it's a fairly abstract framework for removing/adding/changing tags on OSM objects that may be of interest.

Dave