Re: [Tagging] dock=tidal

2015-05-29 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Why is this a property of the dock, rather than a property of the water body. What's wrong with floating vs. fixed? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread johnw
Depending on the country, state, area the address does not necessarily refer to the building. In Australia the address refers to the property ie the plot of ground that is defined by the cadastral plan. So those plots of ground may be 600 sq m or 1,000,000 hectares and may have

Re: [Tagging] dock=tidal

2015-05-29 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 29/05/2015 08:41, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Why is this a property of the dock, rather than a property of the water body. A dock is a body of water. It may or may not be separated from a connecting river or sea by a lock or single gate. What's wrong with floating vs. fixed? What do you

Re: [Tagging] dock=tidal

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 09:18, Malcolm Herring malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com wrote: On 29/05/2015 08:41, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Why is this a property of the dock, rather than a property of the water body. A dock is a body of water. It may or may not be separated from a connecting river or sea

Re: [Tagging] dock=tidal

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 08:41, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: Why is this a property of the dock, rather than a property of the water body. What's wrong with floating vs. fixed? Some docks are gated and some are not. Same gate could be used as per lock gate. Same function. -- Mike.

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread Colin Smale
That's a circular definition. What is the actual difference between the two types of address, in your model? On 2015-05-29 02:27, pmailkeey . wrote: On 28 May 2015 at 08:24, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Mike, what's a node address and what's an area address (without

Re: [Tagging] Removal of amenity from OSM tagging

2015-05-29 Thread Lauri Kytömaa
pmailkeey wrote: johnw wrote: Forest=natural ? isn’t that natural=wood? I don't know the difference between a wood and a forest! landuse=forest and natural=wood are a poor example for historical reasons, when some thought that natural=wood together with landuse=forest was redundant, when it's

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread Colin Smale
Postcodes don't have addresses, but addresses can have postcodes. I say can have and not have as addresses can exist without postcodes, for example when the local authority has named the roads in a new estate but the postcodes have not been allocated yet. You need to be able to talk about

Re: [Tagging] man_made=works

2015-05-29 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 29.05.2015 13:47, pmailkeey . napisał(a): On 29 May 2015 at 12:42, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: W dniu 29.05.2015 13:34, John Willis napisał(a): I know there is a way to tag what the building as to what it was initially used for - but i don't think that is the proper way (afaik).

Re: [Tagging] Removal of amenity from OSM tagging

2015-05-29 Thread John Willis
Sent from my iPhone On May 29, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: W dniu 29.05.2015 3:54, John Willis napisał(a): Currently, building=industrial +landuse=industrial has usurped man_made=works completely. I think of building=industrial like a building=church - it's

Re: [Tagging] Removal of amenity from OSM tagging

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 12:27, John Willis jo...@mac.com wrote: On May 29, 2015, at 7:35 PM, pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote: There are no man made trees in the forest, they all grow naturally. Man can plant a natural tree - or it could self-seed. In osm there is a distinction

Re: [Tagging] dock=tidal

2015-05-29 Thread John Eldredge
That is just one of the common meanings of dock. Another common meaning is as a synonym for pier, an above-water structure used to give access to a ship. On May 29, 2015 3:41:23 AM Malcolm Herring malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com wrote: On 29/05/2015 08:41, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Why is this

Re: [Tagging] Removal of amenity from OSM tagging

2015-05-29 Thread John Willis
On May 29, 2015, at 7:35 PM, pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote: There are no man made trees in the forest, they all grow naturally. Man can plant a natural tree - or it could self-seed. In osm there is a distinction between cultivated and constructed. We already do this will all

[Tagging] man_made=works (was: Re: Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-29 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 29.05.2015 13:34, John Willis napisał(a): I know there is a way to tag what the building as to what it was initially used for - but i don't think that is the proper way (afaik). So what do you think about building=church + amenity=museum then? I think we need some clear, general

Re: [Tagging] man_made=works (was: Re: Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 12:42, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: W dniu 29.05.2015 13:34, John Willis napisał(a): I know there is a way to tag what the building as to what it was initially used for - but i don't think that is the proper way (afaik). So what do you think about building=church +

