[Tagging] Tagging post-office in Sweden

2010-08-28 Thread LeSve
How should Postoffice be tagged in Sweden. The Postoffices has disapperared and is instead a small part of another shop (or Petrol station etc). Should another node be created which said postoffice or should the shop-node have another key-value telling this. /LeSve

Re: [Tagging] Tagging post-office in Sweden

2010-08-28 Thread just . stret
LeSve wrote, On 2010-08-28 09:46: How should Postoffice be tagged in Sweden. The Postoffices has disapperared and is instead a small part of another shop (or Petrol station etc). Should another node be created which said postoffice or should the shop-node have another key-value telling

Re: [Tagging] RFC: generator:* (for power=generator features)

2010-08-28 Thread Tom Chance
On 28 August 2010 04:30, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.netalan_mintz%2b...@earthlink.net wrote: Is there a plan to convert the existing data? I thought about that, but I'm not sure how to proceed. Any advice is welcome! I could, of course, just download all data tagged with the old

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sauna

2010-08-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/28 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 27 August 2010 23:34, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: why exactly do you want to convert a widely used tag (amenity=sauna, ~1000 uses) I wouldn't exactly say 1000 uses is widely used... A handful of mappers, or perhaps even a

Re: [Tagging] radio and/or tv studio?

2010-08-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/28 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 28 August 2010 03:31, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: i just found amenity=studio which will do, although i still thing office=broadcasting might be helpful to identify the business office side. If you want to be picky, count the

Re: [Tagging] radio and/or tv studio?

2010-08-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 August 2010 19:02, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: you will find offices almost everywhere: in hotels, in factories, at petrol stations, in museums, in shops/supermarkets, in schools and universities, ... You just proved my point, the number of offices is in the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sauna

2010-08-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 August 2010 18:58, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I can hardly imagine a single mapper (or even a small group) mapping more than 1000 saunas, but this is maybe due to the area I'm living in, where there are few of them. If someone had a fetish for saunas and had a GPX

Re: [Tagging] RFC: generator:* (for power=generator features)

2010-08-28 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-28 01:49, Tom Chance wrote: On 28 August 2010 04:30, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: Is there a plan to convert the existing data? I thought about that, but I'm not sure how to proceed. Any advice is welcome! I could, of course, just download all data tagged with the

Re: [Tagging] sidewalks

2010-08-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/28 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:56 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: if there is no footway, it shouldn't be tagged as such. Agreed.  But what is a footway?  The dictionary says it's a narrow way or path for pedestrians.  I don't see anything

Re: [Tagging] Non Proposed Features

2010-08-28 Thread John Smith
2010/8/28 Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de: How can we improve this process? Didn't you already ask this on one of the wiki pages? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] pool/billiards hall?

2010-08-28 Thread Simone Saviolo
I agree with using amenity=pub/bar/whatever, sports=pool. But doing a strict classification would be often hard. In my town ([ot] thanks, population-based classification of urban centres, for not calling it a city! [/ot]) there's a bowling hall, with arcade-style video games, pool and

Re: [Tagging] radio and/or tv studio?

2010-08-28 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/8/27 Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net: i just found amenity=studio which will do, although i still thing office=broadcasting might be helpful to identify the business office side. Why not amenity=studio, studio=broadcasting, broadcasting=TV? richard Ciao, Simone

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sauna

2010-08-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/28 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 28 August 2010 18:58, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I can hardly imagine a single mapper (or even a small group) mapping more than 1000 saunas, but this is maybe due to the area I'm living in, where there are few of them.

Re: [Tagging] Non Proposed Features

2010-08-28 Thread Matthias Meißer
Yes in some way but I pointed on thinks that are in my opinion the problem. There might be others that I don't see, right? You write in the wiki that it is unable to repair it and spot on a working group. I think this will be a nice idea even if it might result in a discussion if this

Re: [Tagging] sidewalks

2010-08-28 Thread SomeoneElse
On 28/08/2010 10:51, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: You can actually see informal footways/paths quite well in aerial imagery. If they are there and you have good resolution images. Usually the grass is aside then, because grass doesn't grow where people (or animals) walk. It disappears even if it

Re: [Tagging] Tagging post-office in Sweden

2010-08-28 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 28 August 2010 10:16, just.st...@lesve.org wrote: LeSve wrote, On 2010-08-28 09:46: How should Postoffice be tagged in Sweden. The Postoffices has disapperared and is instead a small part of another shop (or Petrol station etc). Should another node be created which said postoffice or

Re: [Tagging] sidewalks

2010-08-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
In other words, you are saving that the ground shows many paths, made by both humans and cows. If the only place where the ground was trodden down enough to be bare or sparse were along the footpath, you would have the situation that M∡rtin described. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re:

[Tagging] natural protection tag new proposal comments

2010-08-28 Thread Xan
Hi, I made a new proposal of natural_protection tag (section new proposal of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Key:natural_protection). Can you comment it? I'm still a newbee so before making a definitive proposed page, I want to know your opinion. Thanks in advance,

[Tagging] How do you map handicapped parking? (and other questions)

2010-08-28 Thread Nathan Edgars II
There doesn't seem to be a tag on the wiki for either handicapped parking spots in a larger lot or a dedicated handicapped lot. Also a few more minor questions (all from the local park: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.407939lon=-81.489194zoom=18layers=M): Is there a better way to map