Re: [Tagging] Advice clarification of the railway tracks=* tag required.

2012-08-07 Thread Alan Mintz
would be tagged tracks=1 (or have no tracks=* tag at all, since this is documented to mean the same thing as tracks=1). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Tagging] tagging awards and ratings

2012-07-29 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-07-29 13:19, Pieren wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: I said nothing about copying all Michelin rating[s]. We've been talking about surveys and local knowledge from people seeing the ratings in the window or advertising or word

Re: [Tagging] tagging awards and ratings

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
it in OSM. I'm given to understand that, in France in particular, this information is commonly known and mentioned when describing a restaurant. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Tagging] How to tag a trailer_park ?

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
=-117.6951zoom=17 Definitely the latter - a mobile home park. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] tagging awards and ratings

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-07-27 15:23, Pieren wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: Just to be clear, this is exactly the case I envision, and something our crowd-source model should be good at - people seeing/knowing from local knowledge that a restaurant has

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-dev] Multiple values warning in P2

2012-07-26 Thread Alan Mintz
[Moved from dev] At 2012-07-26 01:42, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Alan Mintz wrote: Semi-colons are the agreed-upon way to provide multiple values for a field. It seems wrong to warn of their use, especially given the demonstrated potential to cause users to fix such values incorrectly. In most

Re: [Tagging] tagging awards and ratings

2012-07-26 Thread Alan Mintz
with a different meaning somewhere (like maybe handicap-accessible), you have a collision. I suggest award:Award_System=Award -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] proposing a page on the wiki: tag names do not always correspond to their definitions

2012-05-17 Thread Alan Mintz
from Indonesia pointed out) to create your own presets (or have them created for you) and name them whatever you want. Other editors have limited and/or hierarchical tagging with icons that accomplish the same thing. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] beer details, draught beer

2012-05-09 Thread Alan Mintz
somewhere, maybe the central coast (south of San Francisco). You might also check the San Diego area. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] addr

2012-05-08 Thread Alan Mintz
subdivision is regularly used in addresses. In the US, we have a first-level subdivision in addr:state, addr:city is second-level, and there is no third-level specified in an address. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: Ojeq Stand

2012-04-30 Thread Alan Mintz
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtaxi . Add taxi=motorcycle;car;hov or maybe individual tags like motorcycle=yes, etc. in the style of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Access#Transport_mode_restrictions . -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] Waterway directionality in drainage canals

2012-04-28 Thread Alan Mintz
appears to be oneway=yes. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] How to tag disputed names in the same language?

2012-04-22 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-04-21 23:36, Paul Johnson wrote: On Apr 21, 2012 2:29 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Apr 20, 2012 9:04 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: I would go with name:en-PH

Re: [Tagging] How to tag disputed names in the same language?

2012-04-20 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-04-20 08:29, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: One possible way is to introduce ISO country codes (in all caps) and with a format similar to int_name:: PH_name:en=Panatag Shoal I would go with name:en-PH=* or name:en:PH=* to mimic the standard IETF language tag format. -- Alan Mintz

Re: [Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

2012-04-19 Thread Alan Mintz
a center turn lane (e.g. lanes=5 means 2 forward, 2 backward, 1 center). +1 to the rest. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Gated communities - access=private or destination?

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Mintz
such gated communities as access=private. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Gated communities - access=private or destination?

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-04-15 01:10, Nathan Edgars II wrote: How would you distinguish an entry for visitors from an entry for residents only? name= or ref= or whatever else Mapnik was designed to render on a gate. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] Gated communities - access=private or destination?

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Mintz
at a higher priority than using the house icon associated with addr:housenumber. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Gated communities - access=private or destination?

