Huh. And here in Australia (well, at least amongst the people I know) the
difference between a hike and any other form of walking is strictly
whether it's more than one day. A daywalk is, well, a day or less, and a
hike is two or more days.
But that doesn't cause me any concerns using
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote:
And tags for other mine entrance types?
Would it not be better to have
man_made=mine_entrance
type=adit etc
I'm a native speaker of English and I only came across the word adit
relatively recently. To me it seems obscure
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:24 PM, bulwersator bulwersa...@zoho.com wrote:
With mountain ranges there would be a major problem where node should be
placed. Carpathian Mountains cover 190 000 km² - good luck with edit wars
where node should be placed.
It'd be a way, not a node. And maybe there
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
the question should be: how to map a mountain range, as it seems we can't
represent these kind of features (very big, blurry borders, not mappable in
high zoom levels) well in our data model. That's the main
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:26:55 Steve Bennett wrote:Yes please! I just added
some hiking trails and had a named spur[1] that I
wanted to record. I used place=locality, but it seems wrong for the same
reasons you give
Hi all,
My cycletouring map, http://cycletour.org, has been slowly morphing into
a general topographic map[1]. One thing that's missing, though, is names
for topographic features like mountain ranges, spurs, and general areas.
Looking at
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:09 AM, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hey
I wonder if it is useful to tag bicycle=dismount on ways.
At least in Germany there is no official traffic sign despite of the
existence of some.
You are allowed to push your bike on every footway/pedestrian plus
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Peter Wendorff
wendo...@uni-paderborn.dewrote:
I didn't read the documentation for the ranger station tag, but from my
understanding of language (which is often in fact used for tagging in
the real osm world) a ranger station does not have to be a visitor
Could this have been less anglo-centric with
amenity=official_park_police_museum_information_permit_center
or
amenity=official_park_visitor_services
building=yes
rather than
amenity=ranger_station
building=yes
Hmm, amenity=ranger_station is kind of gross - it's so specific
Primarily a horse trail (not so good for cycling or walking): highway=bridleway
Primarily a hiking trail: highway=path
Primarily a mountain biking trail: highway=path, mtb=yes (maybe foot=no)
Primarily a normal bike path: highway=cycleway, foot=yes
(And one hundred other opinions. :))
Adding
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
This leads to a situation where a mapper is expected to, as he or she walks
the streets, update every object in the database with yep, this is still
there, I walked past it right now. Because just as a toilet could fall
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
A telephone that is already tagged as functional would not normally be
re-tagged as functional just to say yes, it still is. This means that the
operational_status:date tag is superfluous, since it will always be the
date
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Andrew Chadwick (lists)
a.t.chadwick+li...@gmail.com wrote:
iii. We should not in general be mapping features which are no
longer physically relevant. Demolished items by their very nature are
not relevant, and are potentially not verifiable. OSM a map of the
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Christopher Hoess caho...@gmail.com wrote:
conflict-prevention measure. Demoting cantilever into that key, for
instance, makes it impossible to express both cantilever and truss
simultaneously, which presents a problem. Now, I've realized that
bridge=covered is
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
I don't think non-programmers realise how easy it actually is to cope with
tag variations, especially now that our tools are so sophisticated. For
renderers, the standard is osm2pgsql+Mapnik/Tilemill: Carto makes it
Belatedly following up. I've updated the wiki
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway_stations) with my
understanding. Further changes of course welcome.
Steve
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
All of these exist in taginfo, and have at least 10 hits
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
Disadvantages
- tag clashes, particularly name= - is this the name of the bike
path, or of the former train line?
Use relations!
(did I really say that?)
Well, yeah, use relations
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
a) If the trail meanders a little from side to side (where the old
railway would have just gone straight), I match the way to the trail
and trust that the semantics of this used to be a railway remain
intact.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
I would tend to keep it separate. Ideally, once it is a cycleway, it is
a cycleway, and no longer an abandoned rail line. However I have learned
that the abandoned rail lines should not be removed - they magically regrow,
so I
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:33 AM, André Pirard a.pirard.pa...@gmail.comwrote:
From OSM-talk-be, with best regards. I put the questions before the
replies ;-)
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:31 PM, André Pirard a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 2013-04-13 23:02, Marc Gemis wrote :
... [
Hi,
My view (I'll try to be concise).
