Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-05 Thread Erik Johansson
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:48 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 5 May 2010 01:24, Stephen Gower socks-openstreetmap@earth.li wrote:
 Those calling for shop=fish rather than shop=fishmonger - what would you use 
 for
 the pet fish shop?

 How many pet shops would there be that only sell fish?

 I'm guessing a small minority at best, but this would be better as a
 sub tag of a pet shop...

There are two pet shops that sell nothing but fish related items near
me, and another two that sell fishing equipment. Even though I like
shop=fish.

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Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 May 2010 17:16, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote:
 There are two pet shops that sell nothing but fish related items near
 me, and another two that sell fishing equipment. Even though I like
 shop=fish.

I haven't seen any pet shops that only sell fish, but as for shops
selling equipment to catch fish, these are usually
shop=bait_and_tackle

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Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-05 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 05.05.2010 06:17, schrieb John F. Eldredge:
 Yes, that is the origin of the term.  However, usage of words shifts over 
 time, often into multiple meanings, depending upon context.  From what I have 
 heard, a coffeehouse in Amsterdam, Holland, now means a place that sells 
 marijuana, not one that sells coffee.

It's called a coffee shop[1] and those are available throughout the 
netherlands. You can buy soft drugs and soft drinks (maybe a coffee) for 
local consumption, but you'll often won't get any cakes or alike or any 
alcohol there.

But seeking for corner cases throughout the world is probably not the 
best way to find a good way to tag things. I guess even most dutch 
mappers won't tag a coffee shop as amenity=cafe, because the main 
purpose to get there is not to get a coffee.

Regards, ULFL

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_coffee_shop

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Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-05 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 05.05.2010 07:47, schrieb Roy Wallace:
 On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:22 PM, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com  wrote:
 On 4 May 2010 18:14, Roy Wallacewaldo000...@gmail.com  wrote:
 1) allow for the specification of more than one type simultaneously,
 e.g. amenity=A;B, amenity=B;C, etc., or
 2) change/specify in more detail the definitions of A, B and C so that
 they *are*  mutually exclusive, or
 3) be forced to tag things incorrectly

 Which option shall it be? I vote 2, which includes the option of just
 using amenity=D (where D=A OR B OR C)

 Do you have any concrete examples?

 So, I've been asked for a concrete example, presumably referring to
 how to define fast_food/restaurant/cafe *mutually exclusively*. I
 looked at the current wiki definitions for all three tags, and these
 are the best, new *mutually exclusive* definitions I could come up
 with, in the form of a flowchart:
 http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/1179/amenity.gif

 If you have suggestions to improve the flowchart, that's great - the
 main point is that, I believe, it is possible to precisely define the
 definitions of cafe/amenity/restaurant. And, I would suggest a unified
 flowchart in this case makes life easier than comparing three
 separate, vague wiki pages, or by doing mental experiments.

You are asking for black and white definitions/decisions where there's 
lot's of room for grey.

What about a place that serves limited breakfast in the morning, would 
classify as a cafe throughout the day, serves full meals only at noon 
and becomes a bar selling cocktails at night?

What you can do is try to find good descriptions so that most people 
understand what is meant and decide locally how to tag it best. 
Regardless how fine grained you are doing this, there will always be 
corner cases where two people will disagree with each other.

What you just can't do is find a precise definition that is valid 
throughout the world and will be doubtless in all possible situations.


BTW: The flowchart is using highly subjective language 
heavily-advertised pseudo-food which is *very* certainly not a good 
way to find a concensus. Why does it try to offence junk food fans? Oh, 
and the definition of pseudo food will very certainly differ between 
people from the western world and people in africa starving right now.

Regards, ULFL

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Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 May 2010 18:30, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote:
 BTW: The flowchart is using highly subjective language
 heavily-advertised pseudo-food which is *very* certainly not a good
 way to find a concensus. Why does it try to offence junk food fans? Oh,
 and the definition of pseudo food will very certainly differ between
 people from the western world and people in africa starving right now.

