Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-03 Thread Johan Jönsson
LM_1 writes: > > What about this: > Let's have fully qualified hierarchical names, something like > landcover=vegetation:herbaceous:grass, ... > Mappers would understandably not be willing to do it all, therefore > any generic qualifications could be omited if the rest is unambiguous. ... > So

Re: [Tagging] Ferry routes, what's the correct approach?

2012-08-03 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 19:00 +, Janko Mihelić wrote: > Ferries are a bit like motorways with tolls, but I don't know what is > used on motorways around the world. Fee=yes? > 'barrier=toll booth' is used for motorway tolls, and for access to ferry terminals, these work fine. The problem I was f

Re: [Tagging] Ferry routes, what's the correct approach?

2012-08-03 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Janko Mihelić wrote: > Ferries are a bit like motorways with tolls, but I don't know what is used > on motorways around the world. Fee=yes? Washington State has the largest ferry system in the US. Check out http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/ for details. Some rou

Re: [Tagging] Ferry routes, what's the correct approach?

2012-08-03 Thread Janko Mihelić
Ferries are a bit like motorways with tolls, but I don't know what is used on motorways around the world. Fee=yes? Janko ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-03 Thread Martin Vonwald
Am 03.08.2012 um 15:33 schrieb Johan Jönsson : > It is the third value in the series trees/shrubs/?? I am looking for. In this context I would like to ask all native speakers: what is a shrub? What is a bush (not George)? What is used in common language? Thanks in advance! _

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-03 Thread LM_1
What about this: Let's have fully qualified hierarchical names, something like landcover=vegetation:herbaceous:grass, landcover=herbaceous:herbs or landcover=vegetation:trees:coniferous That woudld allow precise specification as well as "something green grows there". Mappers would understandably no

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-03 Thread Martin Vonwald
Please forget my last mail - I'm too tired to read. I would prefer landcover=grass over landcover=herbawhatwasit. Simply because I doubt that many mappers would remember the latter. Martin Am 03.08.2012 um 14:42 schrieb Colin Smale : > On 03/08/2012 13:36, Martin Vonwald wrote: >> To cut a l

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-03 Thread Johan Jönsson
> On 03/08/2012 12:36, Martin Vonwald wrote: > But on the other hand those "subkeys" are harder for mappers. That's > why we will not see landcover=vegetation + vegetation=trees and > similar constructs. Such hierarchical tags have the disadvantage that > mappers often have to use more than one ta

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-03 Thread Colin Smale
On 03/08/2012 13:36, Martin Vonwald wrote: To cut a long story short: landcover=herbs would also be fine, IF we would expect that those tag will be often used and the difference to landcover=grass is substantial enough. As I doubt that I would recommend landcover=grass and grass=herbs. Grass is

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-03 Thread Martin Vonwald
2012/8/3 Johan Jönsson : > > To make my question more clear: > IF we where to use landcover, what would then the value for grasslands and > lawns be? > > =herbaceous > =herbs > =grass I would use: landcover=grass and (if necessary) grass=herbs In my opinion it would be easier and more robust for

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-03 Thread Johan Jönsson
To make my question more clear: IF we where to use landcover, what would then the value for grasslands and lawns be? =herbaceous =herbs =grass In another context, guess the third: landcover=trees/shrubs/??? The description would be something like "Areas where the vegetation is dominated by gra