Re: [Tagging] paving_stones:n

2015-03-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-04 14:04 GMT+01:00 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de: I agree that we should use a subtag instead of adding this kind of rarely-used information to the surface value. However, I would prefer to use paving_stones:width (as it is unclear what dimension size refers to). IMHO width is

Re: [Tagging] paving_stones:n

2015-03-04 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
square_paving_stones:width? According to wiki this is supposed to be applied only to square paving stones. 2015-03-04 17:08 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2015-03-04 14:04 GMT+01:00 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de: I agree that we should use a subtag instead of

Re: [Tagging] paving_stones:n

2015-03-04 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Maybe: paving_stone:area=42 cm But what we really need is: paving_stone:geometry= paving_stone:concrete:grain_size= paving_stone:spectral_reflectance_curves= paving_stone:manufacturing_date= ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Wiki vote threshold

2015-03-04 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: any idea how to determine this? Please see my examples above of different tags for different features. Obviously a tag for obelisks will very unlikely get 1 uses and more, while this might still be very few

Re: [Tagging] paving_stones:n

2015-03-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-04 19:13 GMT+01:00 Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com: But what we really need is: paving_stone:geometry= paving_stone:concrete:grain_size= paving_stone:spectral_reflectance_curves= paving_stone:manufacturing_date= +1 and paving_stone:bevel_variance cheers, Martin

Re: [Tagging] paving_stones:n

2015-03-04 Thread Dave Swarthout
But what we really need is: paving_stone:geometry= paving_stone:concrete:grain_size= paving_stone:spectral_reflectance_curves= paving_stone:manufacturing_date= +1 Now we're getting somewhere. I think too that we need a way to tag how the stone was formed, also color

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread johnw
On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org wrote: Maybe someone can confirm this, but I think it might actually be the difference in language from the Park Service versus Forest Service; i.e. in a National Forest you find Ranger Stations, in the Parks you

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Tod Fitch
On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:03 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org wrote: Maybe someone can confirm this, but I think it might actually be the difference in language from the Park Service versus Forest Service; i.e. in a National

[Tagging] Draft Proposed Relationship Area Steps

2015-03-04 Thread Warin
Hi, I've created a draft proposal for a relation of area steps ... https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation/Proposed/Area-steps It comes from discussions here, on tagging group, for a large area of steps that referenced a draft proposed relationship by Dieterdresist -

Re: [Tagging] paving_stones:n

2015-03-04 Thread Warin
On 5/03/2015 11:03 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote: But what we really need is: paving_stone:geometry= paving_stone:concrete:grain_size= paving_stone:spectral_reflectance_curves= paving_stone:manufacturing_date= +1 Now we're getting somewhere. I think too that we need a way to tag how the stone

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
In the end I think the better tag would have been amenity=visitor_contact_facility. Ranger station is commonly mapped in the USA, but has a murky meaning. In the US national and state parks, the visitor center and ranger station have overlap, with the more visitor oriented ranger jobs happening

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread johnw
On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree with the statement A ranger station is generally the first and primary spot for visitors. that just appeared on the page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dranger_station

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread johnw
On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: The tag would probably have been better expressed as amenity=park_visitor_center or amenity=park_hq. couldn’t find those on the wiki. Visitor’s center is some kind of information tag, and park HQ might be some form

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
You're welcome to fix it. I note that on US park maps the visitor center is often marked with the ranger station symbol, and it serves dual purpose. The tag would probably have been better expressed as amenity=park_visitor_center or amenity=park_hq. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Dave

Re: [Tagging] paving_stones:n

2015-03-04 Thread johnw
On Mar 5, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/03/2015 11:03 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote: But what we really need is: paving_stone:geometry= paving_stone:concrete:grain_size= paving_stone:spectral_reflectance_curves= paving_stone:manufacturing_date= +1 Now

[Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Dave Swarthout
I disagree with the statement A ranger station is generally the first and primary spot for visitors. that just appeared on the page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dranger_station I think the Visitor Center is the first and primary spot for visitors, especially in the larger

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Warin
On 5/03/2015 12:32 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: In the end I think the better tag would have been amenity=visitor_contact_facility. tourism=visitor_centre ? But there are already two existing tags that could be used; tourism=information /May include Tourist information centres and offices./

