[talk-au] Electric grid - how to tag
I'm tagging an 'electric grid' on the way into Finke Gorge National Park (Northern Territory). It has the same function as a normal grid, but rather than being made of metal bars, it has several electrified wires (same wires as used in electric fences), placed across the track, raised a couple of centimetres above the track by insulating material on both sides of the track. I was thinking: barrier=cattle_grid electric=yes Any suggestions for alternate tags? There is a tag electrified=yes, but on the wiki this is used to mark electrified railways. Mark P. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Electric grid - how to tag
Mark, 99% of the times electrification=yes is used, it has railway= there as well. Can we assume any rendering would look for the railway= tag first ? I mean to say that no one 'should' assume electrification= applies only to railways ? So, barrier=cattle_grid electrification=yes would seem good to me. By the way, never seen a grid like you describe, it goes across the road ? And you drive over it ? david On 29/06/13 10:20, Mark Pulley wrote: I'm tagging an 'electric grid' on the way into Finke Gorge National Park (Northern Territory). It has the same function as a normal grid, but rather than being made of metal bars, it has several electrified wires (same wires as used in electric fences), placed across the track, raised a couple of centimetres above the track by insulating material on both sides of the track. I was thinking: barrier=cattle_grid electric=yes Any suggestions for alternate tags? There is a tag electrified=yes, but on the wiki this is used to mark electrified railways. Mark P. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Electric grid - how to tag
On 29/06/2013, at 10:35 AM, David Bannon wrote: Mark, 99% of the times electrification=yes is used, it has railway= there as well. Can we assume any rendering would look for the railway= tag first ? I mean to say that no one 'should' assume electrification= applies only to railways ? So, barrier=cattle_grid electrification=yes would seem good to me. Sounds OK to me. By the way, never seen a grid like you describe, it goes across the road ? And you drive over it ? Yes to both questions. It's at the entrance to the national park, but as the track is in an intermittent river bed a normal grid or a gate won't work. Mark P. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] surface=unsealed in 4wd/dirt road tagging
Hi, I know we had some discussion over 4wd/dirt road tagging. This ended up in the wiki as a recommendation to use surface=unsealed http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=unsealed I really can't see a significant reason here not to stick with surface=unpaved http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=unpaved When it is so much more likely to used, and therefore so much more likely to be rendered, navigated, etc. There are the other surface=* tags that can be used if more specific information is available, but surface=unsealed is obscure to no benefit IMO. If there are no objections, I'll update the wiki. Thanks, Ian. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
