Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Well... Private messages tell me that boules might be popular outside of France, so here is a translation for a more international debate... According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:sport%3Dboules a petanque pitch (leisure=pitch) is: sport=boules boules=petanque (375 nodes, 75 ways

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Dan S
2014-05-15 10:00 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: Well... Private messages tell me that boules might be popular outside of France, so here is a translation for a more international debate... According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:sport%3Dboules a petanque pitch

[Tagging] Large, multilane road tagging question

2014-05-15 Thread John Willis
I have mapped some complicated intersections using links to represent turn lanes and other options in very large intersections. The links are connected exactly where they would logically connect one road to the other for each direction. Recently, I have been using Apple's turn by turn

Re: [Tagging] Large, multilane road tagging question

2014-05-15 Thread John Willis
Oops, forgot the link. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=36.40776mlon=139.32700#map=19/36.40776/139.32700 Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2014, at 6:14 PM, John Willis jo...@mac.com wrote: I have mapped some complicated intersections using links to represent turn lanes and other options

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 2:51 GMT+02:00 Fernando Trebien fernando.treb...@gmail.com: And some of these relations (though far from the top of the list) are not assigned an admin_centre role, even though the node exists. btw.: The current definition for administrative relations says that admin_centre should

Re: [Tagging] Large, multilane road tagging question

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 11:14 GMT+02:00 John Willis jo...@mac.com: I have mapped some complicated intersections using links to represent turn lanes and other options in very large intersections. The links are connected exactly where they would logically connect one road to the other for each direction.

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 11:07 GMT+02:00 Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com: Much better to standardise on the chaining approach i.e. boules=* this was also discussed on talk-it (and I think talk-de) in the past: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-it/2013-October/038240.html the wiki advocates for

[Tagging] Making TagInfo more useful

2014-05-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
It's very disappointing to see this minor feature rewuest: https://github.com/joto/taginfo/issues/47 summarily closed. Can anyone suggest a work-around or alternative, please? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Pieren
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: btw.: The current definition for administrative relations says that admin_centre should be used one or no time in the relation, but what if there is more than one admin_centre, e.g. entities where the

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Pieren
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: type is far too vague - it doesn't namespace at all, so it doesn't make it definite if it's a type of boules, a type of pitch, etc. The english wiki says, and I concur, Key:type should be avoided:

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 13:09 GMT+02:00 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: Why not. But the definition shall be clear : it's only the administrative(s) centre(s) place(s) to be linked. The risk if we don't specify a limit is that contributors will use it to link all places within the boundary (making a substitute

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread nounours77
Much better to standardise on the chaining approach i.e. boules=* this was also discussed on talk-it (and I think talk-de) in the past: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-it/2013-October/038240.html the wiki advocates for boules=* on the tag page:

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 13:43 GMT+02:00 nounours77 kuessemondtaegl...@gmail.com: Current usage is not very intense (80 times), and the top-level approach sport=bocce for the Italian variant is higher still: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=sport%3Dbocc* Not sure to understand you. (there are

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Fernando Trebien
Interesting. So it is in fact a rendered-related issue. Since you've pointed out exactly where the problem is in the code, wouldn't it be better to just submit a fix and standardize the mapping practice on capital=[lowest admin_level of related boundary relations]? AFAIK this should only affect

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread John Packer
(because of current mapnik rules capital=yes should be preferred over capital=2, as the style sheet only takes account of capital=yes or not yes: *https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/project.mml

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Matthijs Melissen
It is currently used in states to indicate where to place the node of the state name, because the administrative centre of a state tends to be the same as it's capital city administrative centre. (example of the label role: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/539668890) Not necessarily though.

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 11:00 +0200, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Well... Private messages tell me that boules might be popular outside of France, so here is a translation for a more international debate... According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:sport%3Dboules a petanque pitch

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread nounours77
Am 15.05.2014 um 14:00 schrieb tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org: Indeed this is what you can also find reflected in the current usage: 6 291 *sport* http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/sport *bowls* http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/sport=bowls boules=bowls - 0 So should we then go

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread John Packer
Sorry, I meant the adminstrative centre of the state's capital city It is currently used in states to indicate where to place the node of the state name, because the administrative centre of a state tends to be the same as *the state's *capital city administrative centre. 2014-05-15 9:23

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Pieren
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: Some more strange cases: We could create an additional role (e.g. capital) when the admin_centre is not the capital (and only in this case to avoid unnecessary duplicates). Pieren

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 15/05/2014 14:43, nounours77 wrote: bowls=bowls | petanque | bocce | whatever One could argue that locale=c would lead us toward using 'bowls' but on the other hand even the English-language Wikipedia article for bocce mentions that it is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Richard Welty
On 5/15/14 8:57 AM, Pieren wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: Some more strange cases: We could create an additional role (e.g. capital) when the admin_centre is not the capital (and only in this case to avoid unnecessary duplicates).

