Re: [Tagging] How to tag house numbers based on decametres?

2009-10-12 Thread Liz
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Cartinus wrote: The only problem then is how to tag the start/end of a numbering section, based on that document major roads are broken up into sections of 100km. Relation: node for start, node for end, list of ways to connect from start to end It's probably

Re: [Tagging] How to tag house numbers based on decametres?

2009-10-12 Thread Liz
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Peter Childs wrote: 100km is the distance from hmm Washington to Baltimore or London to Oxford (give or take) if your going to only survey a few points in that distance, Each main road in my area will be easily 70 to 140km in length eg Hay to Balranald is 129km. The

Re: [Tagging] [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-14 Thread Liz
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Sam Vekemans wrote: eye... i, i ie :0) But of course the landuse us 'unknown' by default. .. so what needs to be done is to go around and find out what the actual landuse is. ... of course there are voids there are voids all over the map of black space. :) Sam, just

Re: [Tagging] Are tunnels only below ground? (Was

2009-11-04 Thread Liz
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Anthony wrote: And I don't want dotted lines when these passages are rendered - because if I look at that I'm going to expect something that goes underground, dotted lines on an Australian map would make me expect that the way was unsurfaced

Re: [Tagging] Implied oneway tag for highway=*_link, wiki edits

2009-11-27 Thread Liz
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: I should probably point out that not all roundabouts are one-way. That's a traffic circle I have researched this point.. Liz ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Tagging] Coastlines and structures

2009-12-09 Thread Liz
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: Yep. In river water there is less than 500 ppm of dissolved salts. So, rent a boat, take water samples at determined positions and measure the conductivity. (Just kidding... :-) ) I just had to look this up converted 500ppm to EC units

Re: [Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit knowledge of the law?

2009-12-11 Thread Liz
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: the cycleway tag means that you can cycle along without having to get off and port your bicycle over a fence But Liz, this definition isn't on the wiki. Have you documented your definition *somewhere*? How am I supposed to know that you mean

Re: [Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit knowledge of the law?

2009-12-11 Thread Liz
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Steve Bennett wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: So, what's your definition of cycleway? Do you mean the tag, or the reality? If the reality, then I could describe several classes of bike path and multiuse path and pedestrian path.

Re: [Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit knowledge of the law?

2009-12-12 Thread Liz
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: So here's my (proposed) scheme: highway=path (deprecate footway and cycleway!!) Any support for path=foot path=cycle path=horse path being distinct from highway (more work needed on this) highway for motorised vehicles who may (?!) share path not for

Re: [Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit knowledge of the law?

2009-12-12 Thread Liz
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Richard Mann wrote: There's an awful lot of cycleways already, so your definition has to recognise that. I assume that something which is marked as a cycleway really is one The argument in Europe is whether cycleways are by default shared (UK / Dutch norm), or by default

Re: [Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit knowledgeof the law?

2009-12-14 Thread Liz
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Richard Mann wrote: highway=cycleway only used for well-engineered public/permanant cycle tracks (ie could you safely do 20kph on it) I'm hoping to find some better engineering definitions for this, but this is my preferred general concept for 'cycleway'

Re: [Tagging] Should 'highway=incline[_steep]' be discouraged?

2009-12-29 Thread Liz
) A way can have an incline, but it needs a three dimensional description. Please remove from the wiki all the efforts of the failed_mathematics group at trying to describe a point with an incline, because it is rubbish. Liz ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] Should 'highway=incline[_steep]' be discouraged?

2009-12-29 Thread Liz
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: An incline is more or less a gradient. From Wikipedia: The gradient of H at a point is a vector pointing in the direction of the steepest slope or grade at that point. A point can have a gradient, and thus an incline. you'd better read better than that

Re: [Tagging] Proposed definition for cycleways (was Re: bicycle=no)

2010-01-04 Thread Liz
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Alex Mauer wrote: Your criteria for a “well-suited” cycle way are inapplicable to many cycleways. One big example is mountain bike trails, which fail nearly all of them: good surface, smoothness, gentle curves, signs giving priority to bicycles, and possibly navigability.

Re: [Tagging] Proposed definition for cycleways (was Re: bicycle=no)

2010-01-06 Thread Liz
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Steve Bennett wrote: The asymmetry arises from the requirements of the modes of transport: anything that a bike can ride on, a pedestrian can walk on - but not vice versa. except for the poor germans, who must not walk on a cycleway

Re: [Tagging] Easy question: _link tags for U turn/cut throughs?

