Re: [Tagging] usage of maxspeed:practical is described as recommended on wiki

2014-08-25 Thread Pieren
I would modify the section [1] by replacing it is recommended by it is suggested and adding at the end a note saying that a large part of the community consider these two tags -smoothness and maxspeed:practical - too subjective. Pieren (I also suspect the 12000 coming from some imports. Such

Re: [Tagging] Reproposal of tourism=aquarium

2014-08-25 Thread Andreas Goss
+1, tourism=attraction is a poor scheme from the early days, maybe we should deprecate it all together, either without alternative or in favor of a flag like attraction=yes (or level0 - level 3 etc), or tourist_attraction=* I also just see it ending up in 2x tagging everything.

Re: [Tagging] Reproposal of tourism=aquarium

2014-08-25 Thread John Packer
And I feel like most of the values would better fit with a key like amusement _ride= or amusement _ride:xxx=yes. Now that you mentioned I just remembered. There is a proposal that uses the key attraction=* for describring objects from theme parks, zoos, etc. See

Re: [Tagging] usage of maxspeed:practical is described as recommended on wiki

2014-08-25 Thread Richard Z.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:43:36AM +0200, Pieren wrote: I would modify the section [1] by replacing it is recommended by it is suggested and adding at the end a note saying that a large part of the community consider these two tags -smoothness and maxspeed:practical - too subjective. I have

Re: [Tagging] minus or underscore in attribute values?

2014-08-25 Thread Pieren
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: the space gets replaced by an underscore +1 The problem is not to have a preference between underscore and hypen but to know if our English colleagues can agree on the separator space or hyphen. Pieren

Re: [Tagging] Reproposal of tourism=aquarium

2014-08-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 25/ago/2014, alle ore 13:14, John Packer john.pack...@gmail.com ha scritto: Now that you mentioned I just remembered. There is a proposal that uses the key attraction=* for describring objects from theme parks, zoos, etc. +1 I also don't like man_made=aquarium because I'd

Re: [Tagging] usage of maxspeed:practical is described as recommended on wiki

2014-08-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:43:36AM +0200, Pieren wrote: ...adding at the end a note saying that a large part of the community consider these two tags -smoothness and maxspeed:practical - too subjective. I don't think smoothness is too subjective or anyhow comparable to maxspeed:practical

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tagging for complex junctions or traffic signals that are named

2014-08-25 Thread fly
Am 24.08.2014 13:20, schrieb Lukas Sommer: Hello everyone. In some countries (Japan, Korea…), people orient themselves in the local area using the names of road junctions or traffic signals rather then the names of streets. I have documented the current tagging practice for simple

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tagging for complex junctions or traffic signals that are named

2014-08-25 Thread Simon Poole
Am 25.08.2014 16:46, schrieb fly: . Did you have a look at the three existing proposals about complex junctions ? .. IMHO one of the nice aspects of variant 4 (using an area) is that it really doesn't collide with however the routing aspects of the junction are mapped.

Re: [Tagging] Reproposal of tourism=aquarium

2014-08-25 Thread Janko Mihelić
2014-08-25 15:53 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: I also don't like man_made=aquarium because I'd expect that to describe a single aquarium, i.e. a water filled container with fish etc. in it, while here we are discussing a structure like a zoo with footways, service

Re: [Tagging] changing wiki , changing definitions

2014-08-25 Thread Pee Wee
Just to let you know. I got a reply. The change was more a personal wish then something that was discussed. He reverted the change so everything is how it was. I also received a nice tip on how to follow changes in a wiki you're interested in. I thought it would be good to share even though it

Re: [Tagging] RENDER

2014-08-25 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-08-15 16:12, André Pirard wrote : It's a well known fact that many people complain to tag in vain because what they tag doesn't show on the map (e.g. mini-golf vs tennis pitch), because they're told to open a rendering ticket which replies that only official tags are supported, and

Re: [Tagging] RENDER

2014-08-25 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-08-20 18:07, Peter Wendorff wrote : Okay, let me get a bit more verbose. I want to get Walmarts shown on the map in a different color. Before there's a polygon with the following tags: shop=supermarket building=yes operator=WalMart addr:street=whatever addr:housenumber:42

Re: [Tagging] minus or underscore in attribute values?

2014-08-25 Thread John F. Eldredge
If the term in question is normally written as two or more words, connected by hyphens, then hyphens should be used. If the term is normally written as two or more words, separated by spaces, then the spaces should be replaced by underscores. Replacing a hyphen by an underscore changes the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tagging for complex junctions or traffic signals that are named

2014-08-25 Thread Lukas Sommer
@Simon are the names of the traffic signals/junctions actually used in addresses (and in principal would be a suitable value for addr:place in an address)? Hm, I’m not sure (I’m not familiar with the group of addr:* keys). At least they are places in the sense that they have a defined

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tagging for complex junctions or traffic signals that are named

2014-08-25 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 08/25/2014 11:09 PM, Lukas Sommer wrote: In Ivory Coast, you have addresses like “in front of the XYZ crossroad” or “from XYZ crossroad 50 m towards the big fueling station”. Rather a sort of instructions for getting somewhere than an address in the european sense. Obviously “from XYZ