Re: [Tagging] Footways where pedestrians may only walk in one direction: oneway:foot=yes or foot:backward=no?

2020-04-15 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 4/15/20 22:03, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > But as an English speaker, I find it difficult to immediately > understand the meaning of foot:backward=no (which uses a double > negative, as it were), while oneway:foot=yes seems clear right away. > > Is there really a reason to prefer the less common

Re: [Tagging] Footways where pedestrians may only walk in one direction: oneway:foot=yes or foot:backward=no?

2020-04-15 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 13:04, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > > But as an English speaker, I find it difficult to immediately > understand the meaning of foot:backward=no (which uses a double > negative, as it were), while oneway:foot=yes seems clear right away. > As another native English speaker,

Re: [Tagging] Footways where pedestrians may only walk in one direction: oneway:foot=yes or foot:backward=no?

2020-04-15 Thread Andrew Harvey
To sidestep your question, oneway=yes on a highway=footway, cycleway or path already implies it's not accessible to vehicles so a oneway tag on any of those highway tags should apply to all modes of transport. So highway=footway + oneway=yes shouldn't need any other tags like oneway:foot. On Thu,

[Tagging] Footways where pedestrians may only walk in one direction: oneway:foot=yes or foot:backward=no?

2020-04-15 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
Some paths and footways have oneway=yes. Sometimes this means that bicycles may only access these features in one direction, but other times it has been used for one-way features for pedestrians (for example, queues in theme parks or at border control stations). Other more specific tags have been

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - traffic_signals=crossing_on_demand

2020-04-15 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On 15/04/2020 09:27, John Willis via Tagging wrote: On Apr 15, 2020, at 8:34 PM, Paul Allen wrote: The traffic lights control the junction We have a lot of traffic light controlled crossings in Japan that are just for a crosswalk, while the smaller intersecting road is stop-sign controlled

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - traffic_signals=crossing_on_demand

2020-04-15 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On 15/04/2020 05:33, lukas-...@web.de wrote: Okay, so this is what I think, too and maybe I would clarify this in the wiki then. But I think in some cases it still wouldn't be clear, because what would be about mapping this then:

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Refugee Site Location

2020-04-15 Thread Warin
On 16/4/20 1:23 am, Manon Viou wrote: Thanks Martin, yes, refugee sites should always be temporary even if, as you said, some turn to be very long term places. That's why we do not suggest to add temporary/permanent options. Manon In which case the description for amenity=social_facility +

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Refugee Site Location

2020-04-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mi., 15. Apr. 2020 um 17:37 Uhr schrieb Manon Viou : > Hello again Martin, > I agree large and small are quite relative concepts, I proposed to set a > threshold to "less than 5 buildings" because it was the easiest way I > found. I'm not sure counting people is feasible at least for remote

Re: [Tagging] insurance health

2020-04-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mi., 15. Apr. 2020 um 16:05 Uhr schrieb Frederik Ramm < frede...@remote.org>: > and a proper staffed office in a city. These sales representatives are > usually self-employed and get a kickback from every contract they sell. indeed, it wouldn't even be important where they are, because you

Re: [Tagging] insurance health

2020-04-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mi., 15. Apr. 2020 um 15:55 Uhr schrieb Greg Troxel : > If there is a preset for "insurance" and a subtype for what kind, I > think most people would complete their tagging in seconds. And this is > something that isn't super common, and many people mapping it will be > tagging one, very

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Refugee Site Location

2020-04-15 Thread Manon Viou
Hello again Martin, I agree large and small are quite relative concepts, I proposed to set a threshold to "less than 5 buildings" because it was the easiest way I found. I'm not sure counting people is feasible at least for remote mapping or data integration from NGO or other

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Refugee Site Location

2020-04-15 Thread Manon Viou
Thanks Martin, yes, refugee sites should always be temporary even if, as you said, some turn to be very long term places. That's why we do not suggest to add temporary/permanent options.  Manon Le 15 avril 2020 à 11:36, Martin Koppenhoefer <

