Re: [Tagging] Counting lanes: include merging or turn lanes?

2010-07-05 Thread Stephen Hope
On 5 July 2010 12:21, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: I see the lanes tag being useful primarily in determining likely speed possible in making routing decisions, other factors being equal. It could also be useful in rendering. Neither would seem to sway me to add the extra lane

[Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Pulley
I'm was planning to add a church to OSM - the only problem is that the church doesn't have its own building, but rather uses a school hall. I've asked the Australian mailing list for ideas, but I thought I should ask here if anyone here has any tips or has come across a similar problem.

Re: [Tagging] Counting lanes: include merging or turn lanes?

2010-07-05 Thread Colin Smale
I have been thinking recently about how to represent special lanes in OSM. I have been working on a flexible scheme for this which I am calling lane groups. Below is my current draft...If there is any support out there I will turn it into a wiki-page and get the ball rolling. All comments are

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread Cartinus
On Monday 05 July 2010 10:51:25 Mark Pulley wrote: - add a node for amenity=place_of_worship inside the relevant   building, with note=church meets in school hall (this is my preferred   option but I'm not sure if there's a better way to tag it) I'd use this one. -- m.v.g., Cartinus

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread Martin Simon
2010/7/5 Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au: I'm was planning to add a church to OSM - the only problem is that the church doesn't have its own building, but rather uses a school hall. I've asked the Australian mailing list for ideas, but I thought I should ask here if anyone here has any tips

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 21:43, Martin Simon grenzde...@gmail.com wrote: I'd tag the school area with amenity=school and the hall with building=school_hall amenity=place_of_worship. This allows you to keep building type and function seperate. How many uses should we tag, what if it's mostly used for

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread Martin Simon
2010/7/5 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: How many uses should we tag, what if it's mostly used for basketball 5 days of the week? What about school dances? Parent/Teacher meetings? Scouts? Well, from the description, this building has been used frequently and for a very long time as a

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 21:59, Martin Simon grenzde...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many uses *you* want to tag - I want to tag the important and stable ones for now. I'm guessing most school halls would have a number of regular purposes... ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread Martin Simon
2010/7/5 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: I'm guessing most school halls would have a number of regular purposes... building=school_hall... ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/7/5 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: How many uses should we tag, what if it's mostly used for basketball 5 days of the week? What about school dances? Parent/Teacher meetings? Scouts? We should map all of them. Please invent a scheme that allows for this ;-) cheers, Martin

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 23:53, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: We should map all of them. Please invent a scheme that allows for this ;-) Seems like over kill, just like storing any bits of transient information in OSM does, but if I were to try to do something like this I'd tag the

Re: [Tagging] Jewellery shop

2010-07-05 Thread pavithran
On 4 July 2010 15:33, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: I have seen http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop=jewelry Since very few have objection with this tag . Can I ask it for rendering in osmarender ? Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri http://look-pavi.blogspot.com

Re: [Tagging] Counting lanes: include merging or turn lanes?

2010-07-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:21:36 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2010-07-04 13:41, Alan Millar wrote: How are people using the lanes tag on motorways? Do you count the on/off ramps that come and go? Generally, no. On a lot of the freeways near me, they have two main driving lanes on each