[Tagging] road side

2013-08-18 Thread André Pirard
Hi, There are many wiki articles mentioning the road side and tagging what's on it, e. g.parking. But I couldn't find how to tag a plain road side itself. It is not part of the roadway (chaussée) but it's part of the public highway (voie publique). Often in g

[Tagging] alley=green_alley

2013-08-18 Thread Guillaume Pratte
Hello, I am writing about a new proposed tag, alley=green_alley, and would like to have comments on the new tag. A green alley is a service alley that a group of local residents embellish with vegetation, such as trees, vines and flowers. Montreal has more than a hundred green alleys that are

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-18 Thread Christian Müller
>On 16.08.2013 19:05, Masi Master wrote: >> Hmm, I'm not sure that boundary is the right tag. Isn't it a border, and >> not an area? > Boundaries describe an area but you are right that they are not really > boundaries, especially if the border lines are not clearly defined The term boundary doe

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-18 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-08-17 16:47, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: Maybe we should try a completely different approach. We could draw a way along the approximate center line of the feature and tag it with name=*, topo_feature=mountain_range|ridge|valley|... A renderer that wants to display the name should draw it alon

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-18 Thread Volker Schmidt
At the risk that this is mapping for the renderer, but what Wolfgang proposes is exactly how it is done on traditional paper maps. It gives you the possibility to label some loosely defined entity, by creating some labelling along a non visible way. However, there is a serious complication in this,

Re: [Tagging] Power poles & tower : power vs man_made

2013-08-18 Thread François Lacombe
Hi, Power transmission refinement proposal have been updated with new values for man_made=*. No deprecation for power=* values. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Power_transmission_refinement More info on Talk. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Power_t

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-18 Thread Yuri D'Elia
On 08/17/2013 05:47 PM, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > * fly [130817 17:13]: >> On 16.08.2013 19:05, Masi Master wrote: >>> Hmm, I'm not sure that boundary is the right tag. Isn't it a border, and >>> not an area? > >> Boundaries describe an area but you are right that they are not really >> boundaries

Re: [Tagging] Comments of the Reuse proposal (was: Tradeoff)

2013-08-18 Thread Janko Mihelić
Dana nedjelja, 18. kolovoza 2013., korisnik Wuzzy je napisao: > Am Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:32:19 -0700 > schrieb Bryce Nesbitt : > > I do not see how one could know wheather the list is complete. > This is the case with all highways that don't have the oneway tag. Are they two-way or is it not mapped?