[Tagging] [Power] sub_station vs substation

2013-11-02 Thread François Lacombe
Hi, As mentionned in the issue #230 on the main openstreetmap rendering github, the number of occurences of power=sub_station increased during the last 15 days. https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/230#issuecomment-27632715 The new value power=substation was introduced not

Re: [Tagging] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/11/2 Pieren > > btw, IMHO secondary are more similar to primaries than they are to > > tertiaries, as both are long range connections, while tertiaries aren't > > generally long range connections. > > Brazilians could also decide that they don't need "trunk" because they > don't have somethi

Re: [Tagging] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Pieren
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > btw, IMHO secondary are more similar to primaries than they are to > tertiaries, as both are long range connections, while tertiaries aren't > generally long range connections. Brazilians could also decide that they don't need "trunk"

Re: [Tagging] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Fernando Trebien
Well, if it doesn't matter, perhaps we should abolish classifications in OSM. *prepares for rotten tomatoes to be thrown at self* :P It does matter if you think of application usability. What's a digital map for without a renderer or a router app? (And many others I don't recall now.) Both make as

Re: [Tagging] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/11/2 Fernando Trebien > Hm I may have misread about Germany then. > > The mais problem we discussed here in Brazil is getting everyone to > agree with some vague subjective sense of importance, specially when > deciding between two somewhat similar classifications (such as between > secondar

Re: [Tagging] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Fernando Trebien
Hm I may have misread about Germany then. The mais problem we discussed here in Brazil is getting everyone to agree with some vague subjective sense of importance, specially when deciding between two somewhat similar classifications (such as between secondary and tertiary). On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at

[Tagging] Mechanical edit - Voting - Musical instrument

2013-11-02 Thread Matthijs Melissen
[Send again due to incorrect title and incorrect link] Dear all, I propose to automatically change all objects tagged with shop=musical_instruments into shop=musical_instrument. Please let me know whether you support this proposal by voting on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits

[Tagging] Mechanical edit - RFC - Musical instrument

2013-11-02 Thread Matthijs Melissen
Dear all, I propose to automatically change all objects tagged with shop=musical_instruments into shop=musical_instrument. Please let me know whether you support this proposal by voting on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/musical_instruments . The rationale for this change, a

Re: [Tagging] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 02/nov/2013 um 20:43 schrieb Fernando Trebien : > > I know that in Germany and in Argentina roads are being classified > based primarily on administration level (national, regional, city, > etc.). in Germany they are not, don't know about Argentinia. The basic principle is the creation o

Re: [Tagging] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Fernando Trebien
I know that in Germany and in Argentina roads are being classified based primarily on administration level (national, regional, city, etc.). Classifying like this probably works well when the entire road system is well maintained. In Brazil, however, we had tons of discussions on how to do it and

Re: [Tagging] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Chris Hill
On 02/11/13 18:47, Jonathan wrote: This question is really aimed at UK roads but the same may apply to other countries. I'm not clear with the distinction of a Trunk road in the UK. The wiki suggests a trunk road is "high performance roads that don't meet the requirement for highway

[Tagging] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Jonathan
This question is really aimed at UK roads but the same may apply to other countries. I'm not clear with the distinction of a Trunk road in the UK. The wiki suggests a trunk road is "high performance roads that don't meet the requirement for highway