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-04-15 13:55, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 4/15/2012 6:30 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2012-04-15 01:10, Nathan Edgars II wrote: How would you distinguish an entry for visitors from an entry for residents only? name= or ref= or whatever else Mapnik was designed to render on a gate. That's

Re: [Tagging] access=no (was Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking))

2012-02-22 Thread Alan Mintz
-permanent barriers to vehicles and humans at both ends (perhaps because it's washed out or otherwise unsafe). If those barriers are to vehicles only, I would add foot=yes. I think/hope this is what the access page on the wiki attempts to describe. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] tagging of ele / elevation data e.g. in the context of towers

2012-02-20 Thread Alan Mintz
to the WGS84/GPS and/or survey elevation but I'd expect them to be close. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] tagging of ele / elevation data e.g. in the context of towers

2012-02-20 Thread Alan Mintz
tags. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] tagging of ele / elevation data e.g. in the context of towers

2012-02-20 Thread Alan Mintz
of an object - one would always use/expect to read height for that. The words are not synonymous. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

[Tagging] Missing only_u_turn?

2011-06-18 Thread Alan Mintz
On the turn restrictions page, there is no mention of only_u_turn, yet I've found these to exist in the real world. Any objection to adding this restriction? If not, how do I go about telling consumers about the change? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

[Tagging] Cemetery section tagging

2011-06-08 Thread Alan Mintz
different ways to tag here - I'm just looking for a clue as to which one might result in the rendering I'm looking for. If there isn't one, how can I get the default Mapnik rendering to draw a thin, contrasting outline around amenity=grave_yard, assuming there isn't an objection? -- Alan Mintz

Re: [Tagging] convention for multiple maxspeed values

2011-04-24 Thread Alan Mintz
) maxspeed:children_present (for school zones) thanks, richard ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-10 Thread Alan Mintz
as a gymnasium. I noticed a note on the bottom of the page that a bot changed ~1500 gyms to sport=gymnastics!? If so, that was almost certainly wrong if people have been using the term as per US common usage. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] How to tag pipestems (shared driveways)

2011-02-26 Thread Alan Mintz
with the public road), and then tag the individual driveways off of it as highway=service + service=driveway (if I draw them at all). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] RFC: generator:* (for power=generator features)

2011-02-21 Thread Alan Mintz
generator:source=diesel and generator:source=gasoline to the documentation? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] RFC: generator:* (for power=generator features)

2011-02-21 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-02-21 05:30, Tom Chance wrote: On 21 February 2011 11:08, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2010-08-26 05:08, Tom Chance wrote: On 26 August 2010 13:43, André Riedel riedel.an...@gmail.com wrote: ... The source of energy used (generator:source) Combined

Re: [Tagging] Towing service?

2011-01-10 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-01-07 02:19, Ulf Lamping wrote: Am 07.01.2011 03:26, schrieb Alan Mintz: I can't find a tag for the base of operations of a towing service - i.e. you call them to tow your broken car or truck to a repair shop. The basic definition would be a service that tows cars and other light

[Tagging] Fwd: Re: Towing service?

2011-01-10 Thread Alan Mintz
I wrote: At 2011-01-07 02:19, Ulf Lamping wrote: Am 07.01.2011 03:26, schrieb Alan Mintz: I can't find a tag for the base of operations of a towing service - i.e. you call them to tow your broken car or truck to a repair shop. The basic definition would be a service that tows cars and other

[Tagging] Towing service?

2011-01-06 Thread Alan Mintz
: shop=towing [+ hgv=yes] -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Mapping gentle slopes?

2011-01-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-01-04 07:13, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Is there a way to tag that a street is downhill in the forward or backward direction? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:incline -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] Airport subtypes

2010-12-31 Thread Alan Mintz
would like to work on it). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] refs describing routes instead of ways

2010-12-22 Thread Alan Mintz
to render other than the route numbers in ref. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Operator in leisure=stadium?

2010-12-18 Thread Alan Mintz
than TagWatch? It takes longer than I'd like to use because of it all being on one page. I'd be willing to work on splitting it into multiple pages (by first character perhaps) if the script is in a language I can hack. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] Fixed position GPS receivers

2010-12-13 Thread Alan Mintz
://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/740570067 -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] self-storage facilities

2010-12-12 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-12-11 14:29, Nathan Edgars II wrote: There is some use of http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/tags/amenity=storage but I don't know if any (except for the ones I tagged) are used for this type of facility. I've been using amenity=storage. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] self-storage facilities

2010-12-12 Thread Alan Mintz
to commercial customers may offer enhanced services, like cold storage, which could be added with additional tags, but I doubt they care whether you're just some guy, some guy with a fictitious firm name filed, some incorporated guy, or some guy working for a huge corporation. -- Alan Mintz

[Tagging] Chamber of Commerce?