I don't know how prolific it is, but there have been cases proper
restaurants preparing meals or at least parts of meals ahead of time,
I agree that criteria should be dropped and instead focus on the
average time the customer expect before receiving their meal.

Apart from junk food fans, there is the case of consistency, even if
it isn't consistently great it might be the lesser of other evils, for
example if you are used to having breakfast cereals with low amounts
of sugar in your culture and you end up in one that doesn't eat
anything but pure sugar as if it's going out of fashion for breakfast
you might get an inkling of where I'm coming from.

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Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-05 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote:
 There are two pet shops that sell nothing but fish related items near
 me, and another two that sell fishing equipment. Even though I like
 shop=fish.

Personally, I don't really like the idea of a myriad distinct shop=*
tags - it means any software that deals with the data has to support
them all, or report merely some kind of shop.

Compare:
shop=fish
(software that doesn't know about fish shops only knows that it's a shop)

shop=pet
pet=fish;terrapins
(most software can render it as a pet store. fancy software can get
more specific)

Steve

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Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-05 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 05/05/2010 10:24, John Smith wrote:
 It's a cascade problem...
 
 what is it... a shop
 what sort of shop... fish shop...
 what does it sell...
 
 what is it... a shop
 what sort of shop... pet shop...
 what sorts of pets...
 
 Either way you look at it, shop is the base unit, followed by what it sells...

To be consistent, your example above should really be:

 what is it... a shop
 what sort of shop... food shop...
 what sort of food...


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Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 May 2010 20:27, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote:
 To be consistent, your example above should really be:

 what is it... a shop
 what sort of shop... food shop...
 what sort of food...

can't get much more generic than that...

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Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-05 Thread Liz
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
 To be consistent, your example above should really be:
  what is it... a shop
  what sort of shop... food shop...
 what sort of food... ready cooked food or food that still needs 
cooking/preparing



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Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 May 2010 22:10, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 5 May 2010 21:21, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
  what sort of food... ready cooked food or food that still needs
 cooking/preparing

 He's talking about this sort of thing:

 shop=food
 food:ocean_fish=yes
 food:shellfish=yes
 food:river_fish=no


shop=food
food=sea_food
food:ocean_fish=yes


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[Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Jonas Minnberg
I am currently working on cleaning up stuff in Stockholm, and I was
wondering if it was OK do to things like:

* Remove cycleways parallel to other ways and add a cycleway=track to that
way instead.
* Remove parks created from green areas on the satellite that are not really
parks (adding a tree_lined=yes tag to intersecting way if appropriate).
* Remove walkways that are just side walks.
* Align POIs so that shops, pubs etc recognized by a store front are a small
distance inside it's building.
* Align hole-in-the-wall ATMs to lie on the edge of the building.
* Aligning areas that lie directly next to each other in the real world
(park next to building with no road in between) so there is no space in
between (sharing points whenever possible).

Objections?

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Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-05 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/5/5 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com:
 On 5 May 2010 22:10, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 5 May 2010 21:21, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
  what sort of food... ready cooked food or food that still needs
 cooking/preparing

 He's talking about this sort of thing:

 shop=food
 food:ocean_fish=yes
 food:shellfish=yes
 food:river_fish=no


 shop=food
 food=sea_food
 food:ocean_fish=yes
 


Well, this actually makes more sense. Altough it will require lot of
retagging and selling idea to real mappers.

While discussing this, can we create proposal page for shop=seafood?

Cheers,
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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Jonas Minnberg
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:56 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote:

 On 5 May 2010 22:50, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote:
  * Remove cycleways parallel to other ways and add a cycleway=track to
 that
  way instead.

 Is there a good reason you want to reduce information?


Yes, as you may guess from my topic. Removing unnecessary stuff is a good
thing IMHO. I thought the idea behind cycleway=track and cycleway=lane was
to avoid having to draw lots of parallel ways. It avoids clutter on my
limited resolution GPS. It makes routing easier  faster. And it makes
things more consistent.