Re: [Tagging] Large, multilane road tagging question

2014-05-15 Thread fly
Am 15.05.2014 11:18, schrieb John Willis: Oops, forgot the link. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=36.40776mlon=139.32700#map=19/36.40776/139.32700 And you did hijack another thread. Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2014, at 6:14 PM, John Willis jo...@mac.com wrote: I have mapped some

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread fly
Am 15.05.2014 15:01, schrieb Jean-Marc Liotier: On 15/05/2014 14:43, nounours77 wrote: bowls=bowls | petanque | bocce | whatever One could argue that locale=c would lead us toward using 'bowls' but on the other hand even the English-language Wikipedia article for bocce mentions that it is a

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread fly
Am 15.05.2014 14:57, schrieb Pieren: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: Some more strange cases: We could create an additional role (e.g. capital) when the admin_centre is not the capital (and only in this case to avoid unnecessary

Re: [Tagging] Large, multilane road tagging question

2014-05-15 Thread John Willis
If you want to map lanes you should use another tag. Is there a suggestion for a tag that would be appropriate, or is that a thing lost in proposal purgatory? I am not representing individual lanes, but choices (aka, the two through lanes are a single way).

Re: [Tagging] Large, multilane road tagging question

2014-05-15 Thread Paul Johnson
Yeah, turn:lanes=*. JOSM even has presets and rendering options available to help tag these. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:turn is pretty much The Way To Go at this point, it seems. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:40 AM, John Willis jo...@mac.com wrote: If you want to map lanes you

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Doerr
On 15/05/2014 13:23, Matthijs Melissen wrote: - The administrative centre of a region might be licated outside the region in administers. For example, the city of Częstochowa is the administrative centre of Częstochowa county, but the city is not part of the county (the county forms a ring

Re: [Tagging] Large, multilane road tagging question

2014-05-15 Thread John Willis
Umm... Isn't this merely the tagging mailing list? I was unaware that sending an email to the list was a form of hijacking in any respect. I didn't steal the subject line... Maybe I'm missing something. I will recheck the wiki re lanes. I thought I had understood the basic options, it seems

Re: [Tagging] Large, multilane road tagging question

2014-05-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:46 AM, John Willis jo...@mac.com wrote: Umm... Isn't this merely the tagging mailing list? I was unaware that sending an email to the list was a form of hijacking in any respect. I didn't steal the subject line... Maybe I'm missing something. You replied to another

Re: [Tagging] Large, multilane road tagging question

2014-05-15 Thread fly
Am 15.05.2014 16:46, schrieb John Willis: Umm... Isn't this merely the tagging mailing list? I was unaware that sending an email to the list was a form of hijacking in any respect. I didn't steal the subject line... Maybe I'm missing something. The problem is that if you do reply on a

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 15:12 GMT+02:00 Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net: We could create an additional role (e.g. capital) when the admin_centre is not the capital (and only in this case to avoid unnecessary duplicates). some definitions to keep in mind: capital - a city serving as a seat of

Re: [Tagging] Making TagInfo more useful

2014-05-15 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 15.05.2014 12:36, Andy Mabbett wrote: It's very disappointing to see this minor feature rewuest: https://github.com/joto/taginfo/issues/47 summarily closed. Can anyone suggest a work-around or alternative, please? Write the name of the tag as a level 3 or 4 headline above the box?

Re: [Tagging] Large, multilane road tagging question

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 16:40 GMT+02:00 John Willis jo...@mac.com: If you want to map lanes you should use another tag. Is there a suggestion for a tag that would be appropriate, or is that a thing lost in proposal purgatory? well, proposals are just that: suggestions. I am not aware of any proposal

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 14:43 GMT+02:00 nounours77 kuessemondtaegl...@gmail.com: Indeed this is what you can also find reflected in the current usage: 6 291 *sport* http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/sport *bowls* http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/sport=bowls boules=bowls - 0 So should we then