Re: [Tagging] insurance health

2020-04-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 15.04.20 03:16, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > OK, but are there any countries in the world where you can would > normally buy health insurance in the same place as car or home or life > insurance? Yes, sure. Many big German insurers offer health insurance and other insurances (e.g. life, car,

Re: [Tagging] insurance health

2020-04-15 Thread Paul Allen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 14:55, Greg Troxel wrote: > > If there is a preset for "insurance" and a subtype for what kind, I > think most people would complete their tagging in seconds. And this is > something that isn't super common, and many people mapping it will be > tagging one, very

Re: [Tagging] insurance health

2020-04-15 Thread Greg Troxel
On 2020-04-14 21:16, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: OK, but are there any countries in the world where you can would normally buy health insurance in the same place as car or home or life insurance? I don't know. Many countries might not even allow this. If not, then this is a theoretical problem

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - traffic_signals=crossing_on_demand

2020-04-15 Thread Lukas-458
Maybe there would be some reason th change the proposal on tagging traffic_signals=crossing_only to make it more clear in teh value that only those traffic lights are meant with it, which do control only a crossing. But if that would be a solution at all, I don't really know. Because I think there

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - traffic_signals=crossing_on_demand

2020-04-15 Thread John Willis via Tagging
> On Apr 15, 2020, at 8:34 PM, Paul Allen wrote: > > The traffic lights control the junction We have a lot of traffic light controlled crossings in Japan that are just for a crosswalk, while the smaller intersecting road is stop-sign controlled for cars. Only the crosswalk is controlled by

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Tag:amenity=motorcycle_taxi

2020-04-15 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
Voting is now open for the tag amenity=motorcycle_taxi: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:amenity%3Dmotorcycle_taxi "Use amenity=motorcycle_taxi for the location of a motorcycle taxi stand, a place where motorcycle taxi drivers wait for passengers." In many countries in

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - traffic_signals=crossing_on_demand

2020-04-15 Thread Paul Allen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 10:36, wrote: > Which was mentioned a few posts before? The traffic lights control the > junction, but people might say that the same one single traffic light is > controlling the pedestrian crossing and the junction... > I would say that it is controlling the crossing

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Refugee Site Location

2020-04-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 15. Apr 2020, at 10:17, Manon Viou wrote: > > amenity=refugee_site and amenity=social_facility + social_facility=shelter. > amenity=refugee_site is for large refugee site > amenity=social_facility and social_facility=shelter is f or small refugee > site (less than 5

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Refugee Site Location

2020-04-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 15. Apr 2020, at 01:13, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would think amenity=refugee_site is an area set aside for the non-temporary > residential use of refugees maybe I’m a dreamer, but I would expect all refugee related features to be “temporary”, even

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - traffic_signals=crossing_on_demand

2020-04-15 Thread Lukas-458
Okay, so this is what I think, too and maybe I would clarify this in the wiki then.   But I think in some cases it still wouldn't be clear, because what would be about mapping this then: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.0898304,-4.6450624,3a,75y,122.71h,87.75t/data="">   Which was mentioned

Re: [Tagging] insurance health

2020-04-15 Thread Lukas-458
"I am still not completely sure, but I believe, "Allianz" is a group here, and health care insurance will be provided by a member of this group, and agents will sell you any product the group offers (i.e. in the details they are different "companies", but you can find several of these companies

Re: [Tagging] insurance health

2020-04-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 15. Apr 2020, at 03:17, Joseph Eisenberg > wrote: > > But it takes more time for each mapper to add 2 tags instead of one. > Mapper time is the most precious resource in OpenStreetMap: we don't > have enough mappers, and most are working for free, for fun. > Let's make

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Refugee Site Location

2020-04-15 Thread Manon Viou
Hello Warin,  the description does ditinguish amenity=refugee_site and amenity=social_facility + social_facility=shelter.  amenity=refugee_site is for large refugee site amenity=social_facility and social_facility=shelter is f or small refugee site (less