Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:47 PM Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 20:26, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > I'm not arguing in favor of a change in language for key name. But > the local broadly accepted classification terminology (preferably in > English for consistency sake) for the

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Tod Fitch
> On Dec 20, 2019, at 5:25 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > What I'm saying is highway=bundesstraße could be acceptable, but > straße=bundestraße wouldn't be. Mostly so way type objects with highway=* > are still potentially routable. I sure wouldn’t want to be the person in charge of

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 20:26, Paul Johnson wrote: >> > I'm not arguing in favor of a change in language for key name. But the >> > local broadly accepted classification terminology (preferably in English >> > for consistency sake) for the value. >> >> Why in English? Bundesstraße is a broadly

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:22 PM Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 20:16, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:57 PM Joseph Eisenberg < > joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Being able to speak each country's highway lingua franca would make > it a lot easier

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 20:16, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:57 PM Joseph Eisenberg > wrote: >> > Being able to speak each country's highway lingua franca would make it a >> > lot easier for OSM to become the Rosetta Stone of maps simply from ease of >> > classification. >>

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:57 PM Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > > Being able to speak each country's highway lingua franca would make it a > lot easier for OSM to become the Rosetta Stone of maps simply from ease of > classification. > > That would mean using "jalan=provinsi" instead of

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 5:22 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > While =primary refers to "A major highway linking large towns, in > developed countries normally with 2 lanes. In areas with worse > infrastructure road quality may be far worse" >

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
>> This info is probably worth recording, >> but legal status should go into a separate tag. >> > Legal status of roads in the US isn't quite as clearcut as it is in the UK, > where the highway=* tag is literally equal to that country's legal > classification, plus private roads with significant

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
> Being able to speak each country's highway lingua franca would make it a lot > easier for OSM to become the Rosetta Stone of maps simply from ease of > classification. That would mean using "jalan=provinsi" instead of "highway=primary" in Indonesia, so any global map service (like

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 4:41 PM Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > > > 20 Dec 2019, 23:04 by graemefi...@gmail.com: > > > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 19:18, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > > > > On 20. Dec 2019, at 04:02, Graeme Fitzpatrick > wrote: > > > > that [/the/] (one & only) road servicing

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 1:07 AM Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > 20 Dec 2019, 01:25 by ba...@ursamundi.org: > > So, for example, in the US, instead of motorway, trunk, primary, > secondary, tertiary, perhaps something more like freeway, expressway, > major/minor_principal (just having this would fix

Re: [Tagging] What access key for cargo bike ?

2019-12-20 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
+1 for "cargo_bike", including cargo tricycles and pedalled electric bicycles and trikes. On 12/20/19, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Florimond Berthoux wrote: >> I’m really here just to know the english word. >> In France we also say "vélo cargo" (cargo bike), so I’d go for >> cargo_bike if none

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Allen
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 23:23, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Thanks, Paul - I don't disagree with a word you said, except maybe the > importance of road construction? > It's complicated, but you understand the difference between a motorway (or whatever it is called where you are) and a dirt

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
Above it was said that the highway=trunk vs highway=primary distinction is mostly for routing applications. But allowing a proper rendering is also a main goal of the road tagging system. While it's true that road class is useful for routing when there are two alterate routes, a main reason to

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 20. Dec 2019, at 23:05, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > >> lanes=2 >> surface=unpaved > > Thanks, Martin :-) > > But would they still count as either =trunk or =primary? > > While they're of high local importance, they're definitely not > high-performance & they don't

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 at 08:53, Paul Allen wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 22:05, Graeme Fitzpatrick > wrote: > >> >> But would they still count as either =trunk or =primary? >> >> While they're of high local importance, they're definitely not >> high-performance & they don't link major

Re: [Tagging] Tag for "tax free shopping"

2019-12-20 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
Just duty_free=yes would be good for a shop in town which offers tax-free sales for international travelers. But the tag ship=duty_free is probably fine for shops in the international airport terminal which sell a mix of alcohol, perfume and other expensive gifts. Joseph On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at

Re: [Tagging] Tag for "tax free shopping"

2019-12-20 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 12/20/19 16:35, Hauke Stieler wrote: > Using shop=duty_free would unfortunately remove possible existing tags > like shop=fashion, therefore I hope for additional tags as I mentioned. And I think this is enough reason to deprecate shop=duty_free in favor of e.g. shop:duty_free=yes or similar.