  * Remove parks created from green areas on the satellite that are not
 really
  parks (adding a tree_lined=yes tag to intersecting way if appropriate).

 Instead of removing them, wouldn't it be better to change the tags to
 make them as wooded areas?


landuse=wood on top of sidewalks inside cities? Doesn't feel like correct
usage of the tag to me...



  * Remove walkways that are just side walks.

 Why do you want to remove information if things are correctly tagged?


See above.



  * Align POIs so that shops, pubs etc recognized by a store front are a
 small
  distance inside it's building.

 Is the sat imagery of better quality than the original POI was sourced
 from? Or do you need to align the imagery with the POIs?


This is just for looks, to avoid POIs in buildings to overlap POIs on the
street. It also gives mapnik more space to render in.



  * Aligning areas that lie directly next to each other in the real world
  (park next to building with no road in between) so there is no space in
  between (sharing points whenever possible).

 You should use relations instead of having ways duplicate nodes,
 otherwise it's a pain in the butt for the next person editing to do
 anything useful with the ways without splitting them.


In this case I meant when you have two rectangular areas right next to each
other, no road. Sharing points means they will render better. But in this
case I am fine letting each area have it's own points even though they lie
almost on top of each other, whatever is most common.
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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com:


 On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:56 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 On 5 May 2010 22:50, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote:
  * Remove cycleways parallel to other ways and add a cycleway=track to
  that
  way instead.

 Is there a good reason you want to reduce information?

 Yes, as you may guess from my topic. Removing unnecessary stuff is a good
 thing IMHO. I thought the idea behind cycleway=track and cycleway=lane was
 to avoid having to draw lots of parallel ways. It avoids clutter on my
 limited resolution GPS. It makes routing easier  faster. And it makes
 things more consistent.


Well, one man's cruft is another man's gold, so objectively you don't
know what is useful and what's not, so it is simply better for
everyone to remove anything what is not correct. I suggest to filter
maps out when exporting them to your GPS instead of removing them from
OSM. Like it or not, micromapping is on the rise and I am quite sure
that we will see routers inteligent enough to make use of this
uncessary stuff.

Cheers,
Peter.

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Richard Welty
On 5/5/10 9:12 AM, Jonas Minnberg wrote:

 Yes, as you may guess from my topic. Removing unnecessary stuff is a 
 good thing IMHO. I thought the idea behind cycleway=track and 
 cycleway=lane was to avoid having to draw lots of parallel ways. It 
 avoids clutter on my limited resolution GPS. It makes routing easier  
 faster. And it makes things more consistent.

probably better to address GPS clutter in the process of rendering GPS 
format maps
in the long term.

richard


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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Jonas Minnberg
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote:

 2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com:
 
 
  On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:56 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  On 5 May 2010 22:50, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote:
   * Remove cycleways parallel to other ways and add a cycleway=track to
   that
   way instead.
 
  Is there a good reason you want to reduce information?
 
  Yes, as you may guess from my topic. Removing unnecessary stuff is a good
  thing IMHO. I thought the idea behind cycleway=track and cycleway=lane
 was
  to avoid having to draw lots of parallel ways. It avoids clutter on my
  limited resolution GPS. It makes routing easier  faster. And it makes
  things more consistent.
 

 Well, one man's cruft is another man's gold, so objectively you don't
 know what is useful and what's not, so it is simply better for
 everyone to remove anything what is not correct. I suggest to filter
 maps out when exporting them to your GPS instead of removing them from
 OSM. Like it or not, micromapping is on the rise and I am quite sure
 that we will see routers inteligent enough to make use of this
 uncessary stuff.


I am talking about either removing incorrect things (things that are not
parks, the just looked green when people mapped after satellite imagery
without visiting the place) or consolidating information (moving the
cycleway into the highway).

So OK, I can leave sidewalks (even though to be consistent you should then
draw sidewalks next to every street in the city that has them).