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 11:43, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 2015-05-29 11:58, pmailkeey . wrote: On 29 May 2015 at 07:34, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Only Royal Mail think Chepstow is in Gloucestershire, England. Normal people think it is in Monmouthshire,

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread Marc Gemis
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:33 AM, pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote: Did you ever look at the example that I've send you ? (probably not because it doesn't fit in your idea of addresses) Probably ! The house numbers are used to identity flats, not the building. Now you're

Re: [Tagging] Removal of amenity from OSM tagging

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 03:06, John Willis jo...@mac.com wrote: On May 28, 2015, at 6:22 PM, AYTOUN RALPH ralph.ayt...@ntlworld.com wrote: And with this argument for a hierarchical approach we are back to the start point of umbrella tags that cover all possibilities which is

Re: [Tagging] dock=tidal

2015-05-29 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 29/05/2015 09:45, pmailkeey . wrote: Is, then, a dry dock an empty body of water? Only when it is pumped dry. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 07:18, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: That's a circular definition. What is the actual difference between the two types of address, in your model? Only 1 type of address, just attached to a different type object. -- Mike. @millomweb

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 10:56, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:33 AM, pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote: Did you ever look at the example that I've send you ? (probably not because it doesn't fit in your idea of addresses) Probably ! The house

Re: [Tagging] Removal of amenity from OSM tagging

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 03:27, John Willis jo...@mac.com wrote: On May 29, 2015, at 11:02 AM, pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote: And that ties in nicely with my thoughts of removing the words and generating tags and values by symbols ! Mapping by emoji! Just put a hot dog symbol in

Re: [Tagging] Removal of amenity from OSM tagging

2015-05-29 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 29.05.2015 3:54, John Willis napisał(a): Currently, building=industrial +landuse=industrial has usurped man_made=works completely. I think of building=industrial like a building=church - it's just a form, we need some way to describe the function, just like we do with

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 07:34, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Postcodes don't have addresses, but addresses can have postcodes. I say can have and not have as addresses can exist without postcodes, for example when the local authority has named the roads in a new estate but the

Re: [Tagging] Removal of amenity from OSM tagging

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 07:36, Lauri Kytömaa lkyto...@gmail.com wrote: pmailkeey wrote: johnw wrote: Forest=natural ? isn’t that natural=wood? I don't know the difference between a wood and a forest! landuse=forest and natural=wood are a poor example for historical reasons, when some

Re: [Tagging] Comms towers

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 05:47, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: according to this wiki page there is a difference between man_made=communications_tower and man_made=tower tower:type=communications and then there is also man_made=mast tower:type=communications pretty easy to

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 06:14, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:39 AM, pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote: Addresses are used to identify buildings. Not all buildings need to be identified. Did you ever look at the example that I've send you ? (probably

Re: [Tagging] dock=tidal

2015-05-29 Thread 715371
I would like to make the decision based on the usage of a dock. Such dock=tidal would never be used to pump the dock dry, but to keep a fixed water level, I think. Then the usage of dock=drydock would be associated to the purpose of dry docks. At Bremerhaven the structures which are described

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread Colin Smale
On 2015-05-29 11:58, pmailkeey . wrote: On 29 May 2015 at 07:34, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Only Royal Mail think Chepstow is in Gloucestershire, England. Normal people think it is in Monmouthshire, Wales. This is the correct postal address: 1 Bigstone Meadow Tutshill

Re: [Tagging] Comms towers

2015-05-29 Thread John Eldredge
Pole without a pole = pole? I am confused. What sort of structure are you describing? On May 29, 2015 5:48:33 AM pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote: On 29 May 2015 at 05:47, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: according to this wiki page there is a difference between

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread John Eldredge
Zip codes, in the USA, are the same way. They are intended for the post office's routing, and don't necessarily correspond to administrative divisions of the land. A given plot of land may be in one administrative division for tax purposes, yet be lumped into a neighboring division for

Re: [Tagging] man_made=works (was: Re: Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-29 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 12:47 +0100, pmailkeey . wrote: On 29 May 2015 at 12:42, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: W dniu 29.05.2015 13:34, John Willis napisał(a): I know there is a way to tag what the building as to what it was

Re: [Tagging] housenumber on node and area

2015-05-29 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 12:57 +0100, pmailkeey . wrote: For some strange reason, RM chose settlements rather than counties to determine postcodes. They chose where the sorting offices were and from that where the lines of communication went, that is why Market Bosworth (a long way inside

Re: [Tagging] To mark as covered, or to not mark as covered?

