[Tagging] accordion gate & rolling double-track gate

2015-09-24 Thread johnw
I’m wondering if there is a barrier=* tag for these two types of gates. They are the two most popular ones in Japan, but are not are not listed in barrier=*. I would normally tag these as just barrier=gate, but as there are *so many* kinds of gates in barrier=* , I’m wondering if there is a

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

2015-09-24 Thread Hubert
Hi. I always tag it “sidewalk:right:width=*” I place sidewalk in front, because clusters all relevant sidewalk tags in a single namespace. Yours Hubert From: Warin [mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 24. September 2015 11:19 To: tagging@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Tagging] accordion gate & rolling double-track gate

2015-09-24 Thread Christian Pietzsch
Difficult question. I would tag second gate mentioned like this: barrier=gate; gate:type=rolling (http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/gate%3Atype#values). Isn't used very often but sounds valid for me. (maybe with automatic=yes/no) The first one is more complicated. There doesn't seem to be any

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

2015-09-24 Thread Christian Pietzsch
I'm still having my problems with separate sidewalks if they are attached directly to the street. Most (all) routing engines will make bigger detours to the next intersection instead of simply crossing the street. For example (

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

2015-09-24 Thread Christian Pietzsch
This form isn't used very often. taginfo shows that these things all get into suffixes.sidewalk:right:width and sidewalk:left:width are often used together to indicate that the left sidewalk and the right are not equal. ( http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/sidewalk%3Aright%3Awidth#combinations)

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

2015-09-24 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:06:28 +0200 Volker Schmidt wrote: > How to tag the > width of the sidewalks when using the tagging scheme: > highway=... > sidewalk=both|left|right > > There are few uses of > sidewalk:width= > and just

Re: [Tagging] accordion gate & rolling double-track gate

2015-09-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-09-24 12:04 GMT+02:00 Christian Pietzsch : > I would tag second gate mentioned like this: barrier=gate; > gate:type=rolling ( > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/gate%3Atype#values). Isn't used > very often but sounds valid for me. (maybe with

[Tagging] sidewalk width

2015-09-24 Thread Volker Schmidt
How to tag the width of the sidewalks when using the tagging scheme: highway=... sidewalk=both|left|right There are few uses of sidewalk:width= and just a handful of width:sidewalk= Any other ways of tagging without drawing separate ways for

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread johnw
> On Sep 24, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote: > > Here in Thailand there are many nationalities beside English speakers that > make use of these offices, among them are large numbers of Burmese, > Cambodians, Germans, and Japanese. here in Japan it would be

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

2015-09-24 Thread Warin
On 24/09/2015 7:06 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote: How to tag the width of the sidewalks when using the tagging scheme: highway=... sidewalk=both|left|right There are few uses of sidewalk:width= and just a handful of width:sidewalk= Any other ways of tagging without drawing separate ways for

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Warin
On 24/09/2015 2:25 PM, Warin wrote: On 24/09/2015 12:56 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote: I too have wanted to raise the level of consciousness about these offices. There are many in Thailand but their tagging is not uniform and that makes them difficult to find. amenity=immigration_office might be

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

2015-09-24 Thread Christian Pietzsch
There are quite a few uses of sidewalk:(direction):width.( http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=sidewalk) I think that's the best practice so far. 2015-09-24 11:06 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt : > How to tag the width of > the

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

2015-09-24 Thread Volker Schmidt
@Christian In many countries you cannot cross a road just anywhere from one sidewalk to the other, often you are obliged to use the nearest zebra crossing or cross near intersections. At least in theory.

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

2015-09-24 Thread Volker Schmidt
@Mateusz With so detailed tagging I would simply mark sidewalk as a separate > highway=footway + footway=sidewalk. > In principle I agree with you, but if I tag a separate footway I also have to tag all possible connections with the adjacent street, i.e. points where pedetians can cross the road

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 24.09.2015 08:18, Warin wrote: > I have 'synced' the wiki page > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dgovernment with the Russian > source page. > It now reflects the use of the sub tag government= as documented on the > Russian page. Why does the yellow box say that the English

Re: [Tagging] Handle with care

2015-09-24 Thread Kotya Karapetyan
Hi André, all, Shall we discuss an "object_warning" tag? To begin with, it will simply contain information. Editors can also choose to show it when the tagged object is about to be changed. Kind regards, Kotya On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:53 AM, André Pirard wrote:

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

2015-09-24 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:18:43 +0200 Volker Schmidt wrote: > and in my area deal with badly aligned, imported, buildings > that leave no space between road and building). That's why in many > cases the sidewalk= ... tag is easier to handle In case of malformed import making

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Warin
On 25/09/2015 6:33 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: Thank you for all the help with this topic everyone. On 9/24/2015 6:25 AM, Warin wrote: Perhaps office=government government=immigration ? or government:immigration=yes would be better where the office functions are combined..

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 25.09.2015 um 00:21 schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > > Personally I think the wiki pages should say which language page is the > 'primary' page. > That would help those who want to check or comment on the page. I believe the primary page should always be

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Blake Girardot
Thank you for all the help with this topic everyone. On 9/24/2015 6:25 AM, Warin wrote: Perhaps office=government government=immigration ? or government:immigration=yes would be better where the office functions are combined.. government:passport=yes government:vehicle_licence=yes etc...

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Warin
On 25/09/2015 12:09 AM, Friedrich Volkmann wrote: On 24.09.2015 08:18, Warin wrote: I have 'synced' the wiki page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dgovernment with the Russian source page. It now reflects the use of the sub tag government= as documented on the Russian page. Why