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org wrote: Maybe someone can confirm this, but I think it might actually be the difference in language from the Park Service versus Forest Service; i.e. in a National Forest you find Ranger Stations, in the Parks you find

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Dave Swarthout
It sounds like the original meaning of ranger_station might have described what I would term a Visitor Center. After reading these responses to my post, and realizing that there are many parks with visitor centers (even here in Thailand) that cannot be tagged under the present system, its obvious

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like the original meaning of ranger_station might have described what I would term a Visitor Center. After reading these responses to my post, and realizing that there are many parks with visitor centers

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Tod Fitch
On Mar 4, 2015, at 10:25 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote: tourism=information May include Tourist information centres and offices. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dinformation information=officeAn office where you can get information about a town or region.

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Clifford Snow
There is a pretty complete wiki [1] page for US NPS tagging. Looks like we could use some clarification of Ranger Station, but the visitor center is mapped as information https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:information= office https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:information%3Doffice

Re: [Tagging] Draft Proposed Relationship Area Steps

2015-03-04 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
For areas area:highway should be used, not highway. 2015-03-05 0:54 GMT+01:00 Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com: Hi, I've created a draft proposal for a relation of area steps ... https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation/Proposed/Area-steps It comes from discussions here, on tagging group,

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Russell Deffner
Maybe someone can confirm this, but I think it might actually be the difference in language from the Park Service versus Forest Service; i.e. in a National Forest you find Ranger Stations, in the Parks you find Visitor Centers? =Russ From: johnw [mailto:jo...@mac.com] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread johnw
we should be able to map the icon to a generic tag, such as amenity=camp_office or something, or map the more private “ranger_station” facilities in another matter, and leave amenity=ranger_station to these more public facing facilities that people are looking for. The name “ranger station”

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread johnw
On Mar 5, 2015, at 12:08 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:03 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org wrote: Maybe someone can confirm this, but I think it might

Re: [Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Dave Swarthout
tourism=information *May include Tourist information centres and offices.* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dinformation information=office*An office where you can get information about a town or region.* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:information Yes, I suppose

[Tagging] Proposed: landuse=civic_admin - looking for comments.

2015-03-04 Thread johnw
I originally proposed landuse=civic, and after feedback, I decided to narrow the focus of the value, and rewrote a majority of the proposal, with clearer explanations of purpose, narrower focus, and a section on limitations of use. Please read the proposal (I think it’s shorter now) and let me

Re: [Tagging] Mapping busways with alternating physical separation

2015-03-04 Thread Richard Mann
Trams used to be just done as a simple tag on the road way, but they have slowly been converted to having their own OSM ways (one for each track). I haven't been paying attention; there might not be many of the original method left. I'd probably draw it as four parallel ways, and regard the white

Re: [Tagging] tagging very wide steps - highway=steps on an area?

2015-03-04 Thread Warin
On 4/03/2015 8:24 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2015-03-04 2:37 GMT+01:00 Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com: Using the relation, I've added step area to the Sydney Opera House .. it is a very wide area .. http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4645750

Re: [Tagging] Mapping busways with alternating physical separation

2015-03-04 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
Note that highway=bus_guideway is for A busway that is side guided rails like, not suitable for other traffic. - so it is not just bus lane. See for an example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Guided_Busway#mediaviewer/File:Guided_bus_Oakington_to_Longstanton.jpg 2015-03-04 10:41

Re: [Tagging] Wiki vote threshold

2015-03-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-04 9:35 GMT+01:00 Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com: After, say, 1 year in any one status, move them to status ... 'Expired', 'Resting', 'Paused ' or ? They could later be 'resuscitated' to some other status? Unless they are in status 'Voting' then judged on the total votes? -1

Re: [Tagging] Wiki vote threshold

2015-03-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-04 10:57 GMT+01:00 Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com: status = 'de facto' ? any idea how to determine this? Please see my examples above of different tags for different features. Obviously a tag for obelisks will very unlikely get 1 uses and more, while this might still be very few for

Re: [Tagging] tagging very wide steps - highway=steps on an area?

