Re: [Tagging] New feature: amenity=creche

2013-11-04 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: My understanding, as a native UK English speaker, is that a nursery is somewhere that a child attends regularly, a pre-school type place. A creche is somewhere that looks after young children for occasional short-term

Re: [Tagging] New feature: amenity=creche

2013-11-04 Thread Gilbert Hangartner
Thanks Pieren! 1) keyvalue = nursery: I agree that nursery seems to match crèche. And it has no special character. This would maybe be good. I did a search for several keywords before choosing crèche, but I did not think of nursery. I'm just wondering where they are, and what they really map

Re: [Tagging] tag proposal for soft play centres

2013-11-04 Thread Dominic Hosler
Hi everyone, It has been almost two weeks and the discussion seems to have died down. How long should it be left, before initiating a vote, and how long should a vote last on the proposal? This is the relevant wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Indoor_play Thanks, Dom

Re: [Tagging] tag proposal for soft play centres

2013-11-04 Thread nounours
Hi Dom, I don't know about voting ... But I read your interesting proposal. I completely agree that indoor-playgrounds should be mapped. In Switzerland, it seems that they are normally mapped as leisure=playground and indoor=yes, see example:

Re: [Tagging] New feature: amenity=creche

2013-11-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/11/4 Gilbert Hangartner kuessemondtaegl...@gmail.com 2) difference between nursery/crèche/childcare -- vs. -- kindergarten/pre-school: * age: starting from 2 months -- vs. -- 3 years (UK), 4 years (Germany), 5 years (Switzerland) In Germany there is no such institution with the name

[Tagging] Feature proposal - Power transmission refinement - 2nd RFC

2013-11-04 Thread François Lacombe
Hi, I'm pleased to announce that a 2nd RFC period has started for the power transmission refinement. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Power_transmission_refinement Due to last Friday reject for the first version of the proposal, the work should go on and take care of many

Re: [Tagging] [Power] sub_station vs substation

2013-11-04 Thread François Lacombe
+1 fly. Issue 230 isn't asking support modification for existing features. It only ask for the support of a new one. ITO world add this support in less than 2 hours after the proposal acceptance. Just my 2 cents. *François Lacombe* francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu

Re: [Tagging] Pre-proposal: Newsagent / Kiosk / Tobacco / TIcket shop

2013-11-04 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 03.11.2013 um 20:49 schrieb Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl: Alright, so mapping Italian tobacco shops as shop=newsagent would not make sense. On the other hand, in the Netherlands there are shops that offer everything you might find in a German shop=tobacco (newspapers,

Re: [Tagging] give way and stop tag for ways

2013-11-04 Thread Tod Fitch
A fifth method might be to use forward and backward tags on the node where the sign is tagged much like one of the suggested methods for tagging traffic signals. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traffic_signal#Tag_all_incoming_ways Seems like one uniform way of tagging traffic control signs

Re: [Tagging] Pre-proposal: Newsagent / Kiosk / Tobacco / TIcket shop

2013-11-04 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 03.11.2013 um 16:40 schrieb fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com: Did you mean that a kisok does not offer any indoor place for customers but is only a counter with (covered) shelfs outdoor ? No, I meant that a kiosk is a small freestanding building, often polygonal (hexagon, octagon, etc.),

Re: [Tagging] [Power] sub_station vs substation

2013-11-04 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 3 November 2013 15:20, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote: What is the problem about supporting both tags for now ? Why is carto not supporting accepted tags ? Don't ask me... I also don't see the problem. Note that Andy, the maintainer of the CartoCSS stylesheet, hasn't commented on this

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Gambling

2013-11-04 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 03.11.2013 um 13:10 schrieb Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl: - amenity=casino: A gambling place with at least one table game. I'm not sure if requiring a table game is a good idea, IIRR in Monte Carlo you can find casinos with only slot machines, but they won't qualify (iMHO)

Re: [Tagging] give way and stop tag for ways

2013-11-04 Thread Tod Fitch
Regardless of whether or not a direction tag is considered I think the following three items should be met: 1. Should be consistent for both mapping signs and signals. At least for stop signs in the areas I drive, they seem to present the same mapping issues (location to mark, directionality of

Re: [Tagging] Proposal - RFC - man_made=lamp

2013-11-04 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 03.11.2013 um 14:52 schrieb Manuel Hohmann mhohm...@physnet.uni-hamburg.de: I propose the tag man_made=lamp for lamps, together with a number of additional tags for lamp type, light source, power and so on. Central motivations for this proposal are: Wouldn't it make more sense use the

Re: [Tagging] Pre-proposal: Newsagent / Kiosk / Tobacco / TIcket shop

2013-11-04 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 03.11.2013 um 17:25 schrieb sabas88 saba...@gmail.com: for tickets I'd like something like office=tickets (so we'll catch also the place vending tickets outside a museum). I'd prefer shop= ticket_office as the key Office is used for different objects in osm Cheers, Martin

Re: [Tagging] Pre-proposal: Newsagent / Kiosk / Tobacco / TIcket shop

2013-11-04 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013, at 08:00 AM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: Dear all, In many countries, there is a type of shop that sells most of the following: - Newspapers - Magazines - Books (but not as wide selection as a book shop) - Stationary [Stationery*] - Post cards - Bus tickets -

Re: [Tagging] give way and stop tag for ways

2013-11-04 Thread Paul Johnson
This all really sounds like a job for relations, similar to enforcement relations. On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: Regardless of whether or not a direction tag is considered I think the following three items should be met: 1. Should be consistent for

Re: [Tagging] Proposal - RFC - man_made=lamp

2013-11-04 Thread Manuel Hohmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wouldn't it make more sense use the tag light_fixture (de Leuchte)? Let me refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_fixture here. Yes, indeed I was thinking about this (or rather light_fitting, which should be UK English), which would be the