But what's the problem with aligning POIs to building edges so they don't
look like they been randomly thrown out, or removing things that are wrong?
A bad compromise would be to leave the park area and retag it as
fixme=looked_green_on_satellite or something, but that approach would just
leave lots of useless areas...

(Note also that I am talking about things in my neighborhood, I know what
they look like and where they are).

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com:
 I am currently working on cleaning up stuff in Stockholm, and I was
 wondering if it was OK do to things like:

 * Remove cycleways parallel to other ways and add a cycleway=track to that
 way instead.


no, you should rather do the opposite: remove the preliminary track on
the road and draw the cycleways where they are missing. A separate way
in reality should be a separate way in OSM. Otherwise you are not able
to deal with different surfaces, lane-numbers, situations at
crossings, maxspeeds, access-restrictions, widths, ...


 * Remove parks created from green areas on the satellite that are not really
 parks (adding a tree_lined=yes tag to intersecting way if appropriate).


I suggest to change leisure=park to landuse=grass if it is not a park.


 * Remove walkways that are just side walks.


see above


 * Align hole-in-the-wall ATMs to lie on the edge of the building.


+1, they should IMHO be part of the building way in this case


 * Aligning areas that lie directly next to each other in the real world
 (park next to building with no road in between) so there is no space in
 between (sharing points whenever possible).


+1, when they share node in reality

cheers,
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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
cleway into the highway).

 So OK, I can leave sidewalks (even though to be consistent you should then
 draw sidewalks next to every street in the city that has them).

Well, not exactly, I draw only when I survey them on the ground,
therefore I know how they are connected with each other. And for
consistency - OSM is far from it - but it would be nice to have proper
sidewalks everywhere, because it can and will be quite essential for
walking routing.

 But what's the problem with aligning POIs to building edges so they don't
 look like they been randomly thrown out, or removing things that are wrong?

I think no one said it's wrong. If you know that shop is somewhere
more inside, move it according to your information.

Cheers,
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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 May 2010 23:54, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote:
 So OK, I can leave sidewalks (even though to be consistent you should then
 draw sidewalks next to every street in the city that has them).

That's where things are headed, removing existing ones only delays the
inevitable...

 A bad compromise would be to leave the park area and retag it as
 fixme=looked_green_on_satellite or something, but that approach would just
 leave lots of useless areas...

If they aren't parks, then what are they?

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 May 2010 23:57, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
 I suggest to change leisure=park to landuse=grass if it is not a park.

This was covered in another thread, landcover isn't the same thing as
landuse, the only landuse=grass I can think of is turf farms,
surface=grass is more appropriate...

 +1, when they share node in reality

So make a relation, they share the segment, not just the nodes...

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
 A bad compromise would be to leave the park area and retag it as
 fixme=looked_green_on_satellite or something, but that approach would just
 leave lots of useless areas...

 If they aren't parks, then what are they?


Wouldn't it be smart to tag it as fixme for surveying on the ground,
and by then default on most possible variant?

P.

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Jonas Minnberg
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote:

 On 5 May 2010 23:54, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote:
  So OK, I can leave sidewalks (even though to be consistent you should
 then
  draw sidewalks next to every street in the city that has them).

 That's where things are headed, removing existing ones only delays the
 inevitable...

  A bad compromise would be to leave the park area and retag it as
  fixme=looked_green_on_satellite or something, but that approach would
 just
  leave lots of useless areas...

 If they aren't parks, then what are they?


They are trees or sometimes small areas of grass next to buildings. For
instance;

http://maps.google.se/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=svgeocode=q=medborgarplatsen,+stockholmsll=61.606396,21.225586sspn=41.151386,107.138672ie=UTF8hq=hnear=Medborgarplatsen,+Stockholmll=59.314198,18.076335spn=0.001299,0.00327t=hz=19layer=ccbll=59.314194,18.076695panoid=61og8jFQ7ZeAS1UebY-7ggcbp=12,275.23,,0,15.04


In this case there was a park on that sidewalk. Here I am considering adding
tree_lined=yes to the street. But overlapping with landuse=wood seems
insane.

