Re: [Tagging] Nuclear Key

2011-04-03 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 03.04.2011 04:26, schrieb David Murn: On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 12:11 +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote: *... and I'll especially call it wiki fiddling if the currently widely used tags are removed from the wiki without even keeping a note of the old tags.* Doesnt the fact that the proposal exists,

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread David Paleino
Hello Ed, On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 22:26:22 -0400, Ed Hillsman wrote: The discussion of the sidewalk issue seems to have stopped. I added some comments in the discussion section of the wiki last week, but there have been no further comments there or here in nearly a week. I saw your comments

Re: [Tagging] RFC: Directional Flow

2011-04-03 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/4/2 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com There are lots of tags that are direction dependant: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Way_Direction_Dependent It does seem like josm handles many of those in a good way, not all by far though. there is also highway=steps which I

Re: [Tagging] landuse: illegal and illegal:yes/no

2011-04-03 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/4/2 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com Tracktype is verifiable against a visual scale: http://wiki.openstreetmcan't givap.org/wiki/Tracktypehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tracktype but as it depends much on the climate and surface material / vegatation / ground it still has to be

Re: [Tagging] RFC: Directional Flow

2011-04-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/3/2011 4:43 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/4/2 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com mailto:erjo...@gmail.com There are lots of tags that are direction dependant: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Way_Direction_Dependent It does seem like josm handles many of those

Re: [Tagging] RFC: Directional Flow

2011-04-03 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/4/3 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com There you can use incline=* to be explicit. Yes, I know, but when I started mapping back in 2/2008 there was no incline proposal, and later I found it sufficient to keep the implicit information. Nobody used to draw plans would draw steps

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi. There are two things I would like to make additions to. 1) separate or tag-scheme (the long discussion in general): I'm one of the people who think, both should be used on a case-by-case-basis. Working on a map- and routing-portal for blind people (therefore most likely a special case of

Re: [Tagging] RFC: Directional Flow

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 03.04.2011 11:52, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2011/4/3 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com mailto:nerou...@gmail.com There you can use incline=* to be explicit. Yes, I know, but when I started mapping back in 2/2008 there was no incline proposal, and later I found it sufficient to

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread Phil! Gold
* Ed Hillsman ehills...@tampabay.rr.com [2011-04-02 22:26 -0400]: With regard to routing, sidewalks on college campuses, in parks, and in cemeteries may be interior to a large area bounded by streets, and as a result some may not have an associated street to use for a name. I don't think

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/3/2011 9:38 AM, Phil! Gold wrote: * Ed Hillsmanehills...@tampabay.rr.com [2011-04-02 22:26 -0400]: Would it work to add a tag associated_street and then simply list the name of the street? For example, highway=footway, associated_street=East Fowler Avenue. This might not be a bad idea.

Re: [Tagging] Proposed Feature - Public Transport - Voting

2011-04-03 Thread Michał Borsuk
On 31.03.2011 10:41, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: Hi Voting is open for public transport proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport 1. In the provided links I can see all the street names in German. Do you have any examples of uses outside of the German

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:49:18 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 4/3/2011 9:38 AM, Phil! Gold wrote: * Ed Hillsmanehills...@tampabay.rr.com [2011-04-02 22:26 -0400]: Would it work to add a tag associated_street and then simply list the name of the street? For example, highway=footway,