[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Club

2011-06-06 Thread Alessio Zanol
Hello,
this is my feature proposal:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Club

Please discuss here or even better in the discussion page on the 
wiki.

Thank you,
Alessio

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Re: [Tagging] building=dormitory for monasteries?

2011-06-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/6/5 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
 On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:10 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
 dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have at least 2 problems with this definition:

 1. It doesn't seem to be a British English term (at least not with
 this definition)
 2. It seems to exclude the use for monasteries
 (3. It was introduced without discussion or proposal)

 I'd agree with this - it's a fairly broad term but with a narrow
 definition. If it's really restricted to tertiary student
 accommodation, a name like student_accommodation might have been
 better.


thing is: shall we continue to go with this narrow definition, or
would it be better to widen the use case (already tagged objects will
not be affected, if the new definition fully comprises them).


 The dormitories you're trying to tag, are these open to the public?


Sometimes they might accomodate guests, but generally they are either
halls for the community to sleep in or will have a typology with a
corridor and small indivual cells for the monks/nuns to sleep.

cheers,
Martin

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[Tagging] [lifecycle][semantics] Updates for disused=* and abandoned=*

2011-06-06 Thread Andrew Chadwick (lists)
I've updated the pages for disused=yes and abandoned=yes to address
concerns lots of mappers were having about these tags' backwards
compatibility and basic semantic soundness. This update is itself
backwards-compatible with the old voted-upon docs, but allows migration
to a scheme that's friendlier for software.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:disused
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:abandoned

Your thoughts? Really, I'm just codifying something similar to what
people have already been doing locally, and as described on IRC and in
the wiki, as a suggestion. There are some nuggets about naming and when
a building stops being a building in there too.

Semantically, logically, it's pretty fundamental that all of the
individual statements you make by tagging an object should be true about
it right now to the best knowledge available. This means they should not
contradict each other. Otherwise, software is going to become upset:
volunteer developers don't have the time to add exception cases for
every new tag that comes along in a free-form tagging system. The old
pattern for these tags violated this; what I've suggested doesn't.



(http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Andrew%20Chadwick/diary/14047 too)

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Andrew Chadwick

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Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Club

2011-06-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/6/6 Alessio Zanol nar...@infinito.it:
 Hello,
 this is my feature proposal:
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Club

 Please discuss here or even better in the discussion page on the
 wiki.


I think that here is a better place to have discussions, that's why I
reply here.

I like this proposal, because it fills a gap for a type of
organization that does occur in many countries and does play an
important role in the spare time of many people. Maybe there is an
issue with the wording. Club seems to have a lot of meanings in
English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_(disambiguation)

with the (IMHO) most important one beeing nightclub (apparently not
what you are after).

What about using association, and have subtags for the
organisational form and targets (e.g. voluntary, paid membership,
whatever).

As a side note: in Germany there are now some smoker's clubs (which
before where pubs or restaurants or similar) as a result of a law that
prohibits smoking in public venues, maybe you could add those?

Another side note: you propose club=chess, but that might also be
club=sport, sport=chess (really ;-) )

A last side note: someone mentioned recently on the German ML that
sport=xy should not be used to describe any kinds of sports but only
places where you actually can exercise this sport. Personally I don't
agree that this is a good definition, but it is what the wiki
currently states as well:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sport

cheers,
Martin

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Re: [Tagging] building=dormitory for monasteries?

2011-06-06 Thread Brad Neuhauser
I think it'd make sense to broaden the definition:

Sleeping and living quarters provided by an institution for (large numbers
of) people associated with that institution.  For example, housing for
university students.

Not sure if the large numbers of helps or hurts, thus the parentheses.
This broader definition could also be used for other similar things, like
military barracks.

To take it a step further, something like residence_hall might be a better
term than dormitory, but since it's got hundreds of uses already, just
changing the definition might be enough!

Brad

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:18 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote:

 2011/6/5 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
  On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:10 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
  dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
  I have at least 2 problems with this definition:
 
  1. It doesn't seem to be a British English term (at least not with
  this definition)
  2. It seems to exclude the use for monasteries
  (3. It was introduced without discussion or proposal)
 
  I'd agree with this - it's a fairly broad term but with a narrow
  definition. If it's really restricted to tertiary student
  accommodation, a name like student_accommodation might have been
  better.


 thing is: shall we continue to go with this narrow definition, or
 would it be better to widen the use case (already tagged objects will
 not be affected, if the new definition fully comprises them).


  The dormitories you're trying to tag, are these open to the public?


 Sometimes they might accomodate guests, but generally they are either
 halls for the community to sleep in or will have a typology with a
 corridor and small indivual cells for the monks/nuns to sleep.

 cheers,
 Martin

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Re: [Tagging] building=dormitory for monasteries?

2011-06-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/6/6 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
 I think it'd make sense to broaden the definition:
 Sleeping and living quarters provided by an institution for (large numbers
 of) people associated with that institution.  For example, housing for
 university students.


in the case of a monastery it is not a quarter but a single building
or part of a building. Also large numbers is not correct for many
monasteries so I'd prefer to do without. Maybe for my case
building=dormitorium would be better suited then the ambiguous
dormitory.


 Not sure if the large numbers of helps or hurts, thus the parentheses.


yes, I'd do without.


 This broader definition could also be used for other similar things, like
 military barracks.