(Sorry for using google streetview but it was the easiest way to show the
problem).

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Jonas Minnberg
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote:

  A bad compromise would be to leave the park area and retag it as
  fixme=looked_green_on_satellite or something, but that approach would
 just
  leave lots of useless areas...
 
  If they aren't parks, then what are they?
 

 Wouldn't it be smart to tag it as fixme for surveying on the ground,
 and by then default on most possible variant?

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Of course I have been surveying on the ground :) Same street as in the
streetview link but from my own camera:

http://swimmer.se/not_a_park.jpg

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/5 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com:
 On 5 May 2010 23:57, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
 I suggest to change leisure=park to landuse=grass if it is not a park.

 This was covered in another thread, landcover isn't the same thing as
 landuse, the only landuse=grass I can think of is turf farms,
 surface=grass is more appropriate...


while I understand you and generally would agree this is not
OSM-reality. landuse-OSM is not landuse as you would guess by the
actual meaning. As long as surface or landcover are not rendered this
won't change, despite all don't map for the renderers appeals.


 +1, when they share node in reality
 So make a relation, they share the segment, not just the nodes...

this is in many case overengineered. I'm not against the use of
relations but for many landuses and buildings with only 2 nodes in
common a relation complicates the situation without any benefit. Even
the db gets more load when using the relation I suppose. For a normal
block in the city you would need 20-40 relations just because all
buildings are in touch.

cheers,
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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com:
 If they aren't parks, then what are they?

 They are trees or sometimes small areas of grass next to buildings. For
 instance;


use landuse=grass, that's IMHO not wrong regarding landuse-use ;-) in general.

cheers,
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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Jonas Minnberg
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:18 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote:

 2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com:
  If they aren't parks, then what are they?
 
  They are trees or sometimes small areas of grass next to buildings. For
  instance;


 use landuse=grass, that's IMHO not wrong regarding landuse-use ;-) in
 general.


Shouldn't you expect - you know - *grass* in areas with landuse=grass ? :9

Seriously though, from the image of the actual street you can see that it is
a sidewalk. The only people who see the green surface are the ones flying
over it.

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 6 May 2010 00:12, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote:
 Of course I have been surveying on the ground :) Same street as in the
 streetview link but from my own camera:

 http://swimmer.se/not_a_park.jpg

surface=pavers ?

Although you are also welcome to map individual trees :D

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com:
 Shouldn't you expect - you know - *grass* in areas with landuse=grass ? :9

 Seriously though, from the image of the actual street you can see that it is
 a sidewalk. The only people who see the green surface are the ones flying
 over it.

I must admit I didn't look at your link at first (shame). I agree,
there is no park and no grass ;-)
What you could do is tag the trees as natural=tree on nodes (others
might advocate tree-lined tags on the road).

cheers,
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Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 6 May 2010 01:06, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
 yes, but what do you do if all those functions are primary? Sometimes
 this is the case.

Multiple POIs... or one node with multiple relations...

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Pieren
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote:

 On 5 May 2010 23:54, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote:
  So OK, I can leave sidewalks (even though to be consistent you should
 then
  draw sidewalks next to every street in the city that has them).

 That's where things are headed, removing existing ones only delays the
 inevitable...



What inevitable ?. I think that drawing sidewalks is silly and waste of
time. Let say that 99.99% of the unclassified and residential roads can be
walked on both sides, why should we draw the sidewalks everywhere ? It would
be more clever to tag where sidewalks are missing or not allowed, imo. Say
where things are missing, not where they are obviously authorized. Or you
add oneway=no to all roads as well ?

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Jonas Minnberg
OK, I think I'm beginning to understand the lay of the land.

What I most wanted to get acknowledged is that data gathered first hand on
street level should trump data traced from low-res satellite images.

