Re: [Tagging] Suggestions for the correct tagging of Field borders

2014-07-14 Thread Clifford Snow
Wouldn't adding attributes solve the problem you described? I.e. field border=* On Jul 14, 2014 2:11 PM, "Dudley Ibbett" wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to work out exactly how a generic "field" would be mapped using > this new tag. I am assuming you would have a way that marks the field > boundary a

Re: [Tagging] Suggestions for the correct tagging of Field borders

2014-07-14 Thread Dudley Ibbett
Hi I'm trying to work out exactly how a generic "field" would be mapped using this new tag. I am assuming you would have a way that marks the field boundary and in many cases this would be tagged with the barrier=fence/wall/hedge. This is what much or my mapping currently consists of. What

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] The biggest violation of OpenStreetMap, ever.

2014-07-14 Thread Christian Quest
2014-07-14 16:40 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer : > > 2014-07-14 12:44 GMT+02:00 Christian Quest : > > On the first zoom levels, I'm using the capital=* tag to select the >> country capitals, then sorting them with decreasing population. >> It is a very small number of objects, that can easily be m

Re: [Tagging] Future proposal - RFC - amenity=dormitory

2014-07-14 Thread Jesse B. Crawford
In US English we tend to say "dorm hall" or "dorm building," which seems to be consistent with Steve's thoughts. Perhaps a less confusing way to mark this feature would be using the term "residence area" and "residence hall," but I don't know how much of an Americanism these terms are. --- Jes

Re: [Tagging] Future proposal - RFC - amenity=dormitory

2014-07-14 Thread Steve Doerr
On 12/07/2014 15:25, Dudley Ibbett wrote: Hi I was going to say that from a UK English perspective I have never seen dormitory used in this way. However, in the context of a dictionary definition the proposal seems to relate to the definition with regard to a suburb "A small town or suburb

Re: [Tagging] Future proposal - RFC - amenity=dormitory

2014-07-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-07-12 23:06 GMT+02:00 Dave Swarthout : > Same here in the U.S. Usage of the word dormitory generally applies to a > single building, a student residence on or near a college campus. +1, still this tag might have its sense to map a dormitory, as building=dormitory doesn't convey this inform

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - cemetery=sector

2014-07-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
thank you for setting this up. There are some comments on the talk-page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Cemetery_sector cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - cemetery=sector

2014-07-14 Thread John Yani
Cemeteries are usually divided into sectors to quickly find a given grave. Here's a proposal to define this feature: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Cemetery_sector ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.open