Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (boundary=military)

2009-10-13 Thread John Smith
2009/10/13 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2009/10/13 Gilles Corlobé gil...@corlobe.tk: Hello everybody, I propose to add a tag boundary=military : the problem is that, with the existing tags, it's almost impossible to mark correctly lots of data, like (non limitative list)

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Visual map for the blind

2009-10-13 Thread John Smith
2009/10/13 lulu-...@gmx.de: I would love to agree, but the needs of disabled persons are widely spread over our tagging scheme anyway, and awareness of objects that refer to accessibility is nearly zero. There are categories for visual, hearing and walking impariment, colletcted in the

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (boundary=military)

2009-10-13 Thread Anthony
2009/10/13 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: IMHO landuse=military is already what you want to express with boundary=military. Then all the landuse=military tags can be changed, and landuse=military can be deprecated. On the other hand, ownership=military and/or access=military makes

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-13 Thread Mike N.
TIGER obfuscates the data by declaring the entire numbering range of a zone: for example a 400 block / Even containing houses 404 through 420 would be declared as range Even / 400-498 in TIGER. For navigation purposes, that gets you to within one block of an address. Maybe they do it for

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
actually I think that instead of discussing interpolation with regularlyskipped numbers you could map explicitly the nodes of the real numbers, thus getting a high-precision map instead of this interpolation-crab, that is much less useful then an actual accurate position ;-) just my 2 cents.

Re: [Tagging] [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-13 Thread Sam Vekemans
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:26 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/10/14 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com: Ok, so my big question is: Why are your property boundaries rendered with solid fill? Its not indicating land use, and should be rendered as a