Re: [Tagging] Deprecating of leisure=common and leisure=village_green

2017-12-01 Thread ralph.aytoun
The tag _leisure=common_ is used quite a lot in African villages where they have a large flat open space, ungrassed. It is used for communal gatherings, football games and markets. If you wish to deprecate the tag then what are you suggesting is the correct tag for this? >From Wiki

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk-be] how to map a fr:talus?

2017-11-24 Thread ralph.aytoun
I have had a look on the Wallonia website. If you zoom out you will see that this feature runs exactly parallel to the road to the south of it. It is man made. It would have been created at the same time as the road. It was done to raise the road to a higher level as a flood defence against the

Re: [Tagging] Feature request - nascar=*

2017-11-19 Thread ralph.aytoun
I also noticed that. In fact the example given in the proposal http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/25.45387/-80.40864 is the Homestead-Miami Speedway which hosts not just Nascar but a whole range of different events by different companies and sponsors,(IndyCar Series, Sports Car Championships

Re: [Tagging] Tagging data where position is not yet known

2017-09-10 Thread ralph.aytoun
Thank you all for your responses and the positive feedback. What you have suggested is very helpful in accommodating this extra data rather than leaving it off because it does not tick all the boxes. >From your suggestions I have opted for separate nodes for each with a >fixme=existence

[Tagging] Tagging data where position is not yet known

2017-09-03 Thread ralph.aytoun
Hi all, I am looking for comments and advice regarding this. I am working with a group of local mappers in Sierra Leone, Africa, under the name WAMM (West Africa Motorbike Mappers). They are trying to find and identify all the towns, villages, hamlets in Sierra Leone and have completed one

Re: [Tagging] English grammar and back seat drivers Re: Tagging Digest, Vol 96, Issue 3

2017-09-03 Thread ralph.aytoun
A better use would be the word retail which covers the selling of goods to the public (as in the logistics chain from Manufacturer to Distributor to Wholesaler to Retailer to consumer) Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Martin Koppenhoefer Sent: Sunday, September 3, 2017 4:49 PM To: Tag

Re: [Tagging] source tag on object <> changeset

2017-07-25 Thread ralph.aytoun
Hi marc, I am one that checks both the source and the history of changes to understand why a features was created and from where. JOSM does already have a history and can be accessed by selecting the feature then holding down the Ctrl key and pressing h. The history comes up in a separate

Re: [Tagging] dispersed settlements / scattered settlements

2017-06-17 Thread ralph.aytoun
>> A place=* does not just consist of a small built up area with it’s church, >> shop and community centre, it >>usually includes a certain amount of >> greenbelt and rural area surrounding that as well. >that's not the place=city/town/village/hamlet etc. but the administrative >territorial

Re: [Tagging] dispersed settlements / scattered settlements

2017-06-16 Thread ralph.aytoun
Sent from Mail for Windows 10 I believe that too many people are confusing the landuse=residential with the boundary=* tags. There should not be any area names, hamlet names, community names attached to a landuse tag. The landuse tag is to indicate the use of the land (residential,