Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
If you're drawing buildings, whether a house is terraced or not should be apparent from the geometry without any special tagging. It is obvious for humans, but not for software that will process data. ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread SomeoneElse
On 21/07/2014 00:51, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: ... but looking into WP showed that in Britain the meaning refers to the town or city residence of a member of the nobility http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobility or gentry http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentry, as opposed to their country

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 21/lug/2014 um 02:13 schrieb Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com: If you're drawing buildings, whether a house is terraced or not should be apparent from the geometry without any special tagging. -1, of course you can see that there are houses attached to another, but you can't tell

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread Volker Schmidt
Wikipedia is rather precise on the different meanings - see my earlier post with links. Volker On 21 July 2014 10:42, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: On 21/07/2014 00:51, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: ... but looking into WP showed that in Britain the meaning refers to the

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread SomeoneElse
On 21/07/2014 10:29, Volker Schmidt wrote: Wikipedia is rather precise on the different meanings - see my earlier post with links. Volker Sure - I understand that you were correctly flagging the ambiguity associated with the term, but what I was saying was that one of those three

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread Volker Schmidt
Yes, I know - I know that when you buy a townhouse in the UK it means it's terraced. My only point was that Wikipedia is a precise source of reference for this discussion (at least the English version - it's a bit problematic with the translations) On 21 July 2014 11:47, SomeoneElse

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Aah, sounds like the cycle_network proponents may have gotten overzealous, then; good catch. Could someone check history and contact mappers? On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Andy Allan a...@gravitystorm.co.uk wrote: On 20/07/14 18:29, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:17 AM,

Re: [Tagging] Center Turn Lane Tagging?

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm at a loss to remember where I saw this, though, it looked like your standard American both-way left turn lane, though it had an additional token set of orange dots down the middle. Most drivers would cross over the nearest lane to the lane adjacent to oncoming traffic to be able to see their

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-07-21 12:39 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com: Yes, I know - I know that when you buy a townhouse in the UK it means it's terraced. +1, I'd use the established tag terraced_house and not just house neither townhouse. Evventually we could have a subtag to subclass terraced

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-07-20 15:29 GMT+02:00 John Willis jo...@mac.com: So what about the rest - the landuse for the area - is my basic understanding remiss? Am I misinterpreting a basic tenent of OSM with my statement on area defined by landuse and buildings and amenities over it? Even if you disagree on

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Vending Machines: Drink Food

2014-07-21 Thread Andreas Goss
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Vending-Dinks%26Food After thinking a bit about how to handle food and drink vending machines I thought a good compromise between only having vending=food/drinks + food:/drink: or vending=tomatoes/asparagus/milk/apples... would be to have

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Vending Machines: Drink Food

2014-07-21 Thread SomeoneElse
On 21/07/2014 18:49, Andreas Goss wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Vending-Dinks%26Food (offlist) You might want to fix the typo in the page name... Cheers, Andy ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Feature proposal - Power transmission refinement - RFC 2

2014-07-21 Thread François Lacombe
Hi Gentlemen, Well, I hope you'll be fully satisfied with the last edition of the power transmission proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Power_transmission_refinement#overhead_power.3Dline Instead of introducing a brand new line:type key, I've extended the definition

[Tagging] highway=speed_camera equivalent for non-speed enforcement types

2014-07-21 Thread Ronnie Soak
I've mapped some traffic light enforcement cameras lately and stumbled across the somehow missfitting tag highway=speed_camera. It was obvioisly invented for cameras enforcing only speed limits. Now the actual enforcement can be quite flexibly tagged by the enforcement relation and technically,