Re: [Tagging] New key proposal - paved=yes/no

2014-09-23 Thread Warin
On 24/09/2014 1:27 AM, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:43:07 +0200 From: Martin Koppenhoefer To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" Subject: Re: [Tagging] New key proposal - paved=yes/no Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 2014

Re: [Tagging] Unification of google-plus links

2014-09-23 Thread Greg Troxel
I don't think we should have tags for particular proprietary services. Instead, a URL to various pages can be given in the url tag, with ; if necessary. pgpejuxb2fe5M.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org ht

Re: [Tagging] Forest vs Wood

2014-09-23 Thread Greg Troxel
Matthijs Melissen writes: > On 20 August 2014 18:45, Rob Nickerson wrote: >> Wood: Woodland with no forestry >> Forest: Managed woodland or woodland plantation. > > How do you define forestry or 'managing' forests? > > Most forests in the Netherlands are managed by Staatsbosbeheer, the > nation

Re: [Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

2014-09-23 Thread johnw
Looks like Amenity=soapland is more and more appealing. >< those libel laws... ouch. I thought the UK also had some pretty strict >libel laws too. On Sep 24, 2014, at 1:26 AM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > On 23 Sep 2014 16:29, "Mateusz Konieczny" wrote: > > Are you serious that in Thailan

Re: [Tagging] Understanding links

2014-09-23 Thread johnw
> Sometimes you have frontage roads who mostly don’t give local access. Example > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=39.47925&mlon=-0.45146#map=17/39.47925/-0.45146 > Here the mapper decided to use “tertiary”. The road has mostly > through-traffic. I would not make a strict rule for all cases,

Re: [Tagging] Understanding links

2014-09-23 Thread Lukas Sommer
> There is not much documentation on the wiki. The only thing that I found > was a statement at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice that says that > highway=service is wrong, but everything else is okay. > > > highway=service & service=alley sounds really good to me - paralle

Re: [Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

2014-09-23 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 23 Sep 2014 16:29, "Mateusz Konieczny" wrote: > Are you serious that in Thailand they have something like "criminal libel" defined as > "any statement that harms the reputation of somebody/something"? In the Netherlands, this is the case as well. It is, basically, a criminal offence to harm so

Re: [Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

2014-09-23 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
2014-09-23 16:56 GMT+02:00 Mishari Muqbil : > Even if it's the truth, it's criminal libel if you state it as a > brothel. There's an interesting saying which you can Google that goes > "the greater the truth, the greater the libel". > Libel is defined as "false statement that harms the reputation

Re: [Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

2014-09-23 Thread Guttorm Flatabø
Hi Mishari, 2014-09-23 16:56 GMT+02:00 Mishari Muqbil : > I had an interesting conversation with legal today. > I'm assuming "legal" is a department at your workplace. > Even if it's the truth, it's criminal libel if you state it as a > brothel. There's an interesting saying which you can Goog

Re: [Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

2014-09-23 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Mishari Muqbil wrote: > I've also been advised that Thailand is not the only country with this > legal concept and that as we should be mindful and cautious of this. But in OSM we map what's on the ground. Create a new tag like "amenity=brothel_even_if_it_is_not_

Re: [Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

2014-09-23 Thread Mishari Muqbil
Hi, I had an interesting conversation with legal today. Even if it's the truth, it's criminal libel if you state it as a brothel. There's an interesting saying which you can Google that goes "the greater the truth, the greater the libel". The people who will be liable under the Computer Crimes A

Re: [Tagging] New key proposal - paved=yes/no

2014-09-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Bannon wrote: > The truth is the paved/unpaved state of a road is being widely > ignored or incorrectly interpreted. The map at osm.org illustrates > my point, perhaps as well as an XKCD cartoon :-) Yep, absolutely. But the way to fix that is to get the map at osm.org to render surfaces, u

Re: [Tagging] New key proposal - paved=yes/no

2014-09-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-09-23 1:12 GMT+02:00 David Bannon : > > Zoom in a bit at OSM and pop out the Key, it shows how unsurfaced roads > are rendered. But you don't see that on the map. Current model does not > work ! We can continue to argue is OK anyway or we can fix it. Choose. > here we are on the tagging ma

Re: [Tagging] Understanding links

2014-09-23 Thread johnw
On Sep 23, 2014, at 7:39 PM, Lukas Sommer wrote: > > As I understand it, the local access roads would be an unclassified road > > with bollards or a kind of barrier at each end, and with trunk links, (or > > one way unclassified roads?) that lead onto the actual new trunk road. > > There is n

Re: [Tagging] Understanding links

2014-09-23 Thread Lukas Sommer
> As I understand it, the local access roads would be an unclassified road with bollards or a kind of barrier at each end, and with trunk links, (or one way unclassified roads?) that lead onto the actual new trunk road. There is not much documentation on the wiki. The only thing that I found was a

Re: [Tagging] Understanding links

2014-09-23 Thread Satoshi IIDA
If you got any communication loss during the contact, I'll support it. But I think he/she is able to understand English. I saw he/she many time in wiki translation and other OSM related software translation acts. 2014-09-23 2:25 GMT+09:00 fly : > Am 22.09.2014 15:06, schrieb johnw: > > I have