2010-01-11 Thread Liz
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Steve Bennett wrote: Yeah actually you're probably right - even emergency services probably can't just drive through private land to get to an emergency. In NSW, the fire services can do as they please in those circumstances.

Re: [Tagging] What's a power=station?

2010-01-18 Thread Liz
down from high voltages to medium voltages is a substation So we can ignore power=station and have electricity generation plants, with subkeys for oil, gas, coal, nuclear, wind, methane, whatever have substations and have transformers Liz ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] What's a power=station?

2010-01-18 Thread Liz
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Ulf Lamping wrote: d) I don't think it's a good idea to change a tag description two years after it was documented, because the wording is slightly wrong for some parts of the english speaking world. Because doing so is an annoyance for anyone involved and the wording

Re: [Tagging] What's a power=station?

2010-01-19 Thread Liz
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Ulf Lamping wrote: But till today, no one came up with a good idea for such a process, willing to spend the effort to implement it and - this is probably the critical point - could convince a wide majority of mappers that following his idea/process is a good thing.

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-20 Thread Liz
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: We map everything we can. And POIs btw is one big reason for lot of people to map. Originally I didn't realise that there was no special reason for which shops had tagged and which didn't, so I only 'collected' POIs which had tags already. Now I

Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread Liz
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, David Earl wrote: I still think the most important criterion is what the owner of the establishment says it is, not on the subjective judgement of the surveyor. David In Au McDonalds call themselves Family Restaurants and I call them Fast Food. The subjective work of

Re: [Tagging] ref tags and reference routes

2010-02-03 Thread Liz
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Richard Welty wrote: so should a reference route designation that isn't on a sign go in a ref tag or not? the wiki doesn't discuss this. if ref shouldn't have this, perhaps a variant on ref is needed? Those sort of 'internal reference numbers' are used heavily in New

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Narrow width

2010-02-18 Thread Liz
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, John Smith wrote: If I form an opinion stating 2m is narrow and someone forms an opinion stating 4m is narrow how is that helpful in the least? Narrow on foot or narrow in a truck imply different widths. So I'm in favour of estimating a width for this purpose, and not

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Cycleway conditions

2010-02-19 Thread Liz
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Roy Wallace wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Kim Slotte kim.slo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Since the voting is a bit half-way I request your attention to get it finalized: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Cycleway_condition There seem

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - shop=estate_agent

2010-02-19 Thread Liz
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, specimail-for...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi everyone ! There is a (not by me) proposed feature shop=estate_agent: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Estate_Agent It is already used, as stated on wiki page. Thank you for voting. Djam Devil's Advocate

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Narrow width

2010-02-22 Thread Liz
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: If a user is bad at estimating widths I suggest that he measures the exact width. Still narrow is not a good solution to the problem as many posters have already written above. I reckon 3 paces would be more helpful than narrow Australia

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Narrow width

2010-02-22 Thread Liz
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, John Smith wrote: On 22 February 2010 18:54, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I reckon 3 paces would be more helpful than narrow Paces of a short or tall person? :) well they could add in the notes that they are 170cm tall and walking on crutches if they like

Re: [Tagging] source:geolocation?

2010-02-24 Thread Liz
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Roy Wallace wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:40 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Pick which ever has the most widespread use and document it. Hmm now that I check again, [1] lists a few hundred uses of source:position, but only 2 uses of source:location.

Re: [Tagging] Beaches

2010-04-09 Thread Liz
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, John Smith wrote: From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beach Beach areas should always meet with a natural=coastline way. Do not use this tag for patches of sand/gravel which are not by a coastline. Note that the natural=coastline should ideally be positioned at the

Re: [Tagging] Beaches

2010-04-10 Thread Liz
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Roy Wallace wrote: The only alternative I see is landuse=beach, which I think would be ok, if there were a clear distinction between this and natural=beach. For a beach created by dumping a bunch of sand in the middle of a city, to me, that's pretty clearly landuse=beach.

Re: [Tagging] playground tag proposal

2010-04-20 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, antony.king wrote: On 20 April 2010 09:27, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 April 2010 18:18, antony.king antony.k...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I'd like to get voting underway this weekend if possible, depending of course on what issues are raised.

Re: [Tagging] playground tag proposal

2010-04-20 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, antony.king wrote: Hi all, re http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Playground_Equipment I'd like to get this proposal finalized fairly soon as it has been open for a month now. There has been a lot of useful discussion already which I have taken on

Re: [Tagging] Oyster beds

2010-04-23 Thread Liz
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, John Smith wrote: Has anyone else tagged oyster beds? The only thing close on the wiki I can find is proposed reef: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/reef Is this the most suitable scheme? oyster beds suggests aquaculture aquaculture needs a

Re: [Tagging] Oyster beds

2010-04-23 Thread Liz
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, John Smith wrote: reef suggests natural, and oyster beds suggest man_made Well that's wrong, since they keep sinking ships to make dive reefs. and then they are called artificial reefs eg http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/22/2826761.htm

Re: [Tagging] Oyster beds

2010-04-23 Thread Liz
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, John Smith wrote: On 23 April 2010 21:54, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: and then they are called artificial reefs eg http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/22/2826761.htm I find it some what amusing that someone documented natural=reef and then documented natural

Re: [Tagging] Tagging buildings

2010-04-26 Thread Liz
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Alexander Sidorov wrote: Hello! I am writing an application that queries OSM buildings. Please tell me what is the common way of tagging buildings. Do they usually have names (I'm talking about usual buildings, not places of interest)? What does usually name contain:

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-newbies] compass rose or wind rose?

2010-04-28 Thread Liz
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2010-04-28 12:40, Xan wrote: How can i tag compass rose, like that http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:RosaDeLosVientosTorreDeHercules.jpg or wind rose? I like man_made=compass_rose . Based on the wikipedia article, it seems the more current

Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-05 Thread Liz
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Jonathan Bennett wrote: To be consistent, your example above should really be: what is it... a shop what sort of shop... food shop... what sort of food... ready cooked food or food that still needs cooking/preparing ___

Re: [Tagging] tagging for discount stores in US

2010-05-06 Thread Liz
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Richard Welty wrote: On 5/6/10 9:15 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: This leads to a new proposal: discount=yes to discriminate discounters. Could be used in addition for supermarkets, department stores and maybe others. usable with any shop= where appropriate? i can

Re: [Tagging] tagging for discount stores in US

2010-05-06 Thread Liz
On Fri, 7 May 2010, John Smith wrote: On 7 May 2010 07:03, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: well, yes, but within the US at least, i think there's broad agreement that one tier of department store (walmart, kmart, target) is discount with respect to another (macys, pennys,

Re: [Tagging] Scales / weigh stations

2010-05-07 Thread Liz
On Fri, 7 May 2010, John Smith wrote: On 7 May 2010 15:54, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: Periodically along US highways, there are giant scales for trucks to get a weight certificate to comply with various laws. How should these be tagged? How about:

Re: [Tagging] More tagging questions

2010-05-07 Thread Liz
On Sat, 8 May 2010, Craig Wallace wrote: barrier=bus_trap it's listed on the Key:barrier page, but without any description. Though I assume its for something like a bus trap, as described on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_trap they could be sump_buster - depends what the

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread Liz
On Sat, 15 May 2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: what if someone decides not to cut his grass? It would IMHO still be a garden. My grass is rarely cut (climatic reasons) and we have left the main grassed area to become /meadow/. It's not a garden now in any English term, and is a /yard/.

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread Liz
On Sat, 15 May 2010, Chris Hill wrote: You have animals grazing? Or perhaps you cut it for hay or silage? If not then it's just an unkempt garden, just letting the grass grow doesn't make it a meadow, except perhaps in pretentious gardening programmes :) I guess you assumed I lived in a

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread Liz
On Sat, 15 May 2010, Chris Hill wrote: No I didn't assume anything, except that what you have is land attached to a house. That is a garden. Green or not, maintained or not. Decked, paved or grassed, cultivated or not. A meadow is agricultural land. still wrong, the area under discussion

Re: [Tagging] wine roads in openstreetmap

2010-05-22 Thread Liz
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Valent Turkovic wrote: Hi, I see that there is a feature suggestion for adding wine roads on the map. How should that be done? Is tourism=wine_road ok? Should roads be added into a new relation? I see only that Slovenians are talking about this, but still there is no

Re: [Tagging] religion

2010-05-29 Thread Liz
On Sat, 29 May 2010, Cartinus wrote: By your reasoning we should not use religion=christian with denomination= either, but put whatever is in denomination= into religion=. No, a major belief system has subcategories. that's not a problem but I don't think that the items grouped as pagan are

Re: [Tagging] religion

2010-05-29 Thread Liz
On Sat, 29 May 2010, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: No, a major belief system has subcategories. that's not a problem but I don't think that the items grouped as pagan are subcategories of a major belief system called 'pagan

[Tagging] New Keys?

