Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Reception Desk

2015-03-13 Thread Alex Rollin
+1 for amenity -1 for tourism +1 for reception_point (it might not be a desk, right? point=desk?) is there some JOSM/other validation issue with an amenity being inside another amenity? if so, then, I woudl hope that would be addressed..and if not, yay! or... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/

Re: [Tagging] courtyards

2015-02-06 Thread Alex Rollin
imho a courtyard is related to leisure. why for: because a courtyard matters to people with leisure time and it is a luxury of sorts. why against: perhaps a courtyard is a sequestered area/way as it is often tagger highway designated footpath as an area, an area that is a Very big way for foot tr

Re: [Tagging] Personal Keys for WikiProject, Survey Data for Import

2014-09-17 Thread Alex Rollin
rse not, so, I am new to this, and I spend a lot of time on OSM, but I really don't know where to start with scripting tracking for thousands of nodes that might get a new unique ID every other week. Where do I start? > 2014-09-18 1:43 GMT+02:00 Alex Rollin : > >> Hello, >>

[Tagging] Personal Keys for WikiProject, Survey Data for Import

2014-09-17 Thread Alex Rollin
Hello, We are surveying for local points of interest. We need to store an ID for these objects to keep track of them. I think this is called a "personal key"? Something like indonesiaheritage:ID=231892312 Is that the acceptable format for such a thing? We will then publish a page on the wiki a

Re: [Tagging] feature Proposal - RFC 2 - tourism = apartment

2014-02-16 Thread Alex Rollin
bathtub furnished -- Alex On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Dan S wrote: > 2014-02-16 8:29 GMT+00:00 Philip Barnes : > > On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 07:06 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > >> >I would prefer the plural tourism=apartments. > >> > >> > >> I prefer singular because the plural term explicit

Re: [Tagging] How to overcome lack of consensus

2013-09-19 Thread Alex Rollin
Hi, I am relatively new to OSM. I have one point to make. I am pretty sure that the persistence of traversible structures is one of the reasons that Wikipedia admins are ... effective? It seems like (as a user of Wikipedia) that there are literally thousands of people who have robots trawling a

Re: [Tagging] How to map an household goods store?

2013-09-16 Thread Alex Rollin
personally I think housewares is OK. In many cases this would (in my evaluation of English usage) go so far as to include: kitchen simple repair simple furniture basic linens I prefer the term "home" store, personally, but that is just because I like the word better. I feel that "home" is synonym

Re: [Tagging] amenity=police

2013-08-06 Thread Alex Rollin
office=government ? i was just looking at something similar with immigration offices, oft frequented by travelers. embassies, yes. in-country immigration offices, no. -- Alex On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > To move this forward I've put this in proposal draft form: >

Re: [Tagging] sports_centre

2012-07-16 Thread Alex Rollin
I have been using sport_centre for the very common facilities here in Indonesia that feature a small pitch, a pool, a building for meetings, and an indoor gym. Often there is a restaurant, a tidy front entrance with grass and trees, as well as a parking lot. I find the rendering to be a bit stran

[Tagging] Wikification of Discussions, New Types of Wiki Pages, Learning to Look at Cities from OSM (Learning from the Roundabout discussion)

2012-05-17 Thread Alex Rollin
Hi, I am really quite new to OSM and I am looking forward to a wiki page that clarifies everything about roundabouts, large, small, and quasi-roundabout-ish. I would like to learn how they are NOT traffic islands and how to tag traffic islands with curbs, as a related course of action. I am eager

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: Ojeq Stand

2012-04-30 Thread Alex Rollin
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2012-04-30 01:07, Alex Rollin wrote: >> >> OK, So i make bad (formatting and approach) proposal for tag ojeq >> stand.  It is a motorcycle taxi stand. > > > Why not first search for existing usage? Taxi stands a

[Tagging] Fwd: Ojeq Stand

2012-04-30 Thread Alex Rollin
OK, So i make bad (formatting and approach) proposal for tag ojeq stand. It is a motorcycle taxi stand. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indonesia/adaptation/ojeq_stand Help requested with proposal, please, for formatting, placement, generalization. Alex _