Why? This would introduce another imprecision, I'd either use a very
generic building=residential or simply building=barracks for
military barracks (they are indeed a proper architectural typology)


 To take it a step further, something like residence_hall might be a better
 term than dormitory, but since it's got hundreds of uses already, just
 changing the definition might be enough!


+1, for the student's living space residence_hall would have been a
better approach. Maybe we could still switch.

cheers,
Martin

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Re: [Tagging] building=dormitory for monasteries?

2011-06-06 Thread Brad Neuhauser
why not just stick with building=residential then?

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:55 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote:

 2011/6/6 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
  I think it'd make sense to broaden the definition:
  Sleeping and living quarters provided by an institution for (large
 numbers
  of) people associated with that institution.  For example, housing for
  university students.


 in the case of a monastery it is not a quarter but a single building
 or part of a building. Also large numbers is not correct for many
 monasteries so I'd prefer to do without. Maybe for my case
 building=dormitorium would be better suited then the ambiguous
 dormitory.


  Not sure if the large numbers of helps or hurts, thus the parentheses.


 yes, I'd do without.


  This broader definition could also be used for other similar things, like
  military barracks.


 Why? This would introduce another imprecision, I'd either use a very
 generic building=residential or simply building=barracks for
 military barracks (they are indeed a proper architectural typology)


  To take it a step further, something like residence_hall might be a
 better
  term than dormitory, but since it's got hundreds of uses already, just
  changing the definition might be enough!


 +1, for the student's living space residence_hall would have been a
 better approach. Maybe we could still switch.

 cheers,
 Martin

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Re: [Tagging] building=dormitory for monasteries?

2011-06-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/6/6 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
 why not just stick with building=residential then?


actually in the case of a monastery I would prefer dormitory because
it is a dedicated place for sleeping, not for living. There are other
buildings for other aspects of residential in a monastery from which
I would like to separate the dormitorium.

cheers,
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Re: [Tagging] building=dormitory for monasteries?

2011-06-06 Thread Brad Neuhauser
If you want to split that hair, sleeping_quarters would be a lot more
clear in English than dormitorium.  From your earlier comment on quarters,
it sounds like you might be confused by this term, but quarters can apply
to a single structure or part of a structure.  (for example, crew's quarters
on a ship)

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 2011/6/6 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
  why not just stick with building=residential then?


 actually in the case of a monastery I would prefer dormitory because
 it is a dedicated place for sleeping, not for living. There are other
 buildings for other aspects of residential in a monastery from which
 I would like to separate the dormitorium.

 cheers,
 Martin

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Re: [Tagging] building=dormitory for monasteries?

2011-06-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/6/6 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
 If you want to split that hair, sleeping_quarters would be a lot more
 clear in English than dormitorium.  From your earlier comment on quarters,
 it sounds like you might be confused by this term, but quarters can apply
 to a single structure or part of a structure.  (for example, crew's quarters
 on a ship)


OK, I was not sure about this (that's why I tried to explain how I got
it). Seems like dormitorium is not used in English (Oxford
dictionary has a reference to it in dormitory, there is also dorter
and dortour (ancient) for this part of a monastery, but I couldn't
find the latin word in any resource in English). Isn't sleeping
quarter then something that only refers to a part of a building, or
would you use it for a standalone structure as well?

Maybe I should go for dorter if I wanted to be specific?

cheers,
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Re: [Tagging] building=dormitory for monasteries?

2011-06-06 Thread John F. Eldredge


M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:

 2011/6/6 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
  If you want to split that hair, sleeping_quarters would be a lot
 more
  clear in English than dormitorium.  From your earlier comment on
 quarters,
  it sounds like you might be confused by this term, but quarters
 can apply
  to a single structure or part of a structure.  (for example, crew's
 quarters
  on a ship)
 
 
 OK, I was not sure about this (that's why I tried to explain how I got
 it). Seems like dormitorium is not used in English (Oxford
 dictionary has a reference to it in dormitory, there is also dorter
 and dortour (ancient) for this part of a monastery, but I couldn't
 find the latin word in any resource in English). Isn't sleeping
 quarter then something that only refers to a part of a building, or
 would you use it for a standalone structure as well?
 
 Maybe I should go for dorter if I wanted to be specific?
 
 cheers,
 Martin

There can be a separate building for sleeping quarters, or it can be part of a 
larger building.  Use of the term dormitory for university student's sleeping 
quarters is apparently an American, rather than UK, practice.  I don't know if 
there is an American-vs.-UK difference when applied to monasteries.  I lived in 
a college dormitory in the USA for a year in the mid-1970's; each room had two 
beds, a shared desk, and a sink.  There was a communal bathroom down the hall.  
The dining hall was in a different building, and all students living in 
dormitories were required to pay in advance for dining-hall meals at the start 
of each semester.

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think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria

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Re: [Tagging] building=dormitory for monasteries?

2011-06-06 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Brad Neuhauser
brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote:
 I think it'd make sense to broaden the definition:
 Sleeping and living quarters provided by an institution for (large numbers
 of) people associated with that institution.  For example, housing for
 university students.

Yeah, I think I like this best. Add typically before large numbers of.

We need tags to be somewhat broad and somewhat flexible - a single tag
that defines only a very, very specific kind of thing causes pain
later on when someone wants to map something that is similar, but not
identical. IMHO, having one tag that encompasses university halls of
residence, military barracks, monastic dormitories, and possibly other
places where accommodation of this type is provided, makes sense.

(Although I'm seeing some possible distinction between the tag
describing only the sleeping quarters, or the whole building).

Steve

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