Re: [Tagging] Making TagInfo more useful

2014-05-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 15 May 2014 16:06, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: On 15.05.2014 12:36, Andy Mabbett wrote: It's very disappointing to see this minor feature request: https://github.com/joto/taginfo/issues/47 summarily closed. Can anyone suggest a work-around or alternative, please? Write

Re: [Tagging] Making TagInfo more useful

2014-05-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 15 May 2014 11:36, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: It's very disappointing to see this minor feature rewuest: https://github.com/joto/taginfo/issues/47 summarily closed. Can anyone suggest a work-around or alternative, please? In the interim, I've created a wrapper

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread fly
Am 15.05.2014 18:14, schrieb Jean-Marc Liotier: On 15/05/2014 17:17, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: but I wouldn't add boules=bowls to this list because it seems quite different (e.g. the pitch is grass and not sand or gravel). Instead sport=bowls is perfectly valid and used twice as much as all

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 18:14 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: I might also do it for sport=boules;type=bocce which would become sport=boules;boules=bocce. +1, there is also 1 type=boccia which might be normalized to bocce. ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 15/05/2014 18:22, fly wrote: Pretty much everyone has agreed that the type=* is being abused and that chaining sport=boules;boules=petanque is cleaner so I'm going to correct the 718 occurrences of sport=boules;type=petanque into sport=boules;boules=petanque. This would be

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread fly
Am 15.05.2014 18:24, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: 2014-05-15 18:14 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org mailto:j...@liotier.org: I might also do it for sport=boules;type=bocce which would become sport=boules;boules=bocce. +1, there is also 1 type=boccia which might

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Andreas Goss
Am 5/15/14 16:30 , schrieb fly: Regarding the original discussion I am in favour of using capital=[2-10]* if an additional tag is needed. The semicolon (;) is defined as value separator so we could have capital=4;6;8 or similar. This just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I also don't

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 18:32 GMT+02:00 Andreas Goss andi...@t-online.de: The semicolon (;) is defined as value separator so we could have capital=4;6;8 or similar. This just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I also don't see why it would be needed. You are doubling the risk of errors when it

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread John Packer
Wait a minute. As far as I understood, the key capital=* isn't supposed to simply substitute admin_level. capital=2 means this city (which the node represents) is the capital city of this country (which has admin_level=2). capital=4 means this city (which the node represents) is the capital city

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 18:30 GMT+02:00 fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com: Wikipedia makes a difference between boccia and bocce, even if it is just the italian name. the Italian wikipedia states that Boccia is Bocce for disabled people, the english WP says it is something very similar. I am no expert in

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-15 18:52 GMT+02:00 John Packer john.pack...@gmail.com: Wait a minute. As far as I understood, the key capital=* isn't supposed to simply substitute admin_level. capital=2 means this city (which the node represents) is the capital city of this country (which has admin_level=2).

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Andreas Goss
I'd see it like this: capital=2 this place is the capital of a country capital=4 this place is the capital of a region (etc.) i.e. you can see the administrative importance, but there is no notion of which entity the place is the capital. capital=2;4 doesn't make much sense then. You

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] boules=petanque vs. type=petanque

2014-05-15 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 05/15/2014 06:41 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2014-05-15 18:30 GMT+02:00 fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com mailto:lowfligh...@googlemail.com: Wikipedia makes a difference between boccia and bocce, even if it is just the italian name. the Italian wikipedia states that Boccia is

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread fly
Am 15.05.2014 18:32, schrieb Andreas Goss: Am 5/15/14 16:30 , schrieb fly: Regarding the original discussion I am in favour of using capital=[2-10]* if an additional tag is needed. I meant additional to the roles for the boundary relation above (cutted). admin_centre for 1 or more nodes

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Colin Smale
Tagging capital=* or admin_level=* on a place is IMHO not to be done lightly. It is not actually an attribute of the place at all, because if you moved the place to e.g. the middle of the Atlantic Ocean it would no longer be a capital. It is an attribute of the relationship between the place

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-15 Thread Fernando Trebien
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: It is not actually an attribute of the place at all, because if you moved the place to e.g. the middle of the Atlantic Ocean it would no longer be a capital. It is an attribute of the relationship between the place and

Re: [Tagging] Making TagInfo more useful

2014-05-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, oops, silly me, hadn't read the full thread. I see you already found a way to annoy Jochen even without my help ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] Making TagInfo more useful

2014-05-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 15 May 2014 20:56, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: summarily closed. Can you summarily do something to a single thing? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/summarily then definition 2 on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/summary -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk