[Tagging] Tagging several old_name's

2010-10-25 Thread Dmitry Granovsky
Hi all, There are lots of toponyms that change their names several times throughout their history. It seems that a single old_name tag is fairly insufficient if we just enumerate all the semicolon-separated values, and so is the old_nameN way since both don't state anything about the order of

Re: [Tagging] Tagging several old_name's

2010-10-25 Thread John Smith
On 25 October 2010 16:16, Dmitry Granovsky dima.granov...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any ideas? (If I missed a previous discussion on the same topic, could you please point that to me.) You could use a relation with start/end dates and just use name=*

Re: [Tagging] Announce: New #osm-tagging dedicated IRC chat on oftc.net

2010-10-25 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/25 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de: You already get very different tagging advice depending on whether you ask on, say, tagging, talk-de, the forum, or the wiki. So I question whether it's wise to create another mostly isolated group of people who will start to breed their own,

Re: [Tagging] highway=informal_path WAS: Re: new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-25 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/25 Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com: For example, what would you tag this? http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8hq=hnear=Vercelli,+Piedmont,+Italyll=45.314604,8.414012spn=0.001633,0.004128t=hz=19layer=ccbll=45.314594,8.413845panoid=VAMbvxwaZiigA_JUOfHBkwcbp=12,348.5,,0,31.53 I guess

Re: [Tagging] Tagging several old_name's

2010-10-25 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/10/25 Dmitry Granovsky dima.granov...@gmail.com: name:- is not bad. However, we have to somehow combine it with name:LANG tags: name:en:1945-1954 or name:1945-1954:en. Have you ever seen it implemented? One could use name:old:-, or name:old:N to give a chronological order

Re: [Tagging] Chamber of Commerce?

2010-10-25 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Sábado 23 Octubre 2010 09:34:50 Vincent Pottier escribió: On 23/10/2010 02:00, Alan Mintz wrote: In most cities in the US, and even some smaller towns, there's an organization called the Chamber of Commerce. With varying participation from municipal government, it's a portal for new

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - surface=winter_road

2010-10-25 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/surface:winter_road -- Totus tuus, Glebius. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/22/2010 08:08 PM, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Peter Budnypet...@gatech.edu wrote: It looks like Richmond, Indiana and Wayne Township are an example. Richmond is not part of any county. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/23/2010 08:45 AM, Ralf Kleineisel wrote: On 10/22/2010 09:50 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: That’s not what the wiki says. It says “If a path is wide enough for four-wheel-vehicles […] it is often better tagged as a highway=track.” That doesn’t mean that that is the only criterion. Then what

Re: [Tagging] highway=informal_path WAS: Re: new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-25 Thread Ralf Kleineisel
On 10/25/2010 10:29 AM, Simone Saviolo wrote: the street you have to jump down the curb (some 15 cm curb). This is really not a path, IMHO It is definitely a path, IMHO. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-25 Thread john
For that matter, roads originally intended for motor vehicle use are sometimes later changed to being restricted to bicycle and/or foot use, particularly in public parks. These park roads will often have a gate blocking vehicular entry, with official personnel able to open the gate when

Re: [Tagging] atms with names?

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/23/2010 04:00 AM, Peter Wendorff wrote: Relations are to relate things to each other. Therefore the role is the interesting part of the relation concept. A group of things, where none of them has a specific role is not a relation, it's a collection or category. That would apply to the

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/24/2010 04:30 AM, M[measured angle :-p]rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: I inform you that I am using informal=yes for ways that are not constructed and not maintained or signposted but are only there for the fact that someone uses them. That sounds to me like a good way to handle it. It would

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-25 Thread Felix Hartmann
On 25.10.2010 22:29, Alex Mauer wrote: On 10/24/2010 04:30 AM, M[measured angle :-p]rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: I inform you that I am using informal=yes for ways that are not constructed and not maintained or signposted but are only there for the fact that someone uses them. That sounds to me

Re: [Tagging] new highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/25/2010 04:36 PM, Felix Hartmann wrote: Most people underestimate that for many informal looking trails, there are actually people caring to keep them in shape. Be it paid trailbuilders, hunters, forestry staff or simply residents that want to have a trail for unknown reason. There is