Re: [Tagging] Snowmobile routes

Here is a Swedish version of that NY snowmobile map that uses OSM data: http://skoterleder.org/#!map/7/62.4692/17.6440 transaltes to: "snowmobile routes.org" https://github.com/skoterleder/skoterleder.org On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: >

Re: [Tagging] amenity=bicycle_repair_station

amenity=diy_tool_station bicycle=yes iceskates=yes locked=yes opening_hours=during games. I only know of one for iceskates though, can I can't remember why it wasn't made a generic tag, the current tag is a bit like subway_entrance vs entrance. On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Bryce Nesbitt

Re: [Tagging] Removal of amenity from OSM tagging

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: amenity=pub - pub=yes shop=travel_agent - travel_agent=yes office=travel_agent - travel_agent=yes So you want to replace shop=bakery by bakery=yes,

Re: [Tagging] Wood+Coastline conflict

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Torstein Ingebrigtsen Bø torstein...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some island are covered completely with wood. For these island I get a tag conflict. Since the natural tag is used for both. I have two solutions: 1. make a combined tag like natural=coastline;wood 2.

Re: [Tagging] Mapping of kids areas

Hi Dmitry I did a quick sruvey of some fast food restuarants the local Ikea, I know they all have leisure=playground outside and inside, non of these were mapped. So why haven't we mapped them as leisure=playground? On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Dmitry Kiselev dkise...@osm.me wrote: Hi

Re: [Tagging] Mapping of kids areas

Then I like kids_area when you are mapping a private playground that is closed off without direct public access, mainly because I wouldn't map them as a leisure=playground. About supervision vs. childcare, we have lots of free supervised playgrounds here which do not offer child care, and and I

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe they are sometimes tagged in another way as shop=bicycle + service:bicycle:repair=yes and service:bicycle:retail=no (see

Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: On 25 November 2014 at 13:30, althio forum althio.fo...@gmail.com wrote: I don't even know which keys are currently under use by Nominatim and other data consumers and how that could evolve in the

Re: [Tagging] New key proposal - paved=yes/no

These are more than 90% of values for surface, categorize them as paved/unpaved the rest as unpaved. surface= asphalt unpaved paved gravel ground dirt grass concrete paving_stones sand cobblestone compacted paved=yes will remove then need for parsing those last % of surface=* values, not sure

Re: [Tagging] wikidata instead of wikipedia

Yeah it's pretty easy to get wikidata data. Warning though; the data in Wikidata is not all CC0 licensed. You never know where the data came from they are not as strict about these things as OSM is. lang=en; title=OpenStreetMap; bad_title=gracefully_handle_bad_input curl

Re: [Tagging] tag man_made=campanile to be replaced with man_made=belfry?

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.comwrote: Here in Thailand we're having an extended discussion about towers that are associated with temples. I would suggest using man_made=tower in conjunction with tower:type=bell_tower for your situation. Our discussion is

Re: [Tagging] End voting bicycle=use_cycleway

I agree with Martin the voting is meaningless for this, you will have to prove that this is usefull in some way first then post the proposal again. Show us how routers should use the data and how invasive this tagging is. On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Pee Wee piewi...@gmail.com wrote: @

Re: [Tagging] How to tag babycare?

I use ramp=yes on highway=steps so you can route for strollers, but I there is not support in renderers or router for that.. :-) All those other tags are pretty universally available in Sweden, but I guess it's a good thing to map in those large amusements parks/malls. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at

Re: [Tagging] Taginfo for specific geographies

No, when I looked at the code last year there was no indication that you could do that in any easy way. The taginfo import is reported to take 10 minutes for Sweden so I guess if the box isn't that big you can always try to extract it and import it to your own taginfo db. Now when we have

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - bicycle=use_cycleway

Are you proposing tagging all ways with a parallel cycleway with bicycle=use_cycleway? Sounds like it's made for mechanical edit abuse. But if you are saying that there are roads marked with bicycle=no which really do not have such a sign, then that's different. On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:16 PM,

