Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/21 Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com: The sign carries the name of this area. It is sitting in the middle of a short section of split carriageway residential road indicating that you are now entering the Sharingbrook neighborhood. I would say that includes the road. Yes, I'd also see

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-22 Thread Dave F.
On 17/01/2012 15:41, Jo wrote: For what it's worth. When I start rendering/printing maps based on OSM, I think it's extremely ugly if the landuse is not 'connected' to the roads, i.e. that the landuse uses separate parallel ways with a small space in between for its definition. That would be

[Tagging] Tagging Inland Marinas, Ports, Docks and Basins

2012-01-22 Thread Mike Valiant
I'm fairly new to OSM but I am interested in adding the data on and around inland waterways in the UK as I have a boat and find that the detail on Bing and Google maps are very poor for showing how to get to local amenities on foot from a waterway. I am thoroughly confused however how best

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Inland Marinas, Ports, Docks and Basins

2012-01-22 Thread Malcolm Herring
I use waterway=dock, leisure=marina Take a look at my two local marinas on the Ripon Canal: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.12314lon=-1.50001zoom=16layers=M ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-22 Thread Jo
2012/1/22 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com On 17/01/2012 15:41, Jo wrote: For what it's worth. When I start rendering/printing maps based on OSM, I think it's extremely ugly if the landuse is not 'connected' to the roads, i.e. that the landuse uses separate parallel ways with a small space in

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Inland Marinas, Ports, Docks and Basins

2012-01-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/22 Mike Valiant mike_vali...@hotmail.com: Potlatch offers an icon for tagging marinas but the tag it applies is leisure=marina which according to the wiki should be used to cover the full extent of facilities associated with a marina including any land-based services. +1, I'd also tag

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: So much for your ground truth, eh? [...] Obviously you know nothing about this specific case, and should not be making bogus suggestions about tagging. Could we calm this down a bit, please? Thank you. Richard tagging@ admin -- View this message in context: