[Tagging] Date formatting proposal

2010-11-10 Thread Laurence Penney
I'm posting here a link to a proposal for date formatting that I just added to the start_date wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:start_date The motivator was the discovery of many tag values of unfeasible heterogeneity in start_date. Taginfo reports 18313 usages (2814 distinct),

[Tagging] landuse for arboretum

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Welty
i'm currently doing the boundaries for the Pine Hollow Arboretum south of Albany NY. none of the current landuse/natural tags seem quite appropriate. landuse=forest and natural= wood are closest, but i'd hesitate to use either without a subtype tag indicating that it's specifically an

Re: [Tagging] landuse for arboretum

2010-11-10 Thread Craig Wallace
On 10/11/2010 22:01, Richard Welty wrote: i'm currently doing the boundaries for the Pine Hollow Arboretum south of Albany NY. none of the current landuse/natural tags seem quite appropriate. landuse=forest and natural= wood are closest, but i'd hesitate to use either without a subtype tag

Re: [Tagging] Date formatting proposal

2010-11-10 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, November 11, 2010 04:56, Laurence Penney wrote: I'm posting here a link to a proposal for date formatting that I just added to the start_date wiki page: snip Comments welcome! Please follow up either here or on the Discussion page on the wiki. IMHO the right answer is ISO8601:

Re: [Tagging] landuse for arboretum

2010-11-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 November 2010 08:27, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: Wouldn't it be covered by leisure=garden? ie Place where flowers and other plants are grown in a decorative and structured manner or for scientific purposes. Its just it specifically focuses on trees, as opposed to flowers or

Re: [Tagging] landuse for arboretum

2010-11-10 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:28 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 November 2010 08:27, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: Wouldn't it be covered by leisure=garden? ie Place where flowers and other plants are grown in a decorative and structured manner or for scientific

Re: [Tagging] landuse for arboretum

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/10/10 7:28 PM, John Smith wrote: On 11 November 2010 08:27, Craig Wallacecraig...@fastmail.fm wrote: Wouldn't it be covered by leisure=garden? ie Place where flowers and other plants are grown in a decorative and structured manner or for scientific purposes. Its just it specifically

Re: [Tagging] landuse for arboretum

2010-11-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 November 2010 12:18, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I'd prefer keeping landuse values at a minimum, and using subtags where necessary. For example landuse=residential something=apartments, not landuse=apartments. Would landuse=conservation work for an arboretum? +1