Being able to map both abstractions (like a schematic route) and
physical details is a real problem. We need to be able to do both. The
problem is not unique to rail. Use cases I've thought of:
- roads (the road network, vs the individual bits of tarmac)
-
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote:
We all know don't tag for the renderer mantra, repeating it is
pointless.
Or at least repeat it with the appropriate nuances: Don't use
semantically incorrect tags to achieve a short term goal based on the
current
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
i'm thinking both areas and nodes, with tagging that looks something like
this:
aeroway=helipad
name=Fred's LZ
access=no
emergency=yes
surface=grass
does this seem reasonable?
Seems reasonable to me, and
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:14 AM, St Niklaas st.nikl...@live.nl wrote:
Since the hut is situated in Australia, why name it Alpine hut ? I always
thought the Alps to be a European mountain range. In rural uninhabited areas
there will be shelters like it all over the world.
Yeah, that's a bit
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
looking at the tags maybe
historic=wilderness_hut would be better (according to a proposal and
the current wiki state, tourism=alpine_hut is for places where you can
get food and accomodation, while
Hi all,
Just wondering how best to tag the historic alpine huts we have in
the mountains of southeast Australia. Some basic properties:
- usually fully enclosed (4 walls and a roof) although not necessarily
weatherproof
- usually have fireplaces
- sometimes in good enough condition to sleep in
Hi Dave,
It sounds essentially like a sidewalk - the only distinction being
that it's not raised above the road surface. So why not just use
footway=sidewalk?
The footway=lane tag sounds nice, but it sounds like such a rare
occurrence that it will never get much rendering/routing support.
Maybe
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote:
Let me try to clarify this.
In case there are 2 companies stopping at a particular station, they both
might have different properties for that stop: e.g. the names, reference
numbers and zones.
So the zone might depend
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Ronnie Soak
chaoschaos0...@googlemail.com wrote:
Fortunately there is no such thing as regional trams :)
I learned very early on that there is no such thing as 'no such thing' in
OSM.
There are quite a few regional trams here in Germany alone:
... in
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
If you would prefer to use something generic referring to public
transport it would be better to use something like
public_transport_zone=* instead of just zone (but I'd prefer the
approach proposed by Steve and
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote:
Why is zone ambiguous on a bus_stop ? Or any more ambiguous than name ?
The latter is also used for so many different things.
These are deep semantic philosophy questions :) I'd point out that
renderers can naively render
Hi all,
I don't see any wiki documentation on public transport zones: that
is, how to tag that station X is in zone 3, station Y is in zone 2,
for systems where the price of a ticket depends on the zones
travelled.
For example, in Melbourne, there are two zones. Some train stations
are in zone
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
Tag operator:wikidata=Q38076 much better than operator=McDonalds ?!
Are you all so disconnected from real contributors ?
In addition to, not instead of. operator:wikidata=* is computable.
Martin wrote:
What is the relation
Hi Balaitous,
I think trying to classify paths using a type or grade is the
wrong approach. The problem you're trying to solve is a real one:
trying to distinguish important trails from less important ones. So
why not just use that terminology:
importance=5 (most important trails, probably a GR
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Peter Wendorff
wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote:
But where's the border? In the following examples let all these facilities
serve food and drinks.
- an event location that has daily concerts and opens only for these events.
- an event location that has daily
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote:
I feel dirty every time I do that, they are usually tagged as
surface=mud.. :-) Basically I map them if there really is a path
there and it seems usefull, even though it's clearly not a designated
path.
There
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com wrote:
It happens often on mountain hiking routes. You have a signpost with the
red-white sign of the Alpine Club that indicates the direction that you have
to take across a meadow, for example. On the other side you have to
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:29 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
Footpath, not footpad. A footpad is a type of robber. If I saw a path
marked as highway=footpad, it would suggest that the path is through a
high-crime area, and you are likely to be mugged.
Hmm, it must be a
Hi Jo,
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote:
pad is Dutch for path. (It also means toad in Dutch, but that is, of course,
unrelated)
In English I only knew pad as something to jot on. Like a notepad.