I will not remove any walkways or cycleways that are adjacent to other ways.
I will align POI:s to walls or slightly inside for storefront shops,pubs
etc.
I will remove incorrect areas obviously defined from only looking at
satellite images, unless I can tag them to something that fits.
I will not join together joining areas since there doesn't seem to
be consensus on that.

In short, I can forget about consistency but hopefully be able to remove
things that are wrong - and I mean wrong when considered by a person
actually looking at the thing.

Concerning shops - I think that the POI should be placed just inside the
door, even if the shops main area is further inside. You remember
shops locations by their storefronts. (Not for shops inside malls of
course.)

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:46 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote:

 2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com:
  Shouldn't you expect - you know - *grass* in areas with landuse=grass ?
 :9
 
  Seriously though, from the image of the actual street you can see that it
 is
  a sidewalk. The only people who see the green surface are the ones flying
  over it.

 I must admit I didn't look at your link at first (shame). I agree,
 there is no park and no grass ;-)
 What you could do is tag the trees as natural=tree on nodes (others
 might advocate tree-lined tags on the road).

 cheers,
 Martin

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Tyler Gunn

On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:55:10 +0200, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
 What inevitable ?. I think that drawing sidewalks is silly and waste of
 time. Let say that 99.99% of the unclassified and residential roads can
be
 walked on both sides, why should we draw the sidewalks everywhere ? It
 would
 be more clever to tag where sidewalks are missing or not allowed, imo.
Say
 where things are missing, not where they are obviously authorized. Or
you
 add oneway=no to all roads as well ?

In my area, sidewalks are most certainly NOT the norm.  There are very few
of them, and where they are present they are typically separated from the
road by a boulevard.  Other areas of my city have sidewalks that are right
up against the roads.  

I can see the merit of representing sidewalks that are right up against
the road by using an attribute on the road.  However for sidewalks
separated from the road by a boulevard I'd think it makes more sense to
draw them in as separate paths.

Just my 2c.
Tyler

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Richard Mann
If the sidewalks are next to the road, and in Europe, you can probably
rely on people assuming them by default (unless you advise otherwise).
Clearly in other places, it may be necessary to tag them explicitly.

Richard


On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com wrote:

 On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:55:10 +0200, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
 What inevitable ?. I think that drawing sidewalks is silly and waste of
 time. Let say that 99.99% of the unclassified and residential roads can
 be
 walked on both sides, why should we draw the sidewalks everywhere ? It
 would
 be more clever to tag where sidewalks are missing or not allowed, imo.
 Say
 where things are missing, not where they are obviously authorized. Or
 you
 add oneway=no to all roads as well ?

 In my area, sidewalks are most certainly NOT the norm.  There are very few
 of them, and where they are present they are typically separated from the
 road by a boulevard.  Other areas of my city have sidewalks that are right
 up against the roads.

 I can see the merit of representing sidewalks that are right up against
 the road by using an attribute on the road.  However for sidewalks
 separated from the road by a boulevard I'd think it makes more sense to
 draw them in as separate paths.

 Just my 2c.
 Tyler

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com:
 I will not join together joining areas since there doesn't seem to
 be consensus on that.


I think there is consensus that the nodes should be connected (and
I'll even go so far to say it is wrong if they are not connected). The
open question is whether this should involve multipolygon-relations to
share _ways_ as well. IMHO just in cases where it is worth it (because
the problem is you augment complexity quite a bit).

cheers,
Martin

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Jonas Minnberg
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:49 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote:

 2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com:
  I will not join together joining areas since there doesn't seem to
  be consensus on that.


 I think there is consensus that the nodes should be connected (and
 I'll even go so far to say it is wrong if they are not connected). The
 open question is whether this should involve multipolygon-relations to
 share _ways_ as well. IMHO just in cases where it is worth it (because
 the problem is you augment complexity quite a bit).