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Allen
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 22:05, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > But would they still count as either =trunk or =primary? > > While they're of high local importance, they're definitely not > high-performance & they don't link major population centres either? > You have just identified three

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
20 Dec 2019, 23:04 by graemefi...@gmail.com: > > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 19:18, Martin Koppenhoefer <> dieterdre...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> >> >> > On 20. Dec 2019, at 04:02, Graeme Fitzpatrick <>> graemefi...@gmail.com>> >> > > wrote: >> > >> > that [/the/] (one & only) road

Re: [Tagging] Tag for "tax free shopping"

2019-12-20 Thread Hauke Stieler
Hi Graeme, unfortunately the situation is slightly different in Germany. Those shops I meant are no duty-free shops in general. According to the German customs [0] the refund of the taxes is also only possible under certain conditions. As far as I understand it's not possible for me as German

Re: [Tagging] Tag for "tax free shopping"

2019-12-20 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 at 00:02, Hauke Stieler wrote: > Hi, > > I recently found several stores (pharmacy, clothing store, jewelery and > others) which offer "tax free shopping". For those of you who don't know > it, this works as follows: > At least in Australia, & apparently internationally as

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 19:18, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > > On 20. Dec 2019, at 04:02, Graeme Fitzpatrick > wrote: > > > > that [/the/] (one & only) road servicing an area is dirt, if you're > lucky, 2 lanes wide, but is used constantly by heavy traffic (semi-trailers > with 3 o4 4

Re: [Tagging] Roundtrip and closed loop in relations

2019-12-20 Thread Volker Schmidt
Please revert the roundtrip wiki change, but let's put any other wiki-changes on halt for a moment. What we need to do is to find out how the roundtrip tag is being used (the wiki is suposed to document the actual use, not what the use should be) and in particular if there is a more-than sporadic

Re: [Tagging] pavement placed plaque

2019-12-20 Thread Andy Townsend
On 20/12/2019 20:41, ael wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 06:02:50PM +, Dave F via Tagging wrote: Hi I've a carved stone plaque(?) that's fixed flush into the pavement. it's to indicate the start/finish point of a long distance walk. https://whatsdavedoing.com/cotswold-way-guide/#start Two

Re: [Tagging] pavement placed plaque

2019-12-20 Thread ael
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 06:02:50PM +, Dave F via Tagging wrote: > Hi > > I've a carved stone plaque(?) that's fixed flush into the pavement. it's to > indicate the start/finish point of a long distance walk. > https://whatsdavedoing.com/cotswold-way-guide/#start > > Two questions: > > 1 Is

Re: [Tagging] pavement placed plaque

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Allen
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 18:03, Dave F via Tagging wrote: > > 1 Is plaque the best name? Our Wiki quotes Wikipedia as it being vertical, > but that seems a bit restrictive to me. > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:memorial%3Dplaque > The wiki actually says "typically attached to a wall,

Re: [Tagging] eelgrass

2019-12-20 Thread Jerry Clough - OSM via Tagging
Apologies for top-posting, but the interface in the browser does not enable me to make any sense of multiple comments. Anyway here goes: Zostera (eel-grass) grows below the tide line, so really is not an emergent plant. Other things in your list of aquatic bed vegetation are also not usually

[Tagging] pavement placed plaque

2019-12-20 Thread Dave F via Tagging
Hi I've a carved stone plaque(?) that's fixed flush into the pavement. it's to indicate the start/finish point of a long distance walk. https://whatsdavedoing.com/cotswold-way-guide/#start Two questions: 1 Is plaque the best name? Our Wiki quotes Wikipedia as it being vertical, but that

