Re: [Tagging] Please don't think name_1 tags are errors.

2016-01-21 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 20.01.2016 23:17, moltonel 3x Combo napisał(a): Concerning your suggestion to use "name=n1 alt_name=n2;n3", let me rethorically wonder why you didn't suggest "name=n1;n2;n3" ? I expect it is because the risk of semicolons in the "name" tag catching some consumers unaware. Well, that risk

Re: [Tagging] Removing name_1 and alt_name_1 from Wiki

2016-01-21 Thread Colin Smale
Thanks for your comments Martin! On 2016-01-21 12:21, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2016-01-21 11:03 GMT+01:00 Colin Smale : > >> A few candidates I can think of for incorporation in to the OSM (meta)model: >> >> * date/time format > > +1, the opening_hours syntax is

Re: [Tagging] Removing name_1 and alt_name_1 from Wiki

2016-01-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-01-21 11:03 GMT+01:00 Colin Smale : > A few candidates I can think of for incorporation in to the OSM > (meta)model: > > * date/time format > +1, the opening_hours syntax is IMHO the defacto standard, it is also used in other context, e.g. service_times or conditional

Re: [Tagging] Removing name_1 and alt_name_1 from Wiki

2016-01-21 Thread Colin Smale
It's a great shame that OSM seems incapable of moving its information model forwards. There have been so many discussions about the need for a way of representing multi-valued attributes (as occur in real life) within the OSM framework, and yet it keeps coming back again and again. Instead of

[Tagging] Tagging scrapyards, junkyards

2016-01-21 Thread EthnicFood IsGreat
> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:12:23 +0700 > From: Dave Swarthout > To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" > > Subject: Re: [Tagging] Tagging scrap yards, junkyards > > A waste transfer station is a different operation from this

Re: [Tagging] Tagging scrapyards, junkyards

2016-01-21 Thread Colin Smale
What is your linguistic frame of reference? In the UK, the word "junkyard" is not used often and I would go to a "scrapyard" (or even more likely a "breakers [yard]") for a "new" window for my old car. Far better to use longer, more descriptive words/phrases which are less likely to lead to

Re: [Tagging] Tagging scrapyards, junkyards

2016-01-21 Thread David Swarthout
As always, these linguistic preferences color every discussion. I use the word junkyard as do most Americans but I settled on scrapyard as a reasonable compromise but YMMV. these conversations tend to go round and round and I am satisfied with what I have.  Sent from Outlook Mobile On Thu,

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Michał Brzozowski
I was thinking of using osmosis to filter out objects with wikipedia tag and then running a query in PostGIS. What a brain fade I've had, we have Taginfo to the rescue: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/wikipedia#values It's really interesting to see Wikipedia tags on individual ways of

Re: [Tagging] Tagging scrapyards, junkyards

2016-01-21 Thread Marc Gemis
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > Far better to use longer, more descriptive words/phrases which are less > likely to lead to major differences in interpretation across the entire > world, English-speaking and otherwise. We shouldn't be wasting energy >