Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Key:designation)

2011-03-02 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 1 March 2011 21:47, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: You'all are welcome to: 1) Make another proposal 2) Vote yes or no to the proposal as it stands It's not appropriate to fine-tune the proposal during the voting stage - you either approve or oppose it as it stands.

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Key:designation)

2011-03-02 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/2 Markus Lindholm markus.lindh...@gmail.com: My proposal is simply to use an other key, and once a better name for the key is agreed upon to change the existing tags to use the new key it might also help to use namespaces for the values, like uk:public_bridleway instead of

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Key:designation)

2011-03-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: it might also help to use namespaces for the values, like uk:public_bridleway instead of public_bridleway So I presume you're planning to do that for other tags whose meaning varies by country, like highway=uk:trunk, highway=de:motorway... OSM. For People Who Don't

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Key:designation)

2011-03-02 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/2 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: it might also help to use namespaces for the values, like uk:public_bridleway instead of public_bridleway So I presume you're planning to do that for other tags whose meaning varies by country, like

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Key:designation)

2011-03-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tordanik wrote: I'm still not quite sure whether I understand what designation=* is supposed to do. It's to record the legal status, or designation, of a given object - whether that object be a footpath, a waterway, or whatever. Having now looked at the wiki voting page I'm afraid the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Key:designation)

2011-03-02 Thread Richard Mann
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Tordanik wrote: I'm still not quite sure whether I understand what designation=* is supposed to do. It's to record the legal status, or designation, of a given object - whether that object be a footpath, a

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Key:designation)

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Mauer
On 03/02/2011 05:01 PM, Richard Mann wrote: I reckon the voting is running at about 24000 a handful for, and a handful against. Oh, come on. If you’re going to count every element tagged with designation=* as a “vote for” you really ought to count every element *not* tagged with