2010-10-22 Thread Alan Mintz
businesses in addressing the city, sometimes informal arbitration, etc. There are only a handful of existing tags with the name [Cc]hamber [oO]f [Cc]ommerce, with no consistent tagging. Any objection to amenity=chamber_of_commerce ? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] operator and brand WAS: Re: community centres

2010-09-28 Thread Alan Mintz
itself, the operator=Le Méridien tag would be appropriate as well. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Approved: power generator rationalisation

2010-09-18 Thread Alan Mintz
and the method, e.g. power_source=photovoltaic. It seems like there was a rational (i.e. 1:1) map of old values to new values possible. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Tagging] power=tower or pole?

2010-09-09 Thread Alan Mintz
-philes or pylon-philes out there that has stuff on the web somewhere, too. The one that I found in England wasn't very precise, though. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

2010-09-08 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-09-08 01:37, Erik Johansson wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2010-09-04 09:12, Erik Johansson wrote: I would like to tag areas with apartment buildings, and small houses for a single family differently, at the moment I tag all

Re: [Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

2010-09-08 Thread Alan Mintz
POIs for the shops. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

2010-09-08 Thread Alan Mintz
I wrote: ... type=site + site=housing + housing={house|apartment|condominium|mobile_home|public_housing} ^^^ This should be housing_type, not housing. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging

Re: [Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

2010-09-08 Thread Alan Mintz
. BTW, dwell is one of only three root words in English that begin with dw :) -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] power=tower or pole?

2010-09-07 Thread Alan Mintz
strung on it, which is specified in power=line + cables=*). The number of cables per circuit is implied by the type of transmission, with the default of 3-phase high-voltage AC having space for 3 cables per circuit. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] power=tower or pole?

2010-09-07 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-09-07 10:27, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: tower_type=a_frame : http://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/power_a_frame.jpg Usually seen as the input and output interfaces of a substation. The example shows

Re: [Tagging] tagging single trees

2010-09-07 Thread Alan Mintz
. Special/historical trees could be mapped tagged historic=yes This approx 50 sq mi area of Bakersfield, CA, USA contains over 41,000 trees that were imported: node[bbox=-119.15,35.29,-119.0,35.38][natural=tree]. No other descriptive info is present. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

2010-09-07 Thread Alan Mintz
=Mrelation=194049 -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

2010-09-07 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-09-07 17:51, =?UTF-8?Q?M=E2=88=A1rtin_Koppenhoefer?= wrote: 2010/9/8 Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net: At 2010-09-04 09:12, Erik Johansson wrote: I've taken a slightly different approach. I use landuse=residential to outline the entire related area. I then add that way

Re: [Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

2010-09-07 Thread Alan Mintz
experience is that they are built more like houses/townhomes. I wouldn't be averse to adding housing_type=duplex for these. Are there tri-, quad-, etc. plexes? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Tagging] Advice on names for disused/abandoned railways?

2010-09-02 Thread Alan Mintz
sense instead of operator, too. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Street names

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Mintz
in incorporated areas, otherwise the county). I also add a FIXME tag with a note to re-check it in the future. I've been responsible for a number of sign corrections. In both cases, I add a note tag with an explanation of what I found and did. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] RFC: generator:* (for power=generator features)

2010-08-28 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-28 01:49, Tom Chance wrote: On 28 August 2010 04:30, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: Is there a plan to convert the existing data? I thought about that, but I'm not sure how to proceed. Any advice is welcome! I could, of course, just download all data tagged

Re: [Tagging] Semicolons? (was Re: RFC: generator:* (for power=generator features))

2010-08-27 Thread Alan Mintz
exists also when there are both amenity and leisure keys present, for example). Personally, I would rather see an arbitrary priority than nothing at all (the current state). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging

Re: [Tagging] RFC: generator:* (for power=generator features)

2010-08-27 Thread Alan Mintz
I would not propose both generator:output=* and generator:output:*=yes. I think it should be one or the other (probably the latter until we rationally deal with, or drop, semi-colons). Is there a plan to convert the existing data? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] craft= Proposal

2010-08-24 Thread Alan Mintz
suggest glass instead of glaziery - the latter sounds like someplace that glazes things (regardless of the definition) - gardening should be gardener in keeping with the other values that are named for the craftsman, not the craft -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] craft= Proposal

2010-08-24 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-24 01:43, Peter Körner wrote: Am 24.08.2010 10:28, schrieb Alan Mintz: At 2010-08-24 01:08, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Peter_K=F6rner?= wrote: some months ago I started a craft= proposal in my wiki user space: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MaZderMind/Key:craft My observations

Re: [Tagging] ele-key for lakes / water bodies and glaciers

2010-08-23 Thread Alan Mintz
surface. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] National Forest trail numbering

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-17 02:19, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:03:17 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: For Forest Highways (generally major paved roads): ref=FH nn (e.g. name=Angeles Crest Highway + ref=FH 61). For Forest Roads/Routes/Truck Trails: ref=FR yDxx (e.g. name=Upper Monroe Road + ref=FR

Re: [Tagging] Is cycleway:right=lane necessary on a one-way street?

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Mintz
for a one-way road with a bike lane on the left in a place where traffic keeps right. Prefix the value with opposite_ if bicycle traffic flows opposite to motor vehicle traffic. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] National Forest trail numbering

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-17 14:33, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:44:58 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2010-08-17 02:19, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:03:17 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: For Forest Highways (generally major paved roads): ref=FH nn (e.g. name=Angeles Crest Highway + ref

Re: [Tagging] Half-side turning circle?

2010-08-10 Thread Alan Mintz
considered part of the same street. I ignore them. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Fire_Hydrant

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Mintz
? There are also fire hoses which are attached to building water supplies and fan-folded inside largish glass-front metal cases inset into walls. emergency=fire_hose maybe, though I'd like something that better indicates that it is attached to a water supply, not just a hose by itself. -- Alan

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Fire_Hydrant

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-07-28 01:49, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: There are also fire hoses which are attached to building water supplies and fan-folded inside largish glass-front metal cases inset into walls. emergency=fire_hose

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Fire_Hydrant

2010-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
, there is certainly the potential to have extremely accurate maps of things (like hydrants, exits, extinguishers) that may not exist anywhere else. I'd certainly find that welcome in a bullding that's on fire. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Fire_Hydrant

2010-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
accurate maps of things (like hydrants, exits, extinguishers) that may not exist anywhere else. I'd certainly find that welcome in a building that's on fire. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Tagging] Tagging U-Turns (Was: [OSM-talk] Divided/Non-Divided Intersection)

2010-07-25 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-07-23 18:53, John Smith wrote: On 23 July 2010 23:48, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: I spend a totally unreasonable amount of time mapping turn restrictions (mostly no-u-turn) as it is, and even that is hard to justify. I was trying to say that it takes far too long

Re: [Tagging] paved=yes/no

2010-07-17 Thread Alan Mintz
has the last US tagwatch, we could do a better comparison, but there does seem to be a growing problem here. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Proposing bazaars

2010-06-06 Thread Alan Mintz
I used highway tag . Road tagging is quite confusing for us in developing nations because of the wide difference in european roads. I think highway=living_street is probably appropriate for the roads/paths through these areas. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Base transceiver station

2010-06-02 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-06-02 02:58, =?UTF-8?Q?M=E2=88=A1rtin_Koppenhoefer?= wrote: Then there are antennas, which IMHO do not fall in the tower category Except for AM broadcast towers, which are the antennas themselves. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Tagging] More tagging questions

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Mintz
the name of the school. I draw the boundary and tag it with amenity=school, name=*, etc.: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.13064lon=-117.54788zoom=17layers=B000FTF -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging

