[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Orphanage

2010-05-27 Thread y...@o2.pl
Hello, I moved old orphanage draft to RFC, feel free to comment. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Orphanage Regards, Paweł Marynowski User:Yarl ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Orphanage

2010-05-27 Thread John Smith
2010/5/27 y...@o2.pl y...@o2.pl: I moved old orphanage draft to RFC, feel free to comment. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Orphanage Can we use some other key instead of yet another amenity=*? In fact there is so many amenities we should perhaps think about splitting them

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Orphanage

2010-05-27 Thread y...@o2.pl
2010/5/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: Can we use some other key instead of yet another amenity=*? In fact there is so many amenities we should perhaps think about splitting them off into other categories... Sounds like a good idea. There is also another proposal: residental home

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Orphanage

2010-05-27 Thread Jason Cunningham
I agree with Pawel. I'd prefer 'residential home' with residents=children I think use of the word Orphanage has nearly disapeared in the UK because the word means children have permanently lost their parents, but many of children in 'children's homes' may only be there for a short period while

[Tagging] Proposed feature : World wide place=* standardisation only based on population

2010-05-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Here is another try for world wide standardisation of places in order to hopefully try to create a consistent database and not a renderer work around font label positionning system http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/world_wide_place_default_standardisation fake quote of the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Orphanage

2010-05-27 Thread Pieren
2010/5/27 y...@o2.pl y...@o2.pl 2010/5/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In fact there is so many amenities we should perhaps think about splitting them off into other categories... Sounds like a good idea. No. The amount of values should not influence the key. The question is

Re: [Tagging] Proposed feature : World wide place=* standardisationonly based on population

2010-05-27 Thread John F. Eldredge
In the USA, the definition varies from state to state. For example, Tennessee (where I live) does not have an official definition of town vs. city, and every town or city is contained within a county. In Virginia, towns are contained within counties, and subordinate to them; cities are

Re: [Tagging] Proposed feature : World wide place=* standardisation only based on population

2010-05-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:28 AM, sly (sylvain letuffe) li...@letuffe.org wrote: Here is another try for world wide standardisation of places in order to hopefully try to create a consistent database I like your motivation. But maybe it's not necessary. Using population=* achieves the same

Re: [Tagging] Proposed feature : World wide place=* sta ndardisation only based on population

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew
Roy Wallace waldo000...@... writes: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:28 AM, sly (sylvain letuffe) li...@... wrote: Here is another try for world wide standardisation of places in order to hopefully try to create a consistent database I like your motivation. But maybe it's not necessary.

Re: [Tagging] highway=services

2010-05-27 Thread Craig Wallace
On 27/05/2010 22:09, Liz wrote: rest area has been redirected to highway=services with a note to a Wikipedia entry. The wikipedia entry is huge and after much scrolling down the page it becomes quite obvious that Rest Area has many meanings on highways worldwide. While highway=services is

Re: [Tagging] highway=services

2010-05-27 Thread John F. Eldredge
In Tennessee, USA, where I live, the Interstates (motorways) both parking areas (no services other than a place to park temporarily) and rest areas (with parking, rest rooms, soft drink/candy machines, and frequently local tourist-information pamphlets. They may or may not have an attendant on

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Orphanage

2010-05-27 Thread John Smith
On 28 May 2010 01:10, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/27 y...@o2.pl y...@o2.pl 2010/5/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In fact there is so many amenities we should perhaps think about splitting them off into other categories... Sounds like a good idea. No. The amount of

Re: [Tagging] highway=services

2010-05-27 Thread John Smith
On 28 May 2010 10:19, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: In Tennessee, USA, where I live, the Interstates (motorways) both parking areas (no services other than a place to park temporarily) and rest areas (with parking, rest rooms, soft drink/candy machines, and frequently local

Re: [Tagging] Proposed feature : World wide place=* standardisation only based on population

2010-05-27 Thread John Smith
On 28 May 2010 01:30, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote: population-based. A region center in a non-urban area may be That just means we need place=regional_centre to render similar to place=city, currently places in Australia need this rendering, they may be small towns both in area and

Re: [Tagging] Proposed feature : World wide place=* standardisation only based on population

2010-05-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Andrew wynnd...@lavabit.com wrote: I like your motivation. But maybe it's not necessary. Using population=* achieves the same goal. There are two serious flaws with using  population=*. The first is that you have to put in populations for absolutely

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Orphanage

2010-05-27 Thread Steve Bennett
2010/5/27 y...@o2.pl y...@o2.pl: Sounds like a good idea. There is also another proposal: residental home (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Residential_home) with tagging amenity=residential_home + residents=childen/veterans/disabled/etc. Maybe we should merge these

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Orphanage

2010-05-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: How about: landuse=residential residential=childrens_home The benefit of two-tiered tags like this is renderers (and other tools) only need to support landuse=residential to get something that's approximately right.