Re: [Tagging] wetland=bog, why only "receive their water and nutrients from rainfall"?

2016-01-23 Thread Dave Swarthout
I've seen that same sentence and IMO the Wiki goes too far in specifying that rainfall brings nutrients. While it may do that, the amount of nutrients is surely tiny relative to what comes from the ground. Plus, there is no way for a mapper to determine whether rainfall is an important component of

Re: [Tagging] Removing name_1 and alt_name_1 from Wiki

2016-01-23 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
Taped "send" to early, here's the rest of my email: On 23 January 2016 15:14:22 GMT+00:00, "Lauri Kytömaa" wrote: >I believe this is a good point to make, the origin for many of those >tags. >While the number of uses is reason to keep them as-is, if a major slice >of them comes from an import, t

Re: [Tagging] Removing name_1 and alt_name_1 from Wiki

2016-01-23 Thread moltonel
On 23 January 2016 15:14:22 GMT+00:00, "Lauri Kytömaa" wrote: >I believe this is a good point to make, the origin for many of those >tags. >While the number of uses is reason to keep them as-is, if a major slice >of them comes from an import, the ratio isn't a good reason to >*recommend* >enter

Re: [Tagging] wetland=bog, why only "receive their water and nutrients from rainfall"?

2016-01-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Saturday 23 January 2016, David Marchal wrote: > > I tagged some bogs today, and I wondered: why does the wiki restricts > bogs to "depressions that receive their water and nutrients from > rainfall"? AFAIK, bogs are not necessarily isolated from water > streams or bodies. Wikipedia talls about

[Tagging] wetland=bog, why only "receive their water and nutrients from rainfall"?

2016-01-23 Thread David Marchal
Hello, there. I tagged some bogs today, and I wondered: why does the wiki restricts bogs to "depressions that receive their water and nutrients from rainfall"? AFAIK, bogs are not necessarily isolated from water streams or bodies. Wikipedia talls about sloping bogs where running water is interc

Re: [Tagging] Removing name_1 and alt_name_1 from Wiki

2016-01-23 Thread Lauri Kytömaa
On Wed, Mike N wrote: > On 1/20/2016 3:39 PM, Dominic Coletti wrote: >> I see 808,000 uses of name_1 and 65,000 of name_2. > Many of these are from the US TIGER import, and must not be automatically > removed. They would go into alt_name , etc based on local knowledge. I believe this is a good po

Re: [Tagging] key:priority

2016-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Lauri Kytömaa wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:priority > > > > Would there be any major objection to expanding the priority key to > include > > two way, multilane situations? Example would

Re: [Tagging] key:priority

2016-01-23 Thread Lauri Kytömaa
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:priority > > Would there be any major objection to expanding the priority key to include > two way, multilane situations? Example would be a two way street that was > formerly a one-way street, and has si

Re: [Tagging] Tagging scrap yards, junkyards

2016-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:16 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2016-01-20 2:03 GMT+01:00 Dave Swarthout : > >> After consulting Taginfo I've come up with these two tags for now: >> landuse=industrial >> industrial=scrap_yard >> >> Opinions, suggestions? >> > > > > I'd prefer a "feature" tag, rat