Dear HOT team Take the chance and discuss common tags, document them in the wiki, cleanup the wiki, and update the preset file [1].
-S. [1] https://twitter.com/sfkeller/status/607323469202747393 2015-05-20 15:47 GMT+02:00 Blake Girardot <[email protected]>: > Hi everyone, > > I just want to put a small slow down on this process. > > HOT is in the midst of discussing its over all tagging strategy and needs to > do so on the public lists shortly here. > > quickly as to the potential helicopter landing sites: > > aeroway=helipad > > Is _only_ for confirmed helipads. That tag means something and it is not for > guesses. If something is marked aeroway=helipad it is because there is a > Circle H there or someone on the ground has confirmed it is a helipad. > > Even something like emergency=landing_site is too concrete for the potential > landing sites we have been mapping. > > We have settled for now on: > > emergency:helipad=potential > damage:event=nepal_earthquake_2015 > > To emphasize these are just potential sites and literally nothing more. It > is not easy to properly identify actual, for sure, emergency landing sites > via aerial imagery. We have been getting feedback from on the ground that > some of the areas we identified are in fact acceptable and we can then > change potential to yes. > > So I have started the process of going over the wiki pages Stefan pointed > out and thinking about how the requests for our mapping have evolved since > then, which is really what drives all our mapping and tagging, requests from > our field partners. > > Speak with you all soon, > Cheers, > Blake > > > > > On 5/20/2015 2:14 PM, Andreas Goss wrote: >>> >>> there seems to be little information related to the emergency relief >>> effort. In over 366,000 records there are only 19 marked as aeroway = >>> helipad. >> >> >> I already brought this up on the tagging mailinglist. The problem is >> that someone had the great idea to tag those as leisure=common, which is >> honestly one of the worst defined and most abigious OSM Tags in geneal >> (in my opinion this is a UK only tag due to legal implications), just >> check out the Wiki. >> And what makes it really bad is that you can correctly tag places as >> leisure=common where no helicopter can land. >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dcommon >> >> Now aeroway=helipad probablay wasn't used, because it's really meant for >> places designed and designated for a helicopter to land not just where >> it could land. Even though the decription isn't that clear, I think it >> was the correct move not to use it. >> >> The question is why not have a new tag? >> And then it actually turned out that in Poland they are already using a >> Tag that could have been used by HOT: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency%3Dlanding_site >> >> __________ >> openstreetmap.org/user/AndiG88 >> wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:AndiG88 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