Re: [Tagging] tag proposal for soft play centres

It has occured to me that this seems to be more of something simliar to tourism=theme_park, yet smaller. I don't know if there is such a tag that is widespread or if it's better to use your own tag. I think it's not such a good idea to use leisure=playground + fee=yes, since it most certainly is

Re: [Tagging] Tagging camp sites within campground

I think this discussion seems a lot like the one on apartment numbers we had a while back. I couldn't find it though. On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:17 PM, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18.06.2013 05:27, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm thinking it might be time to revive this proposal:

Re: [Tagging] tagging cannons

BTW is there a tag for cannon that still go BANG now and then; historic=cannon+bang=yes? I guess fixed artillery hasn't much room in the defense of today, so it's still a historic thing. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 6/3/13 3:49 PM, René

Re: [Tagging] Historic huts

I don't know, they seems to be in pretty bad shape a lot worse than the ones depicted in the wiki. On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Am 29/mar/2013 um 09:37 schrieb Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com: I'm pointing out that this is neither

Re: [Tagging] Historic huts

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Andreas Labres l...@lab.at wrote: On 28.03.13 11:18, Erik Johansson wrote: This sounds more like an tourism attraction than a hut though If it is a tourism attraction tag it as tourism=attraction (that's what I said). But don't tag it for this reason

Re: [Tagging] Historic huts

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Andreas Labres l...@lab.at wrote: On 28.03.13 06:45, Steve Bennett wrote: tourism=attraction (to increase the chance that the historic=* actually renders as something...) Don't tag for the renderer! amenity=shelter by itself renders. Only tag it as a

Re: [Tagging] As the crow flies

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:53 PM, A.Pirard.Papou a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com wrote: maybe add the key informal=yes to the path? I do this for spontaneous ways and it is also documented in the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:informal And the other suggestions, many thanks, sorry for

Re: [Tagging] As the crow flies

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/22 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com I'm not entirely sure I understood your question, but you shouldn't map non-ways. Routers could be developed that route through non-ways, if there is no cliff or

Re: [Tagging] Using key:operator to contain building management organization

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:58 AM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: In particular for business properties, the property or building manager name and contact information is often available on a sign on the building's exterior. In this case I've used the _operator_ key to contain this

Re: [Tagging] bicycle-no on motorways

. /Erik Johansson ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Kids use a sled downhill

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: No word for it in English (en-gb), to my knowledge. Locally we'd refer to the slope by the bridge or going up to Rayleigh Park. As some of us were doing yesterday :o) Thanks all for the wonderfull

[Tagging] Kids use a sled downhill

I've spent every winter since ~2008 wondering what you call a Pulka hill in english, so basically a hill that kids use to go fast with a sled. People have been using: piste:type=sled So a pulka is something like this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rodeln_01.jpg And a Pulka hill is

Re: [Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: We have an xapi that lets you selectively pull data for just what you're interested in. This is not a discussion for tagging, sorry for brining it up. Interesting; about disused:*, I use this for big things that seems to

Re: [Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:17 AM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: There is a fast food franchise site which is closed for renovation in my vicinity. Two questions: * Would you support or recommend tagging a transient state like 'closed for renovation'? * If one were to indicate temporary

Re: [Tagging] New relation type=provides_feature

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Markus Lindholm markus.lindh...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 December 2012 18:41, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Markus Lindholm markus.lindh...@gmail.com wrote: Created a page on the wiki for this proposal https

Re: [Tagging] New relation type=provides_feature

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Markus Lindholm markus.lindh...@gmail.com wrote: Created a page on the wiki for this proposal https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Provides_feature What purpose does the role=entrance have when the node/way is going to be tagged

Re: [Tagging] How to solve the problem with relation overload?

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Martin Vonwald imagic@gmail.com wrote: Hi! After reading all the responses I have to conclude that we don't really have a perfect solution right now. I guess the best would be a cleanup of the relations: on ways where more than one (or two) Or remove all

Re: [Tagging] Bicycle room in a hotel

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com wrote: Any established way to tag a hotel that has a lockable bicycle room for guests? Would service:bicycle:parking=yes be appropriate? This would be in line with other bicycle services the hotel may provide, like

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/16 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com: You have to divide the road each time there is not a full line on the road, ad you should put a restriction where those roads meet that restricts U-turns. What is the

Re: [Tagging] Carriageway divider

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 26/08/2012 08:42, Markus Lindholm wrote: Also, no one has offered any other solution to the routing issue. The divider tag has been proposed, but I think it has been demonstrated not to work, as routing decision are

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] First bona fide mini-roundabout spotted

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 13:30 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Nathan Mills nat...@nwacg.net wrote: So this is not/should not be a mini_roundabout? It seems a little silly to call it anything

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012/3/27 Johan Jönsson joha...@goteborg.cc: I will make my point clearer. It isn´t the houses with adresses that will be tagged, it is the Reference_point itself. Indeed in the current scheme of things, addr:reference_point=* should be part of the node where the adress is, in the same way

Re: [Tagging] A leisure tag for bathe

2012/3/11 Johan Jönsson joha...@goteborg.cc: I made a try to do go through some examples to see how it worked. They are at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Johan_J%C3%B6nsson/Workspace what I can see, it looks like it is only the open-air public nature bath locations that really lack

Re: [Tagging] gym as an amenity value

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 18:16, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 08/03/2012 16:54, Clifford Snow wrote: I do not see gym listed as a value for the tag amenity.  I would like to see it as a recognized key value for amenity.  Taginfo, http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/amenity

Re: [Tagging] gym as an amenity value

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:04, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 18:16, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 08/03/2012 16:54, Clifford Snow wrote: I do not see gym listed as a value for the tag amenity.  I would like to see it as a recognized key value

Re: [Tagging] unfinished railway of historic importance

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 08:04, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I've run into the same argument with people tagging construction sites for various kinds of buildings. I always maintained that the object in question is primarily a construction site, and the fact that a hotel or museum is

Re: [Tagging] Mapping as two ways or one, u-turns

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 13:03, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Markus Lindholm markus.lindh...@gmail.com wrote: There was a proposal like that https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Divider that has been abandoned. Not sure of the reason.

[Tagging] Mapping as two ways or one, u-turns

There is nothing separating this road yet it is mapped as two ways: http://osm.org/go/0bCzcBhNM--?m http://goo.gl/KLTpu (Streetview) This is done for routers. Imagine you want to go from the marker to number 117, as it is mapped today the router will know that you can't go back on the same

Re: [Tagging] Amenity swimming_pool (was Amenity parking)

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 23:56, Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/1/11 Ben Johnson tangarar...@gmail.com: For a public access pool (eg run by a local government authority, or even a private operator who's main business is the swimming pool) usually charge an entry fee

[Tagging] Amenity parking

I tag all parking spaces as amenity=parking, even though you have to rent a place by the month. I'm guessing this is wrong? But this is how most people do it. -- /emj ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Amenity parking

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 19:58, Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com wrote: I think that a space that you rent as an open-air garage on a monthly basis, cannot be considered an amenity car parking. If you put these on the map you are really creating confusion for the map users (= car drivers). I

Re: [Tagging] Amenity parking

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 21:48, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: it says A default amenity=parking means a free public parking lot on surface. So it's as coherent as a wiki should be.. :-) And makes me think that there will be lots of bad data.. actually this is a recent wiki

Re: [Tagging] Amenity parking

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 23:51, Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.comwrote: 2012/1/11 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2012/1/11 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com: I will gladly change my amenity=parking to what ever you decide. Does access=private work? The parking lots aren't

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Coffee Roasting

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 13:12, Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com wrote: ... and what about the bigger roasters, that do not sell their products to the consumer, but you can smell them from miles downwind. They are factories, I suppose, but what is the tag? land_use=industrial and then the name

Re: [Tagging] power=tower enhancement

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 21:12, Nick Austin nick.w.aus...@gmail.com wrote: 3) Where three cables meet one of two of them may come up a riser and it's impossible to tell which is the supply cable and which is leading to a destination. 4) When underground cables fail they are often abandoned and

Re: [Tagging] Explain sport=multi

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 05:01, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: I would use it for sports facilities not dedicated to specific sports. So, to play devil's advocate: why bother with a sports=* tag at all

[Tagging] Explain sport=multi

sport=multi is very well used but have no description in the wiki. Is there anyone that uses this tag? For some reason I get the feeling this is at least when I see it used as a shorthand for multiple values on a sport key e.g. sport=multi instead of: sport=soccer;basketball;curling

Re: [Tagging] Explain sport=multi

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 13:53, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Erik Johansson wrote: sport=multi is very well used but have no description in the wiki. Is there anyone that uses this tag? For some reason I get the feeling this is at least when I see it used as a shorthand

Re: [Tagging] Wheelchair ramp

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 20:34, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 02/12/2011 04:31, Josh Doe wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com  wrote: 2011/12/1 Martijn van Exelm...@rtijn.org: Is there a specific tag for a wheelchair ramp that

Re: [Tagging] Announcing: website key integrity checking

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 07:18, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: KeepRight, at http://keepright.ipax.at/ now validates website tags on ways and nodes. The script loads each page and performs a fuzzy match... a restaurant for example needs to match on name, phone number or address (any

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - entrance=*

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:28 AM, André Riedel riedel.an...@gmail.com wrote: As the creator of the proposal I do not like your proposed key/value entrance=public_transport. The tag should show the importance of an

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - entrance=*

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:18 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: In the case of a subway station, this will mean that the station's area will need to underlay other mapped objects, and the mapper will need to map the access tunnels as well as the station proper. Burrr!

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - entrance=*

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:00 PM, André Riedel riedel.an...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/10/14 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com: If can't even tag *entrances* to a subway with this tag I see little use for it. Could either of you perhaps expand a bit  about what you mean. You can tag the entrance

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - entrance=*

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru wrote: Hi. The proposal for marking building entrances with entrance=* tags was discussed a year and a half ago, but didn't really go anywhere: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/entrance An hour ago there was

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - entrance=*

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvi...@helsinki.fi wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Erik Johansson wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru wrote: aren't we better of without building=entrance? I really hope that DWG can be kept out

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - entrance=*

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvi...@helsinki.fi wrote: But that's still besides my point which is that deprication should be handled properly instead of giving those hints for DWG to not interfere on mass removal even before anything is official. FYI, I'm not against

Re: [Tagging] Wide steps

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: Any suggestions as to how to represent some steps... These steps aren't that unusual I guess, but they aren't a staircase. They form the edges of a piazza-like platform, running most of the way around it. There are

Re: [Tagging] lanes tag dispute

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Currently user Alv is trying to redefine the lanes tag to say that it must include all turn lanes: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:lanesaction=history I've had this discussion before 2007 and I've

Re: [Tagging] lanes tag dispute

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/18/2011 8:33 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, lanes from the very beginning were to indicate all lanes of the road. Opposed to this was the common practice, not to split an highway because of a short lane for

Re: [Tagging] Prevoting: New_barrier_types

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:37 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Folk, I rediscovered an old proposal which is extending the set of barrier values. Please comment now on this, before we can eventually vote to get this to a more definite status:

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - childcare

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:14 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/8 Flaimo fla...@gmail.com: The biggest issue I see is that this feature seems already be covered by the social facility feature: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Social_facility Have a look at the

Re: [Tagging] RFC: Directional Flow

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/1/2011 5:59 PM, Paul Norman wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/directional Presumably JOSM would treat this like oneway, in that it will prompt when reversing a way? There are lots of

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Metropolis

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: Or take the Sucre, the capitol of Bolivien (193k people) and compare to Santa Cruz de la Sierra (biggest city of the country) with 1.1m people. Funnily enough many people in Bolivia count La Paz (about 2m) as the

Re: [Tagging] Karting...

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:03 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 January 2011 23:52, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely with a k. I actually tagged this sport recently, I took a Did I really need to say british english? cart with a k is american english.

Re: [Tagging] Groups of islands, how to tag?

