Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread Richard Mann
I generally agree with this approach. When buses and bikes share a lane, I'd probably stick to cycleway=lane for the moment, or possibly cycleway=bus_lane. Richard On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:09 PM, esperanza espera...@no-log.org wrote: How to tag busways ? I added some cases in this wiki page

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/15 Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm: On 14/11/2010 20:57, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/11/14 Craig Wallacecraig...@fastmail.fm: BTW: There was exactly *no* good example, which real world problem could be solved with landcover that can't be done with: surface, natural and/or

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 2010-11-14 20:30, Ulf Lamping wrote: landuse=nature_reserve is your own personal concept. Please have a look at (and make yourself comfortable with) the existing map features before you discuss here. Arrogance doesn't bring any respect to your point of view. Yes it's leisure=nature_reserve

Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread Richard Mann
I know nothing about busways (other than that they're a ridiculous waste of money, but that's another story!) RIchard On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: The Cambridgeshire busway is tagged highway=bus_guideway (actuaklly it is currently tagged

Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread David Earl
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/thebusway/howitworks/ On 15/11/2010 17:16, Richard Mann wrote: I know nothing about busways (other than that they're a ridiculous waste of money, but that's another story!) RIchard On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com

Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:29 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.comwrote: http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/thebusway/howitworks/ I think Esperanza is more talking about bus lane than such dedicated way (look the attached picture at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:busway).

Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread edodd
The Cambridgeshire busway is tagged highway=bus_guideway (actuaklly it is currently tagged highway=construction, construction=bus_guideway because it is delayed). We had a long discussion about this at the time. This busway is somewhat different from what's been described below because it

Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread David Earl
On 15/11/2010 20:25, ed...@billiau.net wrote: I think that the psv is wrong as no taxi can use the O-Bahn - it is equipped with devices to destroy your motor vehicle if you attempt it Yes, likewise the Cambridgeshire one. They're signed as car trap, basically the same idea as the Dutch(?)

Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread Colin Smale
On 14/11/2010 22:39, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:09 PM, esperanzaespera...@no-log.org wrote: Is it right to use busway or should we use another tag ? (like psv ?) psv includes taxis; use access=no bus=yes unless taxis are allowed. The definition of psv will vary by

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 15.11.2010 11:39, schrieb Morten Kjeldgaard: On 2010-11-14 20:30, Ulf Lamping wrote: landuse=nature_reserve is your own personal concept. Please have a look at (and make yourself comfortable with) the existing map features before you discuss here. Arrogance doesn't bring any respect to

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread John Smith
On 15 November 2010 06:57, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I'm actually already doing this: landcover=tree. There is already 2545 entities of them in the db. You could still use a different surface there by the way, so it is not superfluous. Also landcover=scree, grass, ice,

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/15 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: as the concept of putting this into leisure, landuse, natural... is simply broken. +1 The whole nature_reserve as an area is broken. it is clearly an area. What else should it be? All boundaries delimit areas. cheers, Martin

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 November 2010 09:57, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: The whole nature_reserve as an area is broken. it is clearly an area. What else should it be? All boundaries delimit areas. I agree, but what does that have to do with surface tagging?

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: I've already been tagging beaches and other areas as surface=sand, how does using landcover make this any better? I agree that in this case it is the same. For trees it is different. surface=tree doesn't make any sense. Should we put some

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 November 2010 10:03, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: I've already been tagging beaches and other areas as surface=sand, how does using landcover make this any better? I agree that in this case it is the same. For trees

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: At the very least surface=* makes a lot more sense than landuse=grass etc... yes, but it doesn't make more sense then landcover=grass. surface=industrial doesn't make any sense either ;-) We could reserve surface to roads, squares and paths.

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 November 2010 10:33, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: problem. Anyway, there is a nice proposal for golf courses and surface doesn't seem to be in it: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Golf_course Past tagging discussion updated the surface=* tag to do

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 November 2010 10:33, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: At the very least surface=* makes a lot more sense than landuse=grass etc... yes, but it doesn't make more sense then landcover=grass. surface=industrial doesn't make

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 16 November 2010 10:33, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: At the very least surface=* makes a lot more sense than landuse=grass etc... yes, but it doesn't make more sense then

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/16 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: but it doesn't work in all cases and it is not in widespread usage AFAIK, so this might be changed IMHO. I looked this up in Taginfo: from 2,4 Million surface tags there are under 5000 combinations with leisure (many of which will be

Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread Stephen Hope
Yeah, he's obviously copied a page about bike lanes - there's still a couple of bike references in places. To me, a busway is a separate road just for buses (or maybe emergency vehicles as well), anything that is in a normal street is just a bus lane. Around here we have bus-ways (dedicated bus

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 November 2010 10:50, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/16 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: but it doesn't work in all cases and it is not in widespread usage AFAIK, so this might be changed IMHO. I looked this up in Taginfo: from 2,4 Million surface

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 November 2010 10:46, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 16 November 2010 10:33, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: At the very least surface=* makes a lot

Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/16 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com: Yeah, he's obviously copied a page about bike lanes  - there's still a couple of bike references in places.  To me, a busway is a separate road just for buses (or maybe emergency vehicles as well), anything that is in a normal street is just a bus

Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 November 2010 11:04, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: How do you define separate? Most of the bus lanes here are separated, but cars can cross the obstacles if they had to One bus way in Brisbane is above the rest of the road way... eg Northern Bus way...

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 16 November 2010 10:50, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/16 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com:  but it doesn't work in all cases and it is not in widespread usage AFAIK, so this might be changed IMHO. I

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 November 2010 11:09, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 16 November 2010 10:50, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/16 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: but it doesn't work in all cases

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
It wouldn't be much use for trying to work out how many golf bunkers are tagged natural=beach... sure, but neither you nor me would do this, true? I know that there is some painters here, that tag stuff to get the right color in renderer a or b, but as soon as there is a tag in the wiki that

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 16.11.2010 00:57, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2010/11/15 Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: as the concept of putting this into leisure, landuse, natural... is simply broken. +1 Oh, BTW, as a side-effect, putting this into landcover is *also* broken. The whole nature_reserve as

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 November 2010 11:18, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: sure, but neither you nor me would do this, true? I know that there is You missed the point, some people did do this, before extending the surface=* thread ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 16.11.2010 00:57, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2010/11/15 Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: The whole nature_reserve as an area is broken. it is clearly an area. What else should it be? All boundaries

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread Petr Morávek [Xificurk]
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer napsal(a): 2010/11/16 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: I've already been tagging beaches and other areas as surface=sand, how does using landcover make this any better? I agree that in this case it is the same. For trees it is different. surface=tree doesn't make

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 16.11.2010 02:57, schrieb Nathan Edgars II: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 16.11.2010 00:57, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2010/11/15 Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: The whole nature_reserve as an area is broken. it is clearly an

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 16.11.2010 03:49, schrieb Petr Morávek [Xificurk]: The problem with surface is that it is currently proposed (and used) to describe two different things: 1) A property of certain object, which can be area, way, node... 2) What is on the surface of certain _area_ of land (landcover). Although

Re: [Tagging] Busways

2010-11-15 Thread Stephen Hope
On 16 November 2010 11:04, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: How do you define separate? Most of the bus lanes here are separated, but cars can cross the obstacles if they had to Separate as in a totally different road, with it's own verges, bridges, tunnels etc. The buses use

Re: [Tagging] geology taggin?

2010-11-15 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:52:07 +1000 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I've already been tagging beaches and other areas as surface=sand, how does using landcover make this any better? Because, if you'd ever been to PommieLand (UK for the rest of youse) you would know that beaches