Re: [Tagging] Utility corridor mapping

2013-09-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/9/4 Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com utilities=underground ( no overhead utilities are present ) utilities=overhead (overhead wires are visible) utilities=none(it is known that utilities don't run in this corridor, even underground) -1, IMHO you should only tag

Re: [Tagging] Utility corridor mapping

2013-09-04 Thread Jo
Utilities seems a bit vague to me. Over here water, gas, telephony and sewage are always underground, mostly under the sidewalk and sewage under the street. Electricity usually is, except in rural areas. Cable distribution follows the 'façades' of the houses and then there is the cable of the

Re: [Tagging] Utility corridor mapping

2013-09-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: To see how it feels, I've started to tag my local area with: utilities=underground In areas where I know that all overhead wires have been undergrounded. A complete tag list might be: utilities=underground ( no overhead utilities are

Re: [Tagging] Ace Hardware

2013-09-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/9/4 Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com But I'll admit that it would be better to if we could agree on using either name, brand or operator there is some level of consensus (at least on a national level) how to deal with gas stations, all three keys have their particular meaning, using

Re: [Tagging] funny tags: turning_radius

2013-09-04 Thread Ronnie Soak
2013/8/30 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, On 29.08.2013 16:07, André Pirard wrote: This tag was created for the specific needs of logging [to tell which timbering vehicle can pass a bend] More background here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Round_wood_transport_in_the_forest

Re: [Tagging] Utility corridor mapping

2013-09-04 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:35 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.comwrote: You might also want to have utilities=underground_and_overhead as a possible value, to handle cases where some utility cables, but not all, have been placed underground. Or, would this be handled by having two separate