Maybe you should add those other meanings to Wiktionary.org,
Good
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
I have had a quick look around Melbourne's motorway entrances on
streetview and all I have looked at have a sign like this
http://goo.gl/maps/0hC6c.
Please can you point out one that does allow cyclists?
Western
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Around my area in the UK a user is presently adding bicycle=no to all
motorways. There was a discussion a while back whether it that tag was
implied for motorways. If I remember, it was claimed there were some places
(not
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Jonathan Bennett jonobenn...@gmail.com wrote:
There was this discussion on talk-gb recently:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2013-January/014376.html
Yeah, that's actually what prompted this discussion - I was pointed
there by Andy Allan when I
All of these exist in taginfo, and have at least 10 hits:
railway:historic=station_site (376)
railway:historic=station (188)
historic:railway=station (230)
historic=station (10)
historic=railway_station (37)
historic=station_site (65)
disused:railway=station (223)
disused=station (64)
(And of
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Дмитрий Киселев
dmitry.v.kise...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't like leisure=resort because in such case we will have
leisure inside leisure in case of swimmingpools or pitch inside
resort.
IMHO, that is of absolutely no concern. There's no rule against
key=tag1
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
By consumer, we all think about renderer (which is in my knowledge
the only consumer looking for bridges in OSM atm). If you keep the
bridge tag on the multiple highways, it is duplicating the
information. And you don't fix the
Hi,
A few problems with the current approach:
1) When several things pass over the same bridge (eg,
highway=secondary, highway=cycleway and highway=footway; or even just
two independent lanes), renderers currently draw multiple bridges.
2) In areas where structures (buildings, paved areas, piers,
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Balgofil balgo...@gmx.net wrote:
So one solution that was pointed out in the thread is to tag the
Schutzstreifen with cycleway=shared_lane because of the description
in the wiki. I then pointed out, that in the UK there is a similar
situation, but no solution
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote:
How would you connect POIs that have no address?
Janko
Logically, you would make the connection through some kind of permanent
ID - not literally an address. I believe there have been various
discussions about
It sounds more like a water taxi. I'm not sure if that's a widely used term
in Europe, but they exist on some rivers here - you call up, it comes and
gets you. Not normally for bikes, but that still.
Steve
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote:
I
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.comwrote:
I think 'state school' is more common. I don't think any English speaker
would say 'government school'.
https://www.google.com/search?q=government+school+site%3A.au
I think the most neutral terms here (Australia)
Hi,
With the exception of pre-schools, aren't most schools defined by the
year group, rather than age? Around a here, a primary school is Prep to
Grade 6, and high school is Year 7 to Year 12. The actual ranges of kids
varies a bit - some skip years, some repeat. I can't see much use for
coding
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Michael S mich...@elfu.de wrote:
I think tagging areas with piste:type is more for downhill piste.
Interesting - according to the wiki (key:piste:type):
piste:type=nordic (way only, not area)
A nordic/cross country ski trail (also see #Style or kind of
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Michael S mich...@elfu.de wrote:
I wonder if it is the right way to tag this trail with higway=track, because
a user which wants to use the map for non-skiing purposes may think there is
a track where one can walk on, which is not the case.
Sounds a lot like
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
I'd like to hear from others - is sports_centre the usual tag for such
establishments and if so, should we maybe downgrade the rendering to z16?
I use leisure=sports_centre for things like bowls clubs, cricket
clubs,
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
Bad example. power=station is a mess because we have one tag with
different interpretations/meanings. Here, it's the opposite : we have
several tags for the same meaning. Consolidate the wiki, the presets
and the database makes
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.com wrote:
The language of OSM should be precise. If it's not then people start
inventing tags that have similar, but imprecise meanings, which is
exactly what has happened here.
There's nothing more precise about 'potable'
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
As I understand it, NE2 was looking for a tagging scheme that would allow
for searches to find trails on a railway grade. Searching for rail trails
The use case is literally to find flattish bike paths? Searching for
rail
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Masi Master masi-mas...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
Some month ago I tried to start a proposal for rail-trails:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/rail_trail
I startet it with 'rail_trail=yes', but on talk-page some are against this,
because
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote:
So? The wiki is the place for documenting how YOU map, not how other
people SHOULD map. The only thing you SHOULDN'T do in the wiki is
change the description of how other people map.
C'mon. Clearly that's not true. The
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:27 PM, SomeoneElse
li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
Well, it's to document standards, not to create them. If that's what
you meant by establish then +1 to you too.
The biggest problem the wiki has is that in some quarters editing it seems
to have become an end in
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Martin Vonwald imagic@gmail.com wrote:
That's exactly what I was thinking about. Any chance this will find
its way into JOSM any time soon?
Potlatch2 and JOSM are completely separate codebases, written in
different languages (Flex/ActionScript vs Java). So,
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
I am not aware of a plugin, but you can draw a way with 2 nodes
(diameter) and hit SHIFT+O, this will create a circle (you can set
the default node amount for the circle in advanced preferences). You'd
then tag
The problems with this tag are the same with most tags. The history
goes something like:
1) The original creator has a very specific real-world object in mind:
painted roundabout patterns on intersections in their local area
2) Other people in the local area recognise this real-world concept
and
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
One regional mapper uses cycleway=shoulder for this, but I see that as
sub-optimal, since it's primarily a shoulder, not a cycleway. It would be
like putting cycleway=sidewalk whenever there's a smooth paved sidewalk.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
It implies that the shoulder is an official cycleway, when in reality it may
be full of debris (or worse: http://flbikelaw.org/2012/03/paved-shoulder/ ).
You think it implies that because it's a cycleway=* tag? I
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
surface=rounded_cobblestone
I'd prefer to focus on the shape and therefore rounded_cobblestone,
because other aspects like historic can be expressed with additional
tags. Also not all true cobblestones are
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
not so sure about this. Currently there is really a lot of values in
surface but (as far as I know) none of them gets subtagged. Instead of
subtagging we could also keep cobblestone for sett and invent
another
Clearly the change that was made was disruptive and changes the
meaning of the 80,000 or so surface=cobblestone tags already in
existence. I have thus changed the definition back and commented out
surface=sett for the moment.
Now, some issues with introducing sett:
1) No one knows what sett
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
I ask because this sort of description is used everywhere. One might say at
the end of the road, past Sand Lake Elementary School rather than 8249
Buena Vista Woods Boulevard, but that doesn't make the former any kind
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
He is asking because a local community is maintaining such marks and
would like to locate them in OSM in addition to the route itself.
Our current proposal is to use a node tagged with:
tourism=information
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.
I also created one:
On Feb 26, 2012 7:42 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
On 02/25/12 01:23, Richard Welty wrote:
how do you tag a never-completed railway which has significant important
landmark value in the current landscape?
I think that what you are seeing is not a railway at all.
I
2012/2/27 Кирилл Zkir Бондаренко z...@zkir.ru:
Could you please express your opinion on the issue. Building=* is one of the
most used tags, and it would be nice to understand it in the same way, in
the whole OSM, even in different countries.
Interesting one. I note there is both
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
you could use abandoned_date (like start_date) and have the
before/after completion part in another tag. Multiple things (date and
status) for one key should possibly be avoided.
+1
Keep things simple for the
any thoughts or suggestions?
IMHO there is not much difference between a almost completed then
abandoned and completed then abandoned railway, from the
perspective of OSM. Either way, it's not a present day railway, yet
there are some physical features that history buffs may be interested
in
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
No. It implies some official status that leads people to remove other tags,
sometimes with mass edits.
IMHO that doesn't follow at all. If people are doing unwanted mass
edits, then we should find a way to discourage them.
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
Before we vote, shouldn't we try to clean up the proposal? E.g. there
is this sentence: Hint: If the waterway starts as a stream and
becomes larger, then use the tag of the largest waterway (e.g.
river).
Well,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
I do not agree with the whole basis of this thread.
There are no such things as approved tags, tagging is open and people are
free to use *any* tags they like.
...
Advertise your ideas and encourage acceptance. Show how
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 in
that case?
What's the difference between:
leisure=sports_centre
and
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
Now looking at routes the preferred tagging suggested in the wiki is
different:
it is suggested to tag all routes the same way, regardless if they are
signposted, existing or simply proposed, and then
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
A light rail stop, would that be a railway=tram_stop or a railway=station?