Well since we need space for all those thousands of sidewalks that people
want to add maybe we better leave space around all roads anyway :)

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com:
 Well since we need space for all those thousands of sidewalks that people
 want to add maybe we better leave space around all roads anyway :)


IMHO the sidewalk (and the street) are not part of the adjacent
landuses anyway. I thought you were asking for landuses one to another
without a road in between. Please don't connect landuses to roads, it
causes trouble later and is less precise anyway. Use the border of the
adjacent land instead.

cheers,
Martin

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[Tagging] Feature proposal - RFC - shop:seafood (was: A shop selling fish and seafood)

2010-05-05 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Please feel free to view and comment on this proposal for shop:seafood

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/seafood_shop

Claudius

Am 05.05.2010 15:09, Peteris Krisjanis:
 While discussing this, can we create proposal page for shop=seafood?


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[Tagging] Use of column and period in tagging namespace design

2010-05-05 Thread ivom
Hi,

Just wondering when the use of : of . is most appropriate with regard to 
namespace tags in mind. Some examples like this tree:height=20m or 
shop.restaurant.parking=yes is what I mean.

Is the : de-facto the namespace divider of choice or does the . come into 
view for some reasons sometimes?

Bye,
Ivom


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Re: [Tagging] Use of column and period in tagging namespace design

2010-05-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/5 ivom ivo.vdmaagdenb...@pandora.be:
 Just wondering when the use of : of . is most appropriate with regard to
 namespace tags in mind. Some examples like this tree:height=20m or
 shop.restaurant.parking=yes is what I mean.

 Is the : de-facto the namespace divider of choice or does the . come into
 view for some reasons sometimes?


in the context of OSM I think the : is de-facto the namespave divider
(although we don't have officially namespaces).

cheers,
Martin

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-05-05 08:55, Pieren wrote:
...Let say that 99.99% of the unclassified and residential roads can be 
walked on both sides, why should we draw the sidewalks everywhere ? It 
would be more clever to tag where sidewalks are missing or not allowed, 
imo. Say where things are missing, not where they are obviously 
authorized. Or you add oneway=no to all roads as well ?

+1. Micromapping may be on the rise, but that doesn't mean it's 
necessarily a good thing. I'd still like to see a means of specifying, on 
administrative boundaries, tags that are to be assumed (inherited) by 
contained objects (e.g. sidewalk=yes, surface=paved, lanes=2, maxspeed=25 
mph, etc.). I currently don't tag these, but it would be useful to visitors 
to know them.

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Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-05 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 05.05.2010 22:36, schrieb Roy Wallace:

 There's only room for grey (w.r.t. the OSM definitions) if we want
 there to be.

Following the OSM discussions for years now I would say: That's an illusion.

 I think I do understand your point, though, that you think it better
 to keep using these tags in a fuzzy, subjective, variable way
 throughout the world.

Trying to redefine a vague definition existing for years with 
something more exact a lot later on is just asking for trouble.

Regards, ULFL

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Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-05 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Am 05.05.2010 22:36, schrieb Roy Wallace:

 There's only room for grey (w.r.t. the OSM definitions) if we want
 there to be.

 Following the OSM discussions for years now I would say: That's an illusion.

Ok. Though I don't understand, I'll take your word for it and shut up :)

 I think I do understand your point, though, that you think it better
 to keep using these tags in a fuzzy, subjective, variable way
 throughout the world.

 Trying to redefine a vague definition existing for years with
 something more exact a lot later on is just asking for trouble.

Ok, I'll give up. But I will just point out that, while you insist it
is just asking for trouble, imagine a wiki page that says something
like:

If you're not sure whether the place should be tagged as an
amenity=restaurant, cafe or fast_food, this flowchart is provided as a
guide. However, keep in mind that these tags have been used vaguely
and subjectively for years, and may continue to be used as such into
the future.

That seems an improvement to me, but it appears I am alone. Bye.

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Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 6 May 2010 06:12, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
 I would think a semi-colon delimited value would be better in this
 case - certainly better than multiple POIs, and no less supported
 than multiple relations (right?)