2015-05-29 Thread Richard
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:29:53PM -0500, Brad Neuhauser wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Richard ricoz@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 01:09:56PM -0500, Brad Neuhauser wrote: If this is like many fuel stations, it's probably just a roof with no walls. Typically,

Re: [Tagging] dock=tidal

2015-05-29 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 29/05/2015 13:16, John Eldredge wrote: That is just one of the common meanings of dock. Another common meaning is as a synonym for pier, an above-water structure used to give access to a ship. You are referring to the en-us usage of the word dock, which covers piers, pontoons the like.

Re: [Tagging] dock=tidal

2015-05-29 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Malcolm Herring malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com wrote: On 29/05/2015 08:41, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Why is this a property of the dock, rather than a property of the water body. A dock is a body of water. It may or may not be separated from a connecting river

Re: [Tagging] Tag: shop: hifi

2015-05-29 Thread Daniel Koć
I would like to ask a question about Wiki page for shop=hifi - there's a suggestion for merging it with shop=electronics, however there's only one statement on discussion page and it's 4 years old, so it looks like this proposition is not valid anymore:

Re: [Tagging] man_made=works

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 13:06, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: W dniu 29.05.2015 13:47, pmailkeey . napisał(a): On 29 May 2015 at 12:42, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: W dniu 29.05.2015 13:34, John Willis napisał(a): I know there is a way to tag what the building as to what it was initially

Re: [Tagging] man_made=works

2015-05-29 Thread pmailkeey .
On 29 May 2015 at 15:34, Arch Arch 7h3.a...@gmail.com wrote: There do exist church buildings which are no longer in use as place of worships. Those can be tagged with building=church without amenity=place_of_worship See:

Re: [Tagging] man_made=works

2015-05-29 Thread Warin
On 30/05/2015 9:40 AM, pmailkeey . wrote: On 29 May 2015 at 13:06, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl mailto:daniel@ko%C4%87.pl wrote: W dniu 29.05.2015 13:47, pmailkeey . napisał(a): On 29 May 2015 at 12:42, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl mailto:daniel@ko%C4%87.pl wrote:

Re: [Tagging] man_made=works (was: Re: Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-29 Thread John Willis
Sent from my iPhone On May 29, 2015, at 9:28 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: Although not the type of amenity estate agents usually describe. [pure speculation on my part] that is because the amenity tag originally was for the amenities of a town. Over time, as tagging

Re: [Tagging] man_made=works

2015-05-29 Thread John Willis
On May 30, 2015, at 12:41 AM, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: But if not, we have no system, just historical cases and a lot of exceptions. I think it's time to try to make some rules instead. I though there was some tag prefix like disused: or abandoned: that could be used with the

Re: [Tagging] man_made=works

2015-05-29 Thread Marc Gemis
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote: If museums are not an amenity but building? Are all mappable 'museums' buildings? I don't know. No, you're right, there are museums in parks. see e.g.[1] located here [2], which is unfortunately still mapped as a node. But

[Tagging] Data Model for Address

2015-05-29 Thread Colin Smale
If anyone is interested in the data model used by Royal Mail in UK addresses, this will tell you loads: http://www.poweredbypaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Latest-Programmers_guide_Edition-7-Version-6.pdf [1] Warning: you may find yourself uttering things in rather unparliamentary

Re: [Tagging] man_made=works

2015-05-29 Thread Arch Arch
Am 29.05.2015 um 14:06 schrieb Daniel Koć: W dniu 29.05.2015 13:47, pmailkeey . napisał(a): On 29 May 2015 at 12:42, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: W dniu 29.05.2015 13:34, John Willis napisał(a): I know there is a way to tag what the building as to what it was initially used for - but i