Re: [Tagging] Building names, historical/original owner?

2018-12-15 Thread Michael Patrick
> I have a question about `name=` and variants of names. I've been reading a lot of local history and in the architecture/history world, houses are generally named for the first resident that they were built for. E.g."Johnson house" and are referred to in this way even after many generations of

Re: [Tagging] Bad mapping in Pointe Noire Africa?

2018-12-15 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 8:12 PM Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I came across a lot of sport=null .. and found it in Pointe Noire,some > 18,000? > > Looks like there are a few other *=null there too. 'null' usually indicates a botched import from a database that had fields with missing

[Tagging] Bad mapping in Pointe Noire Africa?

2018-12-15 Thread Warin
Hi I came across a lot of sport=nullĀ  .. and found it in Pointe Noire,some 18,000? Looks like there are a few other *=null there too. Anyone with any idea of what *=null might be taken as? I have made a changeset comment, but thought I'd ask here too.

[Tagging] Highway=*_link roads at Y-junctions and roundabouts?

2018-12-15 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
While checking the rendering of highway link roads (eg motorway_link, primary_link, tertiary_link), I noticed that in some cases these tags are used when a road splits in a Y-junction, for example before a traffic circle / roundabout. In some areas these are the most common forms of _link for less

Re: [Tagging] how to map soft story/soft storey buildings properly?

2018-12-15 Thread Paul Allen
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 10:49 PM Stefano Maffulli wrote: > > Question for the community: does it make sense to add soft story > information using the key building:soft_storey=y/n (similar to > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:fireproof) or should I > use

[Tagging] how to map soft story/soft storey buildings properly?

2018-12-15 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, i'm a bit confused about how to map soft story buildings. The Wikipedia definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_story_building is soft story building is a multi-story building in which one or more floors have windows, wide doors, large unobstructed commercial spaces, or other

[Tagging] Voting for Public Transport Schedules/Interval

2018-12-15 Thread Leif Rasmussen
Hi everyone, I am now opening up voting for the tag "interval". Once approved, it will be used on bus routes, ferry routes, railway routes, and others to state the frequency at which buses, trains, or ferries arrive. This is a very simple addition that will not cause any data to be broken. The

Re: [Tagging] Building names, historical/original owner?

2018-12-15 Thread Adam Franco
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:46 AM Jmapb wrote: > IMO it's fine to use old_name=* even without name=* -- to record the fact > that it used to be known as the Johnson House, but there's no current name > in common use. J > Thanks all for the feedback. I guess I'll use old_name=* for these. The