2010-06-01 Thread Liz
I photograph and then tag as many things as possible when out mapping. Today I was looking at a light industrial area http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_industry and there are no suitable tags for factories and workshops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workshop

Re: [Tagging] New Keys?

2010-06-01 Thread Liz
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Pieren wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: Are you talking about a landuse area, a building polygon, a site relation ? Pieren not landuse really because that wouldn't need a new Key, landuse=industrial would be a simple thing - a means

Re: [Tagging] New Keys?

2010-06-01 Thread Liz
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Roy Wallace wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: Option 1 Industrial=factory/workshop I don't like this key. To me, that reads this feature is an *industrial*, of type *factory*, or the *industrial* of this feature is a *factory*. Maybe

Re: [Tagging] New Keys?

2010-06-01 Thread Liz
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Do you suggest to add specific tags for factory components like assembly lines, soldering facilities, bottling plants, ...? This will become very extensive for all kind of factories that exist, but why not? Whatever is decided should be

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Orphanage

2010-06-02 Thread Liz
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, John Smith wrote: You'd use the length of stay, temporary or permanent to differentiate between them, although some could have facilities to handle both? no we have homes for children who are physically handicapped and live permanently in these facilities, about 5 or 6 kids

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Base transceiver station

2010-06-02 Thread Liz
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/6/2 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: I'm not sure if I should start a new thread for this, but John: shouldn't the node's role be tower, not transponder? i.e. the *relation* represents the transponder (hence type=transponder), but the

Re: [Tagging] Beauty parlour

2010-06-02 Thread Liz
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, pavithran wrote: Hi , I am looking for an appropriate tag for a place where women/girls go to get some facial/hair/eyebrows done . They are called beauty parlours . I could find something for hair dressers . But here I am looking for * Beauty fixes * sex=male/female

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Base transceiver station

2010-06-03 Thread Liz
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: if you see it in its historical context, it does look much more like a tower though: http://www.checkpoint-bravo.de/grafik/ausstellung.jpg It isn't a tower, but it functioned as a watchtower So is a tower in OSM going to be the form, or the

Re: [Tagging] route=fitness_trail

2010-06-14 Thread Liz
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, John Smith wrote: Some of the fitness equipment areas also have sign boards indicating how you can use them, playgrounds don't usually come with instructions. Found one at Glenelg in an unmarked park http://osm.org/go/uFw6q9Jp6- which is new with outdoor versions of

Re: [Tagging] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags?

2010-06-15 Thread Liz
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Liz wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, John Smith wrote: I think we would be better classifying things based on approximate air traffic per day, the number of run ways, and so no, alternatively we could just tag these things individually: air_traffic=1000 runways=10

Re: [Tagging] What's the proper way to map multiple rail tracks in a street?

2010-06-24 Thread Liz
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Nathan Edgars II wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.946466lon=-75.124744zoom=18layers=B 000FTF Cooper Street and Delaware Avenue are four-lane roads, with light rail/tram tracks in the outer lanes. Obviously one could simply apply railway=* to the highway, but

Re: [Tagging] Builders' Merchants - Timber Merchant

2010-06-24 Thread Liz
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Craig Wallace wrote: Industrial supplies is a more generic term, which can include builder's merchants, or timber yards, or agricultural supplies, or a variety of other industries. So a tag shop=industrial_supplies can cover all of these, plus an appropriate sub-tag to

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread Liz
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, pavithran wrote: Hi, I was very much surprised that a football ( the ball kicked by foot) which I tagged has shown a different ball in osmarendering . It is showing a ball used by american football . Some of the IRC discussion I had said that its 'ambiguous' though I

Re: [Tagging] [education] tag insttitute

2010-07-01 Thread Liz
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, pavithran wrote: On 15 June 2010 07:09, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com In fact I'd be tempted to call them a specialised college's and sub-tag from there. In India colleges are mostly (99 %) bound by academic regulation from higher education boards/

Re: [Tagging] Zone 30 (maxspeed)

2010-07-08 Thread Liz
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, John Smith wrote: On 8 July 2010 21:31, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote: I do not like the name conditions, by the way, because I think it does not cover the time aspect, but maybe that is just because I am not a native speaker. The name condition describes the

Re: [Tagging] What do others call this?