If an app supports relations, it wouldn't matter if there is 1 or 10,
however most software I've tried doesn't bother to expand multiple
values separated by semicolons...

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Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-05 Thread Greg Troxel

Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com writes:

 Ok, I'll give up. But I will just point out that, while you insist it
 is just asking for trouble, imagine a wiki page that says something
 like:

 If you're not sure whether the place should be tagged as an
 amenity=restaurant, cafe or fast_food, this flowchart is provided as a
 guide. However, keep in mind that these tags have been used vaguely
 and subjectively for years, and may continue to be used as such into
 the future.

 That seems an improvement to me, but it appears I am alone. Bye.

You're not alone.  Your flowchart was helpful to clarify how at least
some people think.


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Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-05 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:41 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 6 May 2010 06:12, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
 I would think a semi-colon delimited value would be better in this
 case - certainly better than multiple POIs, and no less supported
 than multiple relations (right?)

 If an app supports relations, it wouldn't matter if there is 1 or 10,
 however most software I've tried doesn't bother to expand multiple
 values separated by semicolons...

You're right, actually. But it seems like a pretty nasty hack to use
relations for this purpose, that is, simultaneously defining more than
1 value for a key. From the wiki: relations are basically groups of
objects in which each object may take on a specific role.

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Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Tyler Gunn

 +1. Micromapping may be on the rise, but that doesn't mean it's 
 necessarily a good thing. I'd still like to see a means of specifying,
on 
 administrative boundaries, tags that are to be assumed (inherited) by 
 contained objects (e.g. sidewalk=yes, surface=paved, lanes=2,
maxspeed=25 
 mph, etc.). I currently don't tag these, but it would be useful to
 visitors 
 to know them.

I agree that it'd be nice to be able to set defaults for an area such as
typical speed limits.  

I guess it depends what you consider micromapping...

Here's an area in Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=Winnipeg,+MBsll=37.0625,-95.677068sspn=45.957536,64.951172ie=UTF8hq=hnear=Winnipeg,+Division+No.+11,+Manitoba,+Canadall=49.823878,-97.201324spn=0.009192,0.024033z=16

Here's the same area in OSM; I've added a lot of detail to this shopping
district including parking lots, buildings, and started to put in POIs.  I
think this is a HUGE improvement over what Google Maps shows:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.82372lon=-97.20104zoom=16layers=B000FTF

Tyler

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Re: [Tagging] tagging for discount stores in US

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 6 May 2010 11:24, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
 they really don't quite seem to go as department_store, but also seem large
 for the value general. what are people typically using?

shop=department_store seems to fit to me:

A single large store - often multiple storeys high - selling a large
variety of goods

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Re: [Tagging] tagging for discount stores in US

2010-05-05 Thread Katie Filbert
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:

 by discount store, i mean the largish stores like WalMart, Target, K
 Mart, etc.

 they really don't quite seem to go as department_store, but also seem large
 for the value general. what are people typically using?


I would tag them as department_store.  These are of the discount variety
(discount department store), but still fit the tag.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Corporation#Target_Stores

Though, many Targets and Super Walmarts have large grocery sections, so they
could also get shop=supermarket, and there might be a McDonalds, Pizza Hut
or Taco Bell Express, and other things.  Thus, we have the issue with how to
assign multiple values (as separate pois, with relations, or separated with
semicolons in a single poi, or other means of tagging)

-Katie


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Re: [Tagging] tagging for discount stores in US

2010-05-05 Thread John Smith
On 6 May 2010 11:59, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 Though, many Targets and Super Walmarts have large grocery sections, so they
 could also get shop=supermarket, and there might be a McDonalds, Pizza Hut
 or Taco Bell Express, and other things.  Thus, we have the issue with how to
 assign multiple values (as separate pois, with relations, or separated with
 semicolons in a single poi, or other means of tagging)

The different shops should get their own POI, the only difference is
they're indoors so you would need a laser range finder or guess the
position...

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