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Willi wil...@gmx.de wrote: 2) If the answer is 'use a relation', have I done it properly, and if so, why isn't Mapnik rendering the name properly? 2) If and how a feature is rendered is up to the renderer. The mapper can't and imho shouldn't try to control

Re: [Tagging] How to tag a (main) entrance to a large feature?

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: I don't know if it's legal to park here and walk around the gate into the park, but assume for the sake of argument that it is. How do we tell the router to instead use the main entrance to the south?  In this case, the way in

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

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 of them with  landuse=residential. I need

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

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Pierre-Alain Dorange pdora...@mac.com wrote: M?rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: And AFAIK it's not a good idea to translate every value like you do it here. The translations/languages should only apply to names, not on classes. If your

Re: [Tagging] tagging single trees

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:14 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Many people are tagging single trees, and usually use natural=tree for this. Now there are some voices on the German ML that say, natural=tree is reserved for special trees, and can therefore not be used for

[Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

Hi I would like to tag areas with apartment buildings, and small houses for a single family differently, at the moment I tag all of them with landuse=residential. I need good terminology in english to tag them. This is from swedish wikipedia:

Re: [Tagging] Playground tag proposal - voting

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:02 AM, antony.king antony.k...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Hi all, We've been slowly mulling over the proposed playground extensions for the last couple of months, and I hope that we've covered all the ground that needs to be covered by now. Could those that care to

Re: [Tagging] Playground tag proposal - voting

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:02 AM, antony.king antony.k...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Hi all, We've been slowly mulling over the proposed playground extensions for the last couple of months, And you did a very good job, I've always wondered what to call those hanging roundabouts myself.

Re: [Tagging] Playground tag proposal - voting

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com [2010-05-14 18:29 +0200]: If you tag highway=footway with bike=yes then you don't make it exclusively for bikes. So if you tag a playground with baby=yes shouldn't that just mean

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote: That is what I like about it - when all I can find out about an area is that is green and lies in between buildings, yard is an appropriately vague

Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:48 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2010 01:24, Stephen Gower socks-openstreetmap@earth.li wrote: Those calling for shop=fish rather than shop=fishmonger - what would you use for the pet fish shop? How many pet shops would there be that

Re: [Tagging] How To Tag Coastlines That Are Also Cliffs?

probably wouldn't want to take them to a cliff-edge site. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 30

Re: [Tagging] How To Tag Coastlines That Are Also Cliffs?

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,  I'm working on an area of coastline made up of cliffs and beaches.   There are many sections where the cliffs drop directly into the ocean and it seems logical to me that the coastline and the cliff should be

[Tagging] Entrances..

Wouldn't it be great if railway=subway_entrance was rendering, and if we had a generic scheme to tag entrances for different stuff. I've used building=entrance, but I need to tag railway=station_entrance, train=door, highway=bus_station_entrance etc. etc. How do I solve this in a better way?

Re: [Tagging] Beaches

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Friday 09 April 2010 09:03:03 John Smith wrote: Although that brings up another issue about how coastlines are legally defined as being at the mean low tide mark Actually this is completely irrelevant. In OSM the

Re: [Tagging] Tagging an old bus route

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: On 24/12/2009 01:13, Arlindo Pereira wrote: Hi there, I mapped a bus route that is integrated to the subway line (uses the same ticket) [1]. However, this route will be no more, because we've built

[Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

Hi I've slowly started using addr:housenumbers, I'm not really interested in doing it according to the way the addr:* scheme work atm though.. Because of the amount of work to enter data in that scheme. Here are the things that I believe is different from the addr:* scheme.. 1. I use

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/21 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Then why don't you use place=locality, name=45-29 if that's all you want. Thanks

Re: [Tagging] The current problem with tagging

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/19 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com: I'd say that 95% of the mappers are interested in what the renderings show, and that is also in the mapfeatures-list. I agree though that in the case you are looking

Re: [Tagging] The current problem with tagging

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote: 2009/10/19 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: The problem currently seams to be that there are 3 different places within the wiki that things can be documented. Do you mean, Proposed/* pages, mapfeatures page and