Re: [Tagging] Public buildings

> On Jan 10, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To me an office building could be used for any administrative work. > Government department sections here change locations - the education > department human resources can move to another location ... even swap with >

Re: [Tagging] Public buildings

I agree, John. The boundary between "public buildings" and others is becoming increasingly vague. Many "governmental" tasks are carried out by third parties nowadays, for example many prisons are operated by private companies on behalf of the state, same with a lot of healthcare provision (which

[Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

Hi all, I am currently (armchair) mapping rural areas in Japan, that means realigning nearly all existing ways. Whenever I am mapping landuse=farmland areas I wonder whether I should 1) draw one rather large polygon stretching across all highway=track ways and small buildings which are

Re: [Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

Haha, welcome to the club. This is a problem everyone faces. Here in Thailand I spend a lot of time breaking up large wood multipolygons because in the early days folks did not take the time to do it right. Woods do not cover highways (unless its a farm track) nor do they cover water features like

Re: [Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

On 10/01/2016 8:55 PM, Gerd Petermann wrote: Dave Swarthout wrote Haha, welcome to the club. This is a problem everyone faces. Here in Thailand I spend a lot of time breaking up large wood multipolygons because in the early days folks did not take the time to do it right. Woods do not cover

Re: [Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

>Will have a look at it, but it doesn't sound like a tool I would want to use >unless it can be configured to use fewer nodes. Also not sure what is meant with "it looks better". I mean it follows the actual outline of the forest so therefore it looks more true to life, that is, "better" The

Re: [Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

> On Jan 10, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Gerd Petermann > wrote: > > Whenever I am mapping landuse=farmland areas I wonder whether I should > 1) draw one rather large polygon stretching across all highway=track ways > and small buildings which are likely used by the

Re: [Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 09:08:41PM +1100, Warin wrote: > I take the view that residential areas are drawn over an entire area .. and > then roads, parks, buildings are drawn over the top of it. I think the same > should occur with other things. +1: a rural track belongs to the farmland, no

Re: [Tagging] Public buildings

sent from a phone Am 10.01.2016 um 01:49 schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: >>> that should describe the architectural type of a building. > In some parts of the world .. 'public buildings' do have an 'architectural > style'. please note that type is different from style, type is about

Re: [Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

On 10/01/2016 8:23 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote: Haha, welcome to the club. This is a problem everyone faces. Here in Thailand I spend a lot of time breaking up large wood multipolygons because in the early days folks did not take the time to do it right. Woods do not cover highways (unless its a

Re: [Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

Warin wrote > On 10/01/2016 8:55 PM, Gerd Petermann wrote: >> Dave Swarthout wrote >>> Haha, welcome to the club. This is a problem everyone faces. Here in >>> Thailand I spend a lot of time breaking up large wood multipolygons >>> because >>> in the early days folks did not take the time to do it

Re: [Tagging] Public buildings

sent from a phone > Am 10.01.2016 um 08:58 schrieb johnw : > > I wish people would realize that leaving governmental stuff out in the cold > to have pieces added to other tagging schemes bit by bit until it is > acattered all over makes for a plainly inferior map, does not

Re: [Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

dieterdreist wrote > sent from a phone > >> Am 10.01.2016 um 09:21 schrieb Gerd Petermann > GPetermann_muenchen@ > : >> >> I am currently (armchair) mapping rural areas in Japan, that means >> realigning nearly all >> >> existing ways. >> > > > how do you know the correct alignment if

Re: [Tagging] Removing name_1 and alt_name_1 from Wiki

On 9 January 2016 at 18:50, Hakuch wrote: > I propose, to remove the tagging of name_1 and alt_name_1 from the wiki. I disagree. > **better use diverse name-tags** Diverse name tags are a good thing when there is some semantic difference between names, but often enough

Re: [Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

sent from a phone > Am 10.01.2016 um 09:21 schrieb Gerd Petermann > : > > I am currently (armchair) mapping rural areas in Japan, that means realigning > nearly all > > existing ways. > how do you know the correct alignment if you're just armchair

Re: [Tagging] landuse=farmland and highway=track

sent from a phone > Am 10.01.2016 um 13:02 schrieb Richard : > > +1: a rural track belongs to the farmland, no need to split it up. this is disputable, at least in Germany a track definitely doesn't belong to the adjacent farmland. Whether you want to split it up or