[Tagging] Scales / weigh stations

2010-05-06 Thread Alan Mintz
Periodically along US highways, there are giant scales for trucks to get a weight certificate to comply with various laws. How should these be tagged? How about: highway=motorway_link for the ramps linking to the motorway highway=scale for the scale node/area -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Alan Mintz
objects (e.g. sidewalk=yes, surface=paved, lanes=2, maxspeed=25 mph, etc.). I currently don't tag these, but it would be useful to visitors to know them. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-05-04 12:04, Phil! Gold wrote: * Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net [2010-05-04 09:47 -0700]: I generally regard fast_food as a place where you have to walk up to a counter and order your food. Even if they do bring it out to your table when ready, they will not generally come

Re: [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-04 Thread Alan Mintz
(and the same priority) so it was being rendered instead of the other more definitive tags (like amenity I think). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-03 Thread Alan Mintz
. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-04-30 Thread Alan Mintz
word, perhaps because there are many more of them than places that sell only seafood. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Ways that change names while crossing divided roadways

2010-04-26 Thread Alan Mintz
on Crystal Ave to destination. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Ways that change names while crossing divided roadways

2010-04-26 Thread Alan Mintz
- that a single node (or polygon) is more topologically accurate than 2 or 4 nodes. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-newbies] motorway _link and _junction tagging

2010-04-20 Thread Alan Mintz
north of LA, I-5 says San Francisco, but it doesn't come within 60 miles of the city./rant :) -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

[Tagging] Utility overcrossings?

2010-04-03 Thread Alan Mintz
There are bridges over freeways called utility overcrossings that contain pipelines, electrical cables, etc., but do not support any kind of foot or vehicle traffic. Any suggestions on how to tag these? Obviously bridge=yes + layer=1, but I can't find an appropriate highway= value. -- Alan

[Tagging] Banquet facilities

2010-04-03 Thread Alan Mintz
Distinct from town halls, there are privately-owned banquet/reception halls for hosting special events, like wedding receptions, meetings, etc. How should these be tagged? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging

Re: [Tagging] source:geolocation?

2010-02-23 Thread Alan Mintz
://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/* page)? I'd sure like to be able to clean up my occasional mistakes. I use these comments to keep track of my progress on a particular survey or area. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] source:geolocation?

2010-02-18 Thread Alan Mintz
of information was used from it, though there is some overlap (like using tract maps to provide exact measurements for new streets or those with unclear imagery). I have no opposition, though, to the more precise: source:location=survey;usgs_imagery + source:name=survey;image;LACA -- Alan Mintz

Re: [Tagging] ref tags and reference routes

2010-02-03 Thread Alan Mintz
the value if it is not currently signed that way. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes

2010-01-20 Thread Alan Mintz
. - sport=billiards;darts;projectile_vomiting :) - smoking=no|yes|patio - smoking:type=cigarette;cigar;pipe - cannabis=yes (bringing it back around to the subject of the thread :) ) -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging

Re: [Tagging] What's a power=station?

2010-01-19 Thread Alan Mintz
should never change the definitions of any tags? Steve ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] What's a power=station?

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Mintz
other than to turn electrical generators. Aren't these simply steam plants? I thought we were using the term power as an abbreviation of electric[al] power. How about man_made=steam_plant for these? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] Easy question: _link tags for U turn/cut throughs?

2010-01-07 Thread Alan Mintz
=motorway_link if the roads are highway=motorway). This seems consistent with the description of highway=*_link. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2009-12-22 02:07, Erik Johansson wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2009-12-21 11:01, Roy Wallace wrote: ... If you don't know where the other end of the street is, you can't use an addr:interpolation way, so it seems to me that you

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Mintz
a true picture of the range of possible addresses. This area shows the results of a survey of both pseudo-addresses (from street signs) and actual ones (from mailboxes): http://osm.org/go/TaBihQXG4- (Yes, I need to discuss/document this. I suppose this is the discuss part :) ) -- Alan Mintz

[Tagging] Admin division multi-polys

2009-11-23 Thread Alan Mintz
for the county? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging