[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - waterway=sanitary dump station

2015-04-09 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/waterway%3Dsanitary_dump_station This is an extension of the land based proposal, recognizing that marine and land facilities serve different users. A marine focused pumpout icon is needed to complete the proposal. _

Re: [Tagging] One if by Land, two if by Sea

2015-04-09 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Discussion about additional dump station types is underway at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:amenity%3Dsanitary_dump_station#Try_Three And on the Open Sea Map forum. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreet

Re: [Tagging] New values for entrance=

2015-04-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-04-09 15:08 GMT+02:00 John Willis : > But a hospital has the "emergency" entrance - would we want a special tag > for a hospital's emergency entrance? > > (This is often quite different from the "main" entrance) > I think we'd want to, yes. (Although you might be able to see this also from

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 09.04.2015 02:52, Warin wrote: > c) No default unit. All entries would require a declaration of the units > used. Thus this would be an incorrect entry and ignored. This is my clear favourite. If providing a default is favoured by the majority, then I won't insist on this further. However, mak

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-04-09 8:16 GMT+02:00 Lukas Sommer : > Please note that speed limits are _not_ interpreted by regions. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed states that the unit > has to be added explicitly when it’s not km/h – independent of the > region where you are mapping. > This is just a

Re: [Tagging] New values for entrance=

2015-04-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sorry, unfinished mail ... typically private shops and pubs, offices etc) to enter in case you were victim of an aggression. http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_Noteingang > Am 09.04.2015 um 13:19 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer : > > > > > >> Am 09.04.2015 um 11:22 schrieb Daniel Koć :

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread Volker Schmidt
In line with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature#Temperature_scales I would strongly suggest the defaulti unit to be degrees Celsius. There is a technical problem with the units: Celsius "°C" and "°F" have the degree symbol "°", whereas the SI unit Kelvin "K" does not. Given the difficulty of

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread Warin
On 9/04/2015 4:49 PM, Andrew Errington wrote: There is no regional default if the units are not specified. Not the default unit, but the default speed limit. Reference http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed -- Andrew On 9 April 2015 at 15:42, Warin <61sun

Re: [Tagging] New values for entrance=

2015-04-09 Thread John Willis
The most common door to be mapped is a fire door (often signed "emergency exit" in America), and some kind of escape, like access from underground to street level for a subway evacuation. Japan has a lot of elevated motorways on pillars, with noise walls, so essentially you're driving in a gi

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread Dave Swarthout
C'mon folks. Temperatures are always measured in degrees, hence it is completely unnecessary to include this hard-to-type symbol in the value. We know if it's a temperature, the value will be a certain number of degrees. As for regional differences, let's not go there. The metric system is the one

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 9 April 2015 at 01:52, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Say a mapper tags > > temperature=42 Under what circumstances would such a tag be used. How would we know that the actual temperature is not 41 or 43? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread johnw
> On Apr 9, 2015, at 9:52 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I'd like an indication of the preference for the default unit of the > temperature= value > > > Say a mapper tags > > temperature=42 > > The options are to interpret this as > a) values would be interpreted as deg

Re: [Tagging] New values for entrance=

2015-04-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 09.04.2015 um 11:22 schrieb Daniel Koć : > > 1. entrance=emergency (3318 occurrences - clear winner as of now) not sure what those mean to say though, in Germany there used to be a campaign "Noteingang" (emergency entrance), whose name is a play on words (typically you use the word No

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 14:39 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2015-04-09 2:52 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > Say a mapper tags > > temperature=42 > > The options are to interpret this as; > > a) values would be interpreted

Re: [Tagging] New values for entrance=

2015-04-09 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, johnw wrote: > My guess: I think the better word would be stairwell - an indoor or outdoor > stairway used for accessing different floors, but not part of the floor > /building itself. Often times stairwells have access limitations, as opposed > to a doorway opening inside to a

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread Tod Fitch
> On Apr 9, 2015, at 5:43 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > > This is just a suggestion in the wiki, everybody using the data will > ultimately have to decide on their own how to extrapolate missing > information. In Europe I'd probably assume km/h as default, but if I ran > across a max

[Tagging] Paintball

2015-04-09 Thread Dave F.
Hi Paintball is a sport/leisure activity where teams run around woodland shooting paint pellets at each other with rifles. There only about 300 tags so I'm guessing there must be a more popular name. Any ideas? Cheers Dave F. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus sof

Re: [Tagging] New values for entrance=

2015-04-09 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 09.04.2015 3:42, Bryce Nesbitt napisał(a): On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: what about exits? Why entrance=exit of course :-). We already have 1793 of it. =} I would rather choose one of these: 1. entrance=emergency (3318 occurrences - clear winner as of

Re: [Tagging] New values for entrance=

2015-04-09 Thread johnw
My guess: I think the better word would be stairwell - an indoor or outdoor stairway used for accessing different floors, but not part of the floor /building itself. Often times stairwells have access limitations, as opposed to a doorway opening inside to a single floor. This door and it’s stai

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 09.04.2015 um 09:47 schrieb Volker Schmidt : > > Given the difficulty of finding the degree symbol on a normal keyboard this depends on the language, on a German keyboard you get it easily. No idea about other languages besides Italian, which is "broken" also for many other symbols ;-

Re: [Tagging] Straw pole Temperature=objective default unit?

2015-04-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-04-09 2:52 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > Say a mapper tags > > temperature=42 > > The options are to interpret this as; > > a) values would be interpreted as degrees Celsius. (Similar to the width > key default.) > b) values would interpreted by region. Most of the world would be