Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Jo
Which too schemes? I think you'd need to be more specific. As for deprecating semicolon-delimited lists. I don't think it's practical to abolish them completely, so they'll have to stay. I do agree that it makes sense to try and avoid them as much as possible, but it's simply not always

Re: [Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 22 January 2015 at 14:02, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: A shop that solely sells electronic cigarettes has been added locally. I guess this type of product will be on the increase so I think it's best to clarify unified tag, if there's ever been such a thing in OSM :-) Yes, I

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread althio althio
Hi Jo/Polyglot and list, On 22 January 2015 at 12:01, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: Which too schemes? I think you'd need to be more specific. 1. key=values;separated;by;semicolon 2. several key:subkey=*

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Marc Gemis
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:59 PM, althio althio althio.fo...@gmail.com wrote: I even find the second example more difficult to visualize. It's just worse than the first in every respect. From a mapper's point of view My little +1 for key:subkey=* New people don't know how to add new

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread Dan S
2015-01-22 6:53 GMT+00:00 Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com: It seems like the German community started some voting process on the deprecation of the associatedStreet-relation (it was on the mailing list and on the forum). Discussion is going on on the wiki

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread althio
Hi all - does anyone know what the geographic distribution of associatedStreet is like? taginfo doesn't render a map (it seems it doesn't do that for relations). This shows a map, I don't know if this is what you are looking for: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/type=associatedStreet#map

[Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread Dave F.
Hi A shop that solely sells electronic cigarettes has been added locally. I guess this type of product will be on the increase so I think it's best to clarify unified tag, if there's ever been such a thing in OSM :-) Checking Tag-info it's 8/6 in favour of electronic_cigarettes over

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-22 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 21.01.2015 08:28, Markus Lindholm wrote: Before we get carried away by a zillion relations I think we have to answer the questions as to what purpose do we want to explicitly associate an address with a POI or a building. Is it so that the data consumer can find her way to a POI? That's

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Jo
It's an actual example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/80725474 https://delijn.be/nl/haltes/halte/303059 (real time information) 121 characters... there's still some breathing room. I guess the risk of the street getting congested is higher than hitting the 255 characters limit. Jo

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-22 Thread Dmitry Kiselev
Hi Friedrich. I can't say for whole World, as for Russia we have plots of lands having addresses without buildings. They are not always dedicated to be build up with something. There is three ways, (maybe more, but i don't know for sure): 1. Large landuses as landuse=industrial may have their

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 22. Januar 2015 11:45:47 MEZ, schrieb althio althio althio.fo...@gmail.com: Please vote here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Relation:associatedStreet Is this a formal voting? It is not as formal as a proposal voting. I would like to know how the community (those who

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-22 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 22.01.2015 04:02, John F. Eldredge wrote: If you have a strictly delimited plot of land, with no house currently built upon it, but which is intended for later construction, does it have a house number? Or is the address only assigned once a building is built? When it is already intended

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Jo
Rattling on about those bus stops, I have an other example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/485938967 bus http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:bus?uselang=en-US yes highway http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway?uselang=en-US bus_stop

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread althio althio
It is not as formal as a proposal voting. I would like to know how the community (those who vote) think about associatedStreet relations. I think that in Germany the majority does not like them (anymore). I will announce a end date. This end date will be date of announcement of end of

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread althio althio
Please vote here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Relation:associatedStreet Is this a formal voting? Is there a date for start and end vote? It looks strange, hidden on a Talk:page without the usual template or RFC or call for votes on the international mailing lists. althio

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread althio althio
First point: It is good that several people invent, propose and use various schemes. Second point: At some point, unification of schemes with similar intent would be great. As usage grows, having the same kind of data treated differently is a pain for everyone, mappers, developers, maintainers

Re: [Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 22/01/2015, Andreas Goss andi...@t-online.de wrote: Using - instead of _ goes against a very established tagging practice. Only for whitespace as far as I know. So I don't see a issue here. That surprises me, but looking at a dump of Ireland (taginfo search is too coarse, so I used some

Re: [Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 22 January 2015 at 18:00, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote: Well the first page should be under proposal and it should not be listed under shop or if only under some proposal paragraph Only six shop types have been approved by the wiki/voting process: bakery, baby_care, second_hand,

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-22 Thread fly
Am 22.01.2015 um 04:02 schrieb John F. Eldredge: If you have a strictly delimited plot of land, with no house currently built upon it, but which is intended for later construction, does it have a house number? Or is the address only assigned once a building is built? In Germany the address

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread althio althio
I even find the second example more difficult to visualize. It's just worse than the first in every respect. From a mapper's point of view My little +1 for key:subkey=* In free text like this thread, several key:subkey=* may look more heavy and complicated than

Re: [Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread althio
Existing pages: value e-cigarette is referenced in the wiki. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3De-cigarette http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shop#Others The wiki page is very recent with only two contributors. I wouldn't be surprised if e-cigarette in the db was also

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread fly
Am 22.01.2015 um 18:08 schrieb Marc Gemis: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:49 PM, althio althio.fo...@gmail.com mailto:althio.fo...@gmail.com wrote: Well at least iD knows quite well about the semi-colon: Just merge two ways together and you might get access=no;yes highway=primary;path without any

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread Johan C
Good to have this discussion. From a computer expert point-of-view relations are fantastic for data integrity and to keep database size low. From an OSM point-of-view, which includes being friendly towards novice users, relations should be avoided whenever possible. And associatedStreet relations

