Re: [Tagging] Understanding links

2014-09-23 Thread Satoshi IIDA
If you got any communication loss during the contact, I'll support it. But I think he/she is able to understand English. I saw he/she many time in wiki translation and other OSM related software translation acts. 2014-09-23 2:25 GMT+09:00 fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com: Am 22.09.2014 15:06,

Re: [Tagging] Understanding links

2014-09-23 Thread Lukas Sommer
As I understand it, the local access roads would be an unclassified road with bollards or a kind of barrier at each end, and with trunk links, (or one way unclassified roads?) that lead onto the actual new trunk road. There is not much documentation on the wiki. The only thing that I found was a

Re: [Tagging] Understanding links

2014-09-23 Thread johnw
On Sep 23, 2014, at 7:39 PM, Lukas Sommer sommer...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it, the local access roads would be an unclassified road with bollards or a kind of barrier at each end, and with trunk links, (or one way unclassified roads?) that lead onto the actual new trunk road.

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

2014-09-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-09-23 1:12 GMT+02:00 David Bannon dban...@internode.on.net: Zoom in a bit at OSM and pop out the Key, it shows how unsurfaced roads are rendered. But you don't see that on the map. Current model does not work ! We can continue to argue is OK anyway or we can fix it. Choose. here we

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

2014-09-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Bannon wrote: The truth is the paved/unpaved state of a road is being widely ignored or incorrectly interpreted. The map at osm.org illustrates my point, perhaps as well as an XKCD cartoon :-) Yep, absolutely. But the way to fix that is to get the map at osm.org to render surfaces,

Re: [Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

2014-09-23 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Mishari Muqbil mish...@mishari.net wrote: I've also been advised that Thailand is not the only country with this legal concept and that as we should be mindful and cautious of this. But in OSM we map what's on the ground. Create a new tag like

Re: [Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

2014-09-23 Thread Guttorm Flatabø
Hi Mishari, 2014-09-23 16:56 GMT+02:00 Mishari Muqbil mish...@mishari.net: I had an interesting conversation with legal today. I'm assuming legal is a department at your workplace. Even if it's the truth, it's criminal libel if you state it as a brothel. There's an interesting saying

Re: [Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

2014-09-23 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
2014-09-23 16:56 GMT+02:00 Mishari Muqbil mish...@mishari.net: Even if it's the truth, it's criminal libel if you state it as a brothel. There's an interesting saying which you can Google that goes the greater the truth, the greater the libel. Libel is defined as false statement that harms

Re: [Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

2014-09-23 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 23 Sep 2014 16:29, Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com wrote: Are you serious that in Thailand they have something like criminal libel defined as any statement that harms the reputation of somebody/something? In the Netherlands, this is the case as well. It is, basically, a criminal

Re: [Tagging] Understanding links

2014-09-23 Thread Lukas Sommer
There is not much documentation on the wiki. The only thing that I found was a statement at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice that says that highway=service is wrong, but everything else is okay. highway=service service=alley sounds really good to me - parallel to

Re: [Tagging] Understanding links

2014-09-23 Thread johnw
Sometimes you have frontage roads who mostly don’t give local access. Example http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=39.47925mlon=-0.45146#map=17/39.47925/-0.45146 Here the mapper decided to use “tertiary”. The road has mostly through-traffic. I would not make a strict rule for all cases, but

Re: [Tagging] Forest vs Wood

2014-09-23 Thread Greg Troxel
Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl writes: On 20 August 2014 18:45, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Wood: Woodland with no forestry Forest: Managed woodland or woodland plantation. How do you define forestry or 'managing' forests? Most forests in the Netherlands are

Re: [Tagging] Unification of google-plus links

2014-09-23 Thread Greg Troxel
I don't think we should have tags for particular proprietary services. Instead, a URL to various pages can be given in the url tag, with ; if necessary. pgpejuxb2fe5M.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

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

2014-09-23 Thread Warin
On 24/09/2014 1:27 AM, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:43:07 +0200 From: Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools tagging@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Tagging] New key proposal - paved=yes/no Message-ID: