Re: [Tagging] Query regarding seasonal tag combined for outdoor water fountains.

2020-01-15 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 20:52, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > > seasonal=summer > > Well, this is the problem with the tag "seasonal" - it's not 100% > clear if "seasonal=summer" means "this feature is only available in > the summer" or "this feature is NOT available in the summer". Ah, good point! So

Re: [Tagging] Query regarding seasonal tag combined for outdoor water fountains.

2020-01-15 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 01:19, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > On 1/15/20, European Water Project wrote: > > Would it be appropriate to use the tag "seasonal" for a water fountain > > (whether tagged as "amenity=drinking_water" or "amenity = fountain and > > drinking_water = yes" )? > > Since drinking

Re: [Tagging] How to tag oneway restriction applying to pedestrians?

2020-01-14 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 09:34, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Am Di., 14. Jan. 2020 um 15:16 Uhr schrieb Jarek Piórkowski > : >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 03:48, Martin Koppenhoefer >> wrote: >> > Lets see tags more like a programming language and less like natural >

Re: [Tagging] How to tag oneway restriction applying to pedestrians?

2020-01-14 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 03:48, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Lets see tags more like a programming language and less like natural language. Here's how the mappers have seen the tags in question so far, according to Taginfo: oneway:foot=no 1267 occurrences (not all from one region) oneway:foot=yes

Re: [Tagging] POI data and Addresses on areas - Was: addresses on buildings

2020-01-12 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 06:38, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:39:44PM -0500, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > > I was thinking about this whole thing earlier. Caution, wall of text. > > > > At the risk of being philosophical, what is an address exactly? >

Re: [Tagging] How to tag oneway restriction applying to pedestrians?

2020-01-11 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 18:18, Jmapb via Tagging wrote: > On 1/11/2020 11:16 AM, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > > I imagine that virtually all real-world pedestrian ways that are > > one-way for pedestrians would be on dedicated pedestrian ways - that > > is, highway=footway. If t

Re: [Tagging] How to tag oneway restriction applying to pedestrians?

2020-01-11 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 11:57, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Am Sa., 11. Jan. 2020 um 17:17 Uhr schrieb Jarek Piórkowski > : >> I imagine that virtually all real-world pedestrian ways that are >> one-way for pedestrians would be on dedicated pedestrian ways - that >> is, hi

Re: [Tagging] How to tag oneway restriction applying to pedestrians?

2020-01-11 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 04:48, Volker Schmidt wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 10:20, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: >> > On 9. Jan 2020, at 22:04, Dave F via Tagging >> > wrote: >> >> oneway=yes|no needs indeed be applicable to vehicles only, >> > >> > That tag on footways would apply only to

Re: [Tagging] POI data and Addresses on areas - Was: addresses on buildings

2020-01-10 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 18:04, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:34:32AM -0500, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 04:22, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > OTOH in the dense urban areas you have the problem of Address for road A > > > n

Re: [Tagging] POI data and Addresses on areas - Was: addresses on buildings

2020-01-10 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 04:22, Florian Lohoff wrote: > OTOH in the dense urban areas you have the problem of Address for road A > nearer to Road B. So you get navigated to the wrong spot on the road > network. This view is generated with the OSRM Car profile and mapping > all addr:* objects with

Re: [Tagging] Cycle boxes for two-stage left turns

2020-01-08 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 08:03, marc marc wrote: > Le 08.01.20 à 05:10, Marc Gemis a écrit : > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:30 PM marc marc wrote: > >> keep it simple ! > >> advanced stop box only use a cycleway=asl without relation > >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:cycleway%3Dasl > >> a

Re: [Tagging] Cycle boxes for two-stage left turns

2020-01-08 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 10:00, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 7:06 PM Jarek Piórkowski wrote: >> I'm looking for a way to tag designated areas where cyclists wait to >> safely make a far turn (in right-hand-drive regions, a left turn). >> I'll call them "

Re: [Tagging] How to tag oneway restriction applying to pedestrians?

2020-01-08 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 16:33, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > Although unusual, oneway on pedestrian highways (path, footway, track) is > possible in some places. > > Cases of oneway pedestrian traffic includes some hiking trails, border > crossing, > exit-only passages and more. > > How to tag this?

Re: [Tagging] Cycle boxes for two-stage left turns

2020-01-07 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 19:41, Morten Lange via Tagging wrote: > On-street markings for a two-stage left-turn were recently introduced on a > few roads/streets in Oslo, Norway. > > I think > cycleway:asl=two_stage_left_turn > looks okay. > > But since there is > cycleway=asl > > why not use >

Re: [Tagging] Cycle boxes for two-stage left turns

2020-01-07 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 12:15, Florimond Berthoux wrote: > Hello, > > I think it’s a good thing to map these two stage turn for bicycles. > I can’t see better solution than using relation (unless doing surface > mapping...). > > Le lun. 6 janv. 2020 à 04:21, Jare

Re: [Tagging] Cycle boxes for two-stage left turns

2020-01-07 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 16:29, marc marc wrote: > > Le 06.01.20 à 04:19, Jarek Piórkowski a écrit : > > Comments most welcome! > > keep it simple ! > advanced stop box only use a cycleway=asl without relation > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:cycleway%3Dasl > a

Re: [Tagging] Incomplete addresses

2020-01-06 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 20:59, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Was wondering about how to bring this up when the ongoing discussion about > building addresses started ... > > I've recently been working on Map Roulette errors, & while doing so, have > come across quite a few cases where addresses

Re: [Tagging] addresses on buildings

2020-01-06 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 18:23, Dave F via Tagging wrote: > On 05/01/2020 18:37, Marc Gemis wrote: > > This depends on the country. > > It is "forbidden" to put the address on the building in Denmark, > > Hi > > Where does it say that? Where does it say it's forbidden to add address > data to

Re: [Tagging] Cycle boxes for two-stage left turns

2020-01-05 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 20:05, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm looking for a way to tag designated areas where cyclists wait to > safely make a far turn (in right-hand-drive regions, a left turn). > I'll call them "left turn boxes" for short though point

Re: [Tagging] Tag for "tax free shopping"

2019-12-31 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 19:16, Colin Smale wrote: >> What do you consider a definition of "duty free" or "duty free shop" >> that would be useful to a OSM data consumer? > > Which OSM data consumer? > > Just a reminder: I didn't start this, I am merely trying to add a nuance to > the data

Re: [Tagging] Tag for "tax free shopping"

2019-12-31 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 18:48, Colin Smale wrote: > Just to be clear: in the situation I am referring to, an article priced at > GBP120 in such a mixed shop is GBP120 net to an exporting passenger, but > GBP100 net + GBP20 tax (@20% VAT) to a non-exporting passenger. Everybody > pays the same,

Re: [Tagging] Tag for "tax free shopping"

2019-12-31 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 17:37, Colin Smale wrote: > On 2019-12-31 23:04, Hauke Stieler wrote: >> that's true, the EU is one special case here. But would the status of a >> traveler influence the tagging schema of "duty_free=*" in your opinion? > > The EU is only a special case because there are

Re: [Tagging] Business names in capital letters

2019-12-29 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 16:24, bkil wrote: > We had the same argument over a local mailing list and another idea came up: > some of the signage you see and many of their own website use the given > capitalization for stylistic purposes. But the question remains: why isn't a > map using

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-21 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 22:30, Paul Johnson wrote: >> > What I'm saying is highway=bundesstraße could be acceptable, but >> > straße=bundestraße wouldn't be. Mostly so way type objects with highway=* >> > are still potentially routable. >> >> How do you propose these "potential routable"

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 20:26, Paul Johnson wrote: >> > I'm not arguing in favor of a change in language for key name. But the >> > local broadly accepted classification terminology (preferably in English >> > for consistency sake) for the value. >> >> Why in English? Bundesstraße is a broadly

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 20:16, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:57 PM Joseph Eisenberg > wrote: >> > Being able to speak each country's highway lingua franca would make it a >> > lot easier for OSM to become the Rosetta Stone of maps simply from ease of >> > classification. >>

[Tagging] Cycle boxes for two-stage left turns

2019-12-16 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
Hello, I'm looking for a way to tag designated areas where cyclists wait to safely make a far turn (in right-hand-drive regions, a left turn). I'll call them "left turn boxes" for short though pointers to a better name would be welcome! They're paint-designated places for cyclists to wait to do

Re: [Tagging] defining service on railway=tram

2019-03-10 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 22:39, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > Last month I wrote about defining service=* tag values for > railway=tram ways, which were previously not defined and used somewhat > varyingly in the wild. Thanks Mateusz for your help refining the > definitions! > >

Re: [Tagging] tags for tutor or coaching out of school

2019-03-10 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 05:17, Phake Nick wrote: > 在 2019年3月10日週日 11:04,Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> 寫道: >> There are a fair number of commercial tutor/coaching establishments that >> provide after school hours tuition in various subjects/courses. > > I have checked some of these features in

Re: [Tagging] Feature proposal - RFC - Line attachments

2019-03-07 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 20:16, Sergio Manzi wrote: > Then why not bolts and nuts? I suppose there are many nuts of historical > significance around. Indeed, and if someone comes up with a good tagging proposal for them, I'll support it, rather than disparage just because I personally don't find

Re: [Tagging] Feature proposal - RFC - Line attachments

2019-03-07 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 19:39, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let the mappers vote on if it should be in OSM by using or not using it. > Here we should be getting the best tags +1, I would rather have a well-specified tag that is rarely used than no tag at all. --Jarek

Re: [Tagging] Emergency vehicle country-specific law

2019-03-06 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 16:29, Richard Welty wrote: > i spent some time looking at a project to build OSM based > emergency maps. i concluded we needed to do layers of > information, some of which were appropriate to host in > OSM and others which were not. there would have been a > program to

Re: [Tagging] shop=clothes vs shop=fashion

2019-03-06 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 09:42, dktue wrote: > I currently found out that shops that sell clothes are either tagged with > shop=clothes > or with > shop=fashion > but I can't find out when to use which. > > Can anybody clarify? There is a continuum with shop=clothes, shop=fashion, and

Re: [Tagging] New Tag "Departures" voting results.

2019-03-05 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 13:35, Paul Allen wrote: > But I'd prefer we have specific keys for > timetables and GTFS data rather than rely upon either of those. Much better > to make things clear > with timetable=* and gtfs=* (except we have to deal with partial > timetables/feeds from operators >

Re: [Tagging] New Tag "Departures" voting results.

2019-03-05 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
Paul, If your use case is people using the query tool on https://openstreetmap.org to follow links to PDFs to plan a journey, then whatever tagging specification you use doesn't really matter as long as it's understandable to the people viewing it - a link looks like a link so that's quite easy.

Re: [Tagging] New Tag "Departures" voting results.

2019-03-04 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
Hello, I've gotten paid for wrangling GTFS worldwide before - happy to tell you some of my experiences. On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 19:42, Paul Allen wrote: > As I said, I'd prefer not to use url=* because it could be for anything - a > page about the history of > the bus stop (maybe the shelter is

Re: [Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

2019-03-02 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 05:34, Sergio Manzi wrote: > BTW, do we have a specific tag for "emergency traffic light" that are put > near emergency vehicles exits to stop normal traffic when emergency vehicles > are about to exit? Funnily enough, per

Re: [Tagging] New Tag "Departures" voting results.

2019-03-01 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 18:02, Leif Rasmussen <354...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems like the best way forward now is for a proposal allowing > OpenStreetMap data to be tightly integrated with outside sources (such as > GTFS) to be created by someone. +1. To avoid lots of changes, perhaps only set

Re: [Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

2019-03-01 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 15:25, Paul Johnson wrote: >> To exclude emergency vehicles one should tag physical, not legal >> barriers. > > To include motorized emergency vehicles where access=no or motor_vehicle=no, > you need to add emergency=yes. Because if we don't, the fire truck stops, the

Re: [Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

2019-03-01 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 09:10, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access and > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:emergency > were just modifed > > Review of > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key%3Aemergency=revision=1812453=1606896 Should "so

Re: [Tagging] Mistagging footways as highway=pedestrian

2019-02-28 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 13:11, Paul Allen wrote: > Vehicular access may be > prohibited by law, even if it's physically possible. Or it may be restricted > to service vehicles > supplying shops along the way (do we have an access value for that?) Yes, of course, access=delivery, possibly

Re: [Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

2019-02-27 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 13:52, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 12:41 Jarek Piórkowski wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 13:32, Paul Johnson wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 11:25 Fernando Trebien >> > wrote: >> >> I never thought that e

Re: [Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

2019-02-27 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 13:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 11:25 Fernando Trebien > wrote: >> I never thought that emergency access would determine highway >> classification. It seems like a secondary use of the way, not its main >> use/purpose. > > motor_vehicle=no would exclude

Re: [Tagging] Proposal - Key:access=restricted

2019-02-23 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
Reposting to mailing list, after henkevdb sent to my personal email On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 14:16, henkevdb wrote: > watercourses ( in Belgium anyway) are (mostly) open to the 'general > public', so , access=no (with description ; "No access for the general > public.") is not good then Don't set

Re: [Tagging] Proposal - Key:access=restricted

2019-02-23 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 12:54, henkevdb wrote: > Possibility to 'introduce' a Key:access=restricted ... with description ; > traffic only open for mentioned*=yes . IMHO: What is the advantage over using access=no? access=no already compounds like this. This also works in parallel with existing

Re: [Tagging] units and notations for maxstay

2019-02-21 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 19:15, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > OSM relies on the contributions of many people, most of them are not going to > spend much time learn stuff - particular complicated stuff that they don't > see in their day to day life. > > The complexity of things like the

Re: [Tagging] units and notations for maxstay

2019-02-20 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 17:11, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Is OSM supposed to be for a tight, dedicated group of expert mappers trying > to create the best, most accurate, technically-perfect map the World has ever > seen; or is it for the use of John Doe & Jane Public using OSMAND & Maps Me >

Re: [Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

2019-02-20 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 14:51, Mark Wagner wrote: > > Do you have any locally-defined highway system that approximately > > matches the idea of "a system of highways that generally connects > > place=hamlet"? > > That would be the state highway system: nearly every incorporated > community and

Re: [Tagging] units and notations for maxstay

2019-02-20 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 07:55, Paul Allen wrote: > You are living in an ideal world that does not exist. Go to the standard > carto. Use the query tool. > All the translation mechanisms you posit do not exist. Hey, wait a second. Most people around where I live wouldn't understand why smaller

Re: [Tagging] StreetComplete 10 / foot=yes on residential

2019-02-17 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 18:07, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > highway=* > tunnel=yes > sidewalk=no > and a significant length +1 on this. I would expect a pedestrian router to apply a scoring penalty to highways with sidewalk=no or sidewalk=separate, and with the help of this scoring choose the

Re: [Tagging] Tagging "test preperation" / cram school / Juku (eg: Komon)

2019-02-17 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 10:48, Jmapb wrote: > I've been tagging them as office=tutoring... can't remember whose suggestion > that was, but it seems adequate. (Only 35 hits on taginfo though.) Could > combine with tutoring=test_prep if that's the main focus. Hi John and J, In Toronto I've seen

Re: [Tagging] Rivers intermittently navigable

2019-02-15 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
My suggestion would be to map only the normal and the predictable. If it's usually not navigable in summer, "no @ summer" or something. If it's not really predictable, I wouldn't map it unless it's something dangerous like vulnerable to flash floods or lahars. Highways liable to getting cut

Re: [Tagging] StreetComplete 10 / foot=yes on residential

2019-02-14 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 13:51, Tobias Zwick wrote: > I doubt access restrictions are used that way in reality. > The absence of keys like the mentioned key walkable(, cycleable, > motorcarable, hgvable etc.) is a clear sign for that, because there are > enough situations where the situation on the

Re: [Tagging] StreetComplete 10 / foot=yes on residential

2019-02-14 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 08:42, Tobias Zwick wrote: > What do you think? Hello, In my experience in Canada I would indeed expect all (or basically all) highway=residential to be (legally) accessible to pedestrians, the question would be more about comfort or safety. I don't know if tagging

Re: [Tagging] defining service on railway=tram

2019-02-10 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
Hi all, Last month I wrote about defining service=* tag values for railway=tram ways, which were previously not defined and used somewhat varyingly in the wild. Thanks Mateusz for your help refining the definitions! I have now written

Re: [Tagging] tree rows vs individual trees

2019-02-10 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 17:10, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > In a related discussion I have heard the argument that, after mapping the > individual trees, "if we > delete the tree_row way, we lose the information that they are part of a tree > row." > > The problem with that argument is that a tree_row

Re: [Tagging] tree rows vs individual trees

2019-02-09 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 09:23, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > IMHO this violates the one object - one OSM element principle. Either I > choose the coarser approach > to map a way for the row, or I refine it to individual trees, but should not > use the row anymore. Hello, My interpretation would be that

Re: [Tagging] motorcycle:scale

2019-02-05 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 17:55, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > What concerns me a bit, is that there are 75+ OSM mappers, which is > great! But it would seem that there are only ~50 (? - someone would know) > members of "Tagging", with only ~20 of those being active (which I would call >

Re: [Tagging] defining service on railway=tram

2019-01-23 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 15:51, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > Evertthing is right and welcome! Cheers, thank you! >> 1. no service tag recommended for tracks that are regularly used in >> scheduled service, including loops and tail tracks > Also part of loops that are never used to carry passengers,

Re: [Tagging] The actual use of the level tag

2019-01-20 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 16:58, Tobias Zwick wrote: > Well, all of which I mentioned is optional. But I can come up with two > use cases for wanting to know which level is the ground level: > > 1. Localization > > In an application, it is much nicer to be able to write > "ground floor" (en-GB),

[Tagging] defining service on railway=tram

2019-01-19 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
Hello, First time posting here, forgive if I've missed some rules. Summary: I wanted to refine tagging of some tram/streetcar tracks to show what they're used for, and found this isn't standardized and isn't documented. I would like to suggest updating wiki for Key:service to specify

Re: [Tagging] Tag an information panel

2019-01-19 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 08:29, Paul Allen wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 09:58, yo paseopor wrote: >> -Information about the capacity of a parking > > Tag the capacity of the car park itself. It's more useful. People may use > the query tool (or > similar techniques) to look at the tags for

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