Re: [Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread fly
Am 22.01.2015 um 19:43 schrieb Matthijs Melissen: On 22 January 2015 at 18:00, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote: Well the first page should be under proposal and it should not be listed under shop or if only under some proposal paragraph Only six shop types have been approved by the

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread fly
Am 22.01.2015 um 21:32 schrieb Tod Fitch: I've been following this and the addrN thread with a mixture of amusement and irritation. Lots of the arguments come down to how easy it is to parse using some tool or another. Or whether the problem the original poster was trying to address

Re: [Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread althio
Existing pages: value e-cigarette is referenced in the wiki. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3De-cigarette http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shop#Others On 22 January 2015 at 15:43, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Ah, As normal cigarettes are sold in multiples I didn't

Re: [Tagging] Tagging road illumination quality

2015-01-22 Thread Kytömaa Lauri
Volker Schmidt wrote: I am very cautious about any of this kind of measurement for the following reasons: 1) the results will be very difficult to standardise 2) the effort is far beyond that what a mapper can reasonably do. Oh well, I guess I'll have to write a comment here, because I recently

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 22/01/2015 14:00, althio a écrit : Hi all - does anyone know what the geographic distribution of associatedStreet is like? taginfo doesn't render a map (it seems it doesn't do that for relations). UK http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/type=associatedStreet ~9000 PL

Re: [Tagging] Feature proposal - Voting - Water tap

2015-01-22 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Kotya Karapetyan kotya.li...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, As of today, a total of 16 votes have been submitted, 11 of them are approvals. Since 2 weeks have passed and the required number of votes (15) has been reached, I have closed the voting and will proceed

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Никита
opening_hours:Mo-We 08:00-17:00 = yes opening_hours:Th-Fr 08:00-21:00 = yes would in my opinion lead to an inordinate number of subkeys. If you were reading other people messages you would probably notice that opening_hours=* tag was mentioned as minor exception to general rule *not to use

Re: [Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 22/01/2015, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote: The wiki page is very recent with only two contributors. I wouldn't be surprised if e-cigarette in the db was also contributed by no more than 1-2 mappers. I suggest contacting them to make sure that they are ok with e_cigarette, and then

Re: [Tagging] Feature proposal - Voting - Water tap

2015-01-22 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Kotya Karapetyan kotya.li...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Having said this, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that people who currently actively oppose the proposal have not participated in a 4-month discussion, where most of the current concerns were

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Никита
Using a xxx:yyy schema also requires checkboxes besides every existing value in JOSM presets. So I don't see how it is any easier for new mappers or preset creators. Problem in multiple values in value part in *key=value.* How iD should parse cuisine=mexican;japanese? This work repeated every

Re: [Tagging] Feature proposal - Voting - Water tap

2015-01-22 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Kotya Karapetyan kotya.li...@gmail.com wrote: 7. Personally, I believe drinking_water=* is a much better solution than amenity=drinking_water: 7.1) The source of drinking water (which, I fully agree, is important for a lot of users) may not be a dedicated

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Никита
Propaganda. Propaganda. Propaganda. But it's harder to get all tags in category. How would you get all the payment methods, not the exact 'ellectrico'? Why normal person need to know about all payments methods if he/she only have mastercard/ellectrico/coins? You probably never use data at all.

Re: [Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread Andreas Goss
On 1/22/15 23:13 , fly wrote: No, but it is common sence to introduce tags in proposal name space and once they are in common use accept them because of it use. Well, you can go ahead and create dozens of proposals that will go nowhere. I have completely given up on that process. It will be

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Marc Gemis
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Никита acr...@gmail.com wrote: we don't need to teach every person how to parse japanese from cuisine=mexican;japanese using f#$% regexes In my code editor I can search for complete word by ticking a checkbox, how simple is that ? It will not match

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Charles Basenga Kiyanda
On 15-01-22 01:44 PM, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Message: 3 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:08:49 +0100 From: Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools tagging@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread jgpacker
A) For which keys and/or type of data are semicolon lists pertinent? For keys that can logically have multiple values and that are not the main/defining key of the object. B) How can semicolon lists be handled better in the different editors? If you are using a tag from a preset, iD theorically

Re: [Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread Andreas Goss
Using - instead of _ goes against a very established tagging practice. Only for whitespace as far as I know. So I don't see a issue here. I would even say using _ is wrong. e_cigarette = e cigarette e-cigarette = e-cigarette The wiki page is very recent with only two contributors. I

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Marc Gemis
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:49 PM, althio althio.fo...@gmail.com wrote: New people can have problems or make mistakes and then experienced users can help and point to recommended tagging or explain good practices . Not everybody reaches out to community for help. Probably many just stop

Re: [Tagging] Electronic or 'e' cigarettes?

2015-01-22 Thread Steve Doerr
On 22/01/2015 15:22, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: On 22/01/2015, althio althio.fo...@gmail.com wrote: Existing pages: value e-cigarette is referenced in the wiki. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3De-cigarette http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shop#Others Using - instead of _ goes

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
a minor issue with semicolon separated lists: we don't have yet defined how to escape actual semicolons in values. cheers Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 22.01.2015 um 14:07 schrieb Jo winfi...@gmail.com: network DLVB;IBXL;TECB;TECC;IBXL operator De Lijn;STIB/MIVB;TEC;STIB/MIVB I'd completely refrain in this case from tagging these to one object and use relations instead.

Re: [Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

2015-01-22 Thread Никита
I cannot understand your example without illustration. Hide the internals from the end-users. We can easily hide *something*:japanese=yes *something*:korean=yes under single field *something*=*traditional semicolon presentation*, but not vice versa. I suggested plugin for JOSM that will present