Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-12 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 12/12/2013 05:53 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2013/12/12 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com IMHO it would be nice to have an alternative dataset in lower zoomlevels for geographic regions and extended/blurry features, something like a set of shapefiles with translations into all languages

Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-12 Thread bulwersator
With mountain ranges there would be a major problem where node should be placed. Carpathian Mountains cover 190 000 km² - good luck with edit wars where node should be placed. It probably would work better as a separate database. On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 03:09:47 -0800 Andrew Guertin

Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-12 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/12/12 Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu Many villages or other small human settlements have no clearly defined boundaries, and we just represent them as a node. IMHO big human settlements are more difficult than small ones when it comes to define their edges. You can represent (from

Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-12 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2013-12-12 at 12:37:30 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2013/12/12 Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu Many villages or other small human settlements have no clearly defined boundaries, and we just represent them as a node. IMHO big human settlements are more difficult than small ones

Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-12 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/12/12 Elena ``of Valhalla'' elena.valha...@gmail.com big human settlements tend to be associated with one or more clearly define legal entities and we tend to map those, not the actual settlement. actually we are mapping both, and there is no compelling reason to refrain from mapping

Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-12 Thread Kytömaa Lauri
it won't be a clearly defined border where some meters more or less matter or are clearly definable IMO one can always ask the locals/local geologists is this location/point a part of the mountain/mountain range. At some point, everybody agrees that it is, and somewhere further down the

Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-12 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:24 PM, bulwersator bulwersa...@zoho.com wrote: With mountain ranges there would be a major problem where node should be placed. Carpathian Mountains cover 190 000 km² - good luck with edit wars where node should be placed. It'd be a way, not a node. And maybe there

Re: [Tagging] [Imports] IENC of the German WSV

2013-12-12 Thread fly
On 11.12.2013 11:58, Pieren wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Malcolm Herring malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com wrote: Anyway, this thread is about the import, not the tagging! I know that we all love to argue about tags, but this is best done in the tagging list. Yes, what is the

Re: [Tagging] Propose the tag shop=military_surplus

2013-12-12 Thread fly
On 06.12.2013 14:25, Dan S wrote: 2013/12/6 Axelos gnu...@laposte.net: Hello Le 05/12/2013 12:16, SomeoneElse a écrit : Axelos wrote: I proposed the tag shop=military_surplus for the shops selling used military equipment. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Military_surplus If you

Re: [Tagging] [Imports] IENC of the German WSV

2013-12-12 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 11/12/2013 11:15, Malcolm Herring a écrit : It is not rather than, but as well as. The harbour object is tagged with a list of *available* facilities, the tag values being free text to qualify those availabilities. e.g. harbour:toilets could take the value private, access by code. I

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Baby care

2013-12-12 Thread fly
On 06.12.2013 02:24, Satoshi IIDA wrote: Hi list, I have created a proposal page to describe Baby care schema. It's now on RFC stage with this mail. Please feel free to add your comments on the page. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/babycare Your proposal is not