Re: [Tagging] landform promontory

> > >>Where are these features located? > > >Inland. Not near the sea. > >Not all ridges end as a promontory - some have gradual slopes. Not all > promontory are a peak, they may have a line at about the same height > leading away from them. > >They are named as 'point' here but the closest in

Re: [Tagging] landform promontory

On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 10:43, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps 'cape' should be dropped in favour of promontory as that could be > used for both land and sea? :) Water based promontories should stay as natural=cape as per the wiki they are "prominent, elevated piece of land sticking

Re: [Tagging] landform promontory

On 04/10/18 09:40, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: Where are these features located? Inland. Not near the sea. For the same reason you would not tag a cape as a ridge or a peak you would not tag a promontory as a ridge or a peak. Not all ridges end as a promontory - some have gradual slopes. Not

Re: [Tagging] Default Language Format; language:default or default:language?

>"in multilingual regions you will typically have a majority and minorities. Aiming at the majority only would effectively result in a single name in most multilingual areas " Sorry, I don't mean "the majority language used in communication" or anything like that, but "the language used for the

Re: [Tagging] landform promontory

Where are these features located? I haven't seen anything called a "promontory" in the western USA: we would call these features ridges or cliffs if they are hills or mountains above lower land, or if they are surrounded by water they would be a headland, peninsula, cape, or "point". In OSM,

[Tagging] landform promontory

Hi, There is not a tag for the land form 'promontory' meaning a raised mass of land projecting into a low land or water body. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promontory I have come across them as named 'points' and have been tagging a few of them as place=locality for lack of something

Re: [Tagging] motorcar definition changed recently

On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 11:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > I have tried to fix the picture and found, that there are now 2 distinct > traffic signs, one is for all 2-tracked motor vehicles, including cars: >

Re: [Tagging] hydrants

> How would we verify check date, surely that is a record kept by the fire > brigade? > > Phil (trigpoint) Hi Phil, well, operational_status:date can be inserted directly by firefighters. I am a firfighter and we are interested in having this information online, expecially when we are sent to

Re: [Tagging] motorcar definition changed recently

It is time to give this twofold meaning a split, into two separate keys. Within openstreetmap it can not have a twofold meaning! The law in many countries also speaks of double tracked or more then two wheels. It is clear to me the new key must be double_tracked_motor_vehicle or short,

Re: [Tagging] Default Language Format; language:default or default:language?

sent from a phone > On 2. Oct 2018, at 16:13, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:06 PM Martin Koppenhoefer >> wrote: >> >> What are the criteria for adding it (e.g. is there a minimum percentage?)? > > I think there should usually be a majority, but that's up to the

Re: [Tagging] Default Language Format; language:default or default:language?

3. Oct 2018 05:06 by graemefi...@gmail.com : > OK, now I'm getting even more confused? > Macca's is marked as both name:en & name:th & shows on the map as McDonalds > But the street just above > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/77991177 >

Re: [Tagging] motorcar definition changed recently

I have tried to fix the picture and found, that there are now 2 distinct traffic signs, one is for all 2-tracked motor vehicles, including cars:

Re: [Tagging] relation site <> multipolygon

My main use for site relation are for historical sites to group the historical elements of the castle or other historical site including the wall, moat, buildings (especially the ones touching each other) and various nodes. An example in the historical commandry of the Hospital order (in Belgium)

Re: [Tagging] motorcar definition changed recently

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 17:58, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > Thank you, I have now reverted the change wrt to motorcar. I've also reverted the change on the page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motorcar and tried to make the different meanings of that tag when either used as permission or