2010-07-26 Thread Liz
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Richard Mann wrote: winery: no such word in en_gb, we just use vineyard for the whole operation (though of course we don't do these things on the same scale as Australia). Unless you're going to distinguish between shop=winery and shop=vineyard, I'd use the more generic

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Liz
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Tobias Knerr wrote: There is no single appropriate categorization for all purposes. Therefore, categorization of features is a renderer decision and shouldn't be hardcoded into tagging. So I propose a new Key thing and we can put everything under thing. Let's never worry

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] emergency=*

2010-07-30 Thread Liz
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Toby Murray wrote: Then I guess a question would be would pharmacies be medical=pharmacy or remain shop=pharmacy? When I visited Holland (probably before you lot were born) the pharmacy sold only pharmaceuticals. It would be a medical=pharmacy. In Australia the

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-31 Thread Liz
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Dave F. wrote: In an emergency you don't give damn where that building is, just how quickly the ambulance can get to you. Emergency should be used for items that you need to find in an emergency. sorry, mate I don't agree I do need to know where that building is, and that

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-31 Thread Liz
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Dave F. wrote: Actually it does, it splits things away from let's dump everything in the amenity key space... There's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't cause a problem. I guess you have never tried to find a tag description on the wiki then. You will just have to

[Tagging] Road closed in wet weather

2010-08-01 Thread Liz
Before this list existed, the need for a dry_weather_only tag was disputed on talk. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/02/2970371.htm ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Shoulder and traffic indicator tags

2010-08-03 Thread Liz
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Anthony wrote: Is a 90km/h primary road safe bikeable? I know people who would be willing to ride a bicycle on a 55 mph primary road with no shoulder and one lane in each direction (not that I can think of such a road, other than maybe a few short bridges). Add in a

Re: [Tagging] Shoulder and traffic indicator tags

2010-08-03 Thread Liz
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Liz wrote: I can think of plenty and they are bicycle safe - even on the trunk road with a limit of 110kmh but they are not high traffic roads, crossing roads are few http://billiau.net/zoph/photo.php?photo_id=3182 That's on the Cobb Highway. Shoulder is not rideable

Re: [Tagging] What do others call this?

2010-08-09 Thread Liz
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:20:33 +0100, Richard Mann wrote: Most of these call themselves vineyards http://www.englishwineproducers.com/scvineyard.htm Do they actually have a vineyard on site? At least locally (US:OR), a winery can't call itself a

Re: [Tagging] Shoulder and traffic indicator tags

2010-08-09 Thread Liz
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Paul Johnson wrote: Why would this matter? I don't know Are there actually places where it's legal to operate off the hard surface when the road is paved? Yes 25 years ago in outback Queensland the tightfisted government of the gerrymander king, Joh Bjelke-Peteresen,

Re: [Tagging] Living streets in the United States

2010-08-09 Thread Liz
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Pieren wrote: From the wiki it looks like something smaller or more restricted than a regular residential street, but bigger than a driveway. It's not smaller, physically it's a residential street that is transformed to a living street. The difference is the very low

Re: [Tagging] What do others call this?

2010-08-09 Thread Liz
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Steve Bennett wrote: Wish there was an agriculture=* tag. Life could be simple: well living in an agricultural area I'd start with agriculture= rice wheat hops barley canola (modified rape seed CAnadaOiLa) grapes (subtypes table/wine or variety) citrus (subtypes needed)

Re: [Tagging] Mapping autonomous regions

2010-08-10 Thread Liz
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Paul Johnson wrote: We need to come up with a better way to map and tag autonomous regions, particularly in North America. The talk page for the boundary= suggests that an administrative boundary is not the right tag; and I couldn't disagree more. As a Cherokee, I find

Re: [Tagging] Non Proposed Features

2010-08-17 Thread Liz
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Cartinus wrote: Concluding less than six hours after your initial post to this mailinglist that nobody has a problem with what you propose is: youthfull exuberance ? impatience ? It is certainly is not the way to go. 6 hours isn't one rotation of the earth, and certainly

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Liz
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Tom Chance wrote: Just to help summarise, with these proposals we end up with: power=generator (