Re: [Tagging] Roundtrip and closed loop in relations

2019-12-20 Thread Francesco Ansanelli
In my opinion the options are: - deprecate roundtrip in favour of 2 tags with a generally agreed naming convention (best at this point) - keep roundtrip and closed_loop with the wiki definition I did change (relations must be updated accordingly) I read many of you asked a revert, I just want to

Re: [Tagging] Public WLAN boxes

2019-12-20 Thread marc marc
Le 20.12.19 à 15:47, Cascafico Giovanni a écrit : > > > Il mer 18 dic 2019, 16:48 Tom Pfeifer ha scritto: > > > The 'box' would contain a full access point and not just the > antenna, thus I'd prefer not to tag the > antenna alone. > > > So how to tag the whole hardware? > Shall

Re: [Tagging] Public WLAN boxes

2019-12-20 Thread Cascafico Giovanni
Il mer 18 dic 2019, 16:48 Tom Pfeifer ha scritto: > > The 'box' would contain a full access point and not just the antenna, thus > I'd prefer not to tag the > antenna alone. > So how to tag the whole hardware? Shall I refer to Key:communication:radio:repeater? >

Re: [Tagging] Roundtrip and closed loop in relations

2019-12-20 Thread Steve Doerr
On 19/12/2019 22:48, Phake Nick wrote: Merriam Webster and some other resources you have quoted are dictionary for American English, not the variant of English used by OSM. Posts by original author of the topic on the wiki talk page have explained the meaning of the term in British English.

[Tagging] Tag for "tax free shopping"

2019-12-20 Thread Hauke Stieler
Hi, I recently found several stores (pharmacy, clothing store, jewelery and others) which offer "tax free shopping". For those of you who don't know it, this works as follows: You buy something and next to your normal receipt, you'll also get an additional receipt with some tax information on

Re: [Tagging] What access key for cargo bike ?

2019-12-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Florimond Berthoux wrote: > I’m really here just to know the english word. > In France we also say "vélo cargo" (cargo bike), so I’d go for > cargo_bike if none disapprove. It's definitely a cargo bike in British English too. Richard (owner of a Circe Morpheus, which is a cargo bike of sorts:

Re: [Tagging] What access key for cargo bike ?

2019-12-20 Thread Florimond Berthoux
Well, I don’t know what the french law say, but that’s not an issue, we don’t tag the law ;) I’m really here just to know the english word. In France we also say "vélo cargo" (cargo bike), so I’d go for cargo_bike if none disapprove. Le ven. 20 déc. 2019 à 10:42, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : >

Re: [Tagging] What access key for cargo bike ?

2019-12-20 Thread Volker Schmidt
> in other words the Italian law doesn’t distinguish between cargo bikes and > other bikes. > Looks like it. But: most cargo bikes are not "bicycles" or "pedelecs" because they have more powerful motors - they fall into the S-pedelec class of vehicles, with number plates, insurance ecc. I

Re: [Tagging] What access key for cargo bike ?

2019-12-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 20. Dec 2019, at 09:42, Volker Schmidt wrote: > > Just for information the size limits for bicycles in Italy (from Polizia di > Stato): in other words the Italian law doesn’t distinguish between cargo bikes and other bikes. What about France? Cheers Martin

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 20. Dec 2019, at 04:02, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > that [/the/] (one & only) road servicing an area is dirt, if you're lucky, 2 > lanes wide, but is used constantly by heavy traffic (semi-trailers with 3 o4 > 4 trailers on the back). > > How do we tie that into

Re: [Tagging] What access key for cargo bike ?

2019-12-20 Thread Volker Schmidt
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 22:44, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > what’s the legal definition for this kind of bicycle in France? Are there > minimum/maximum dimensions? Number of wheels? > Just for information the size limits for bicycles in Italy (from Polizia di Stato