Sounds like a third option is required. Here (Melbourne, Australia)
tram stops vary from just a sign on a telephone pole to super stops
(raised
There are two pedestrian/bicycle bridges in my area that were
destroyed by a storm earlier in the year. What's the best way to tag
them? Ideally, a renderer should be able to use the information to
draw a big red X or something - there's quite a difference IMHO
between absence of bridge and there
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:43 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
Presumably, by the same location having both fuel pumps and a charging
station for electric vehicles.
As separate nodes? Is there not a way they could be combined on one node?
Steve
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
This is a general query that could apply to many organisations, but as an
example I'm going to use a tennis club to illustrate.
This club has on it's site a car park, clubhouse, a garden a few tennis
pitches. These I can
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Mario mar...@festival-animals.com wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Charging_station
It lists amenity=fuel as a combination. How would you combine
amenity=charging_station and amenity=fuel?
Steve
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
Maybe this:
amenity=car_rental
rental:truck=yes
rental:car=no
equipment that's too expensive for most home owners to just buy. a
subcategory for that under amenity=car_rental seems peculiar.
I wasn't proposing
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
You can reuse the existing entrance tags. According to the Richard Fairhurst
duck test, if it looks like a ship, is floating like a ship, it's a ship...
not a building magically floating on the water ;-)
By the same test, a
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Sander Deryckere sander...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I just don't know any gates with names, exept city gates like the
Menin gate in Ypres, but they can't be closed and I should not tag it as
barrier=gate but rather as a building. I never heard of gates that can
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
I'm interested in propsing an icon for shop=farm, for highlighting
roadside farm stands (this is a fun travel activity, as such farm stands are
often not listed in the Yellow pages or conventional maps).
My first
Sounds good to me. I'd rather a clearly defined, unambiguous, possibly
American term like splash pad than a less clear, but more British
term like water play area.
Steve
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Matt matt.ryan.willi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Zsolt Bertalan herrber...@gmail.com wrote:
Is Themed Walk better than Tourism Movement or you just accept that it's a
thing coming from the Eastern Block and adopt the term for it?
Heh...no one will ever understand what tourism_movement is meant to
mean. Let's
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Zsolt Bertalan herrber...@gmail.com wrote:
That's why we can NOT call the THING a route, trail, walk, etc. THIS would
be confusing.
trail gets used in this metaphorical way, and it's not that
confusing. Here's an example:
Hi all,
I just came across this tag in taginfo, but there's no description
in any wiki. Anyone know the story? Is this a good way to describe
hiking paths, and to distinguish well-constructed walking paths from
rough, narrow hiking trails?
Steve
___
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:51 PM, SomeoneElse
li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
highway=path, path=hiking doesn't say any more to me than
highway=footway on its own would.
The distinction is well constructed versus rough, minimal maintenance.
highway=path, path=hiking:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:14 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
what about introducing a kerb:height ? Implying heights from values
like yes, raised, normal will probably not be very reliable or
stable as this might vary from country to country and also in
different
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Mihkel Rämmel r...@hot.ee wrote:
If i'm not wrong then there seems to be no tag for shop that is specialised
in selling (and repairing) garden and forest machinery (lawnmovers,
chainsaws, trimming machines, etc.) and lightweight garden/forest tools like
saws,
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote:
All feedback is welcome.
One problem I see with these kinds of proposals is that they map very
well to a particular jurisdiction or standard, but will be very hard
to apply elsewhere. Perhaps the distinction of 3cm, =3cm, 3cm is
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't get it. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1630619/history
is the only one you've added - can you really not continue east on
Google Streetview wasn't very enlightening either - looks like a
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:23 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
glad that this seems agreed (so far). How shall we deal with this
change in practical? Simply change the wiki page? Do we need a vote
for this? Maybe ask on the local lists?
Are there any objections to simply
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:58 PM, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote:
I wonder why many people try to force the approval of a tag by fast
votes on the wiki. A tag gets approved by uses in the data and software
handling it.
I find it remarkable that after however many years of OSM's existence,
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