2015-03-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-04 10:46 GMT+01:00 Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com: There also seems to be a contradiction in that the standard steps ways extend beyond the area and up to the center of the road. I'd suggest to split them and have them end at the first riser (= the way with the role lower) and tag the

Re: [Tagging] Wiki vote threshold

2015-03-04 Thread Marc Gemis
I guess I am suggesting there are quite a lot, technically, under way. I'd rather see them either make it the 'official' list or be rejected. After, say, 1 year in any one status, move them to status ... 'Expired', 'Resting', 'Paused ' or ? They could later be 'resuscitated' to some

Re: [Tagging] tagging very wide steps - highway=steps on an area?

2015-03-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-04 2:37 GMT+01:00 Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com: Using the relation, I've added step area to the Sydney Opera House .. it is a very wide area .. http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4645750 IMHO you don't need the lateral ways in this case, but they won't harm anyway. I suggest you

Re: [Tagging] Wiki vote threshold

2015-03-04 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: -1 Everyone can see from the dates since when a proposal is proposed. Something like expired, resting or paused does not have any benefit besides discouraging unexperienced mappers from using it, while it may

Re: [Tagging] Wiki vote threshold

2015-03-04 Thread Warin
On 4/03/2015 5:56 PM, David Bannon wrote: On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 22:06 -0800, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Jan van Bekkum jan.vanbek...@gmail.com wrote: I find it quite hard to find existing proposals, perhaps because there are so many

Re: [Tagging] Wiki vote threshold

2015-03-04 Thread Warin
On 4/03/2015 7:53 PM, Marc Gemis wrote: I guess I am suggesting there are quite a lot, technically, under way. I'd rather see them either make it the 'official' list or be rejected. After, say, 1 year in any one status, move them to status ... 'Expired', 'Resting', 'Paused

Re: [Tagging] Wiki vote threshold

2015-03-04 Thread SomeoneElse
2015-03-04 9:35 GMT+01:00 Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com: After, say, 1 year in any one status, move them to status ... 'Expired', 'Resting', 'Paused ' or ? ... pining for the fjords? This tag's not dead, it's Cheers, Andy

Re: [Tagging] paving_stones:n

2015-03-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-04 3:38 GMT+01:00 Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.com: The whole idea of including a size for paving stones seems overkill to me +1, although one has to acknowledge that paving_stones:30 is in the top 25 of values for surface: http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/surface#values Thing is

Re: [Tagging] paving_stones:n

2015-03-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.com wrote: The whole idea of including a size for paving stones seems overkill to me. Although in places like Germany and Austria where they're running out of things to map, it might be more attractive. The really uncanny

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - power_supply:schedule

2015-03-04 Thread Jan van Bekkum
As the period for comments has passed and no new comments have come in during the last week I would like to move the proposal to the voting stage. The entire proposal can be found here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/power_supply%3Dintermittent, the voting section is here

Re: [Tagging] Mapping busways with alternating physical separation

2015-03-04 Thread Fernando Trebien
I've highlighted that misuse of bus guideways in two cases (Nantes and Mexico City) in my comparison table at the beginning of this thread [1]. I'd guess these were mapped for the renderer, so probably worth a map note for local mappers if nobody disagrees. [1] http://i.imgur.com/RLdZgDk.png On

Re: [Tagging] Bus route relations. Forward/backward tag

2015-03-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Éric Gillet gill3t.3ric+...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-02-16 13:03 GMT+01:00 fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com: There are still cases where forward/backward are useful with P2-routes. E.g. a route with a loop and some members used twice but different directions.

Re: [Tagging] paving_stones:n

2015-03-04 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 04.03.2015 02:45, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Please retag indeed! paving_stones:size=20cm I agree that we should use a subtag instead of adding this kind of rarely-used information to the surface value. However, I would prefer to use paving_stones:width (as it is unclear what dimension size

Re: [Tagging] Bus route relations. Forward/backward tag

2015-03-04 Thread Jo
Can you send links to the route relations? (Ctrl-Shft-h of Ctrl-Shift-i in JOSM, then copy/paste the url). That rendering with all the red lines is not the best way to represent PT. Jo 2015-03-04 12:55 GMT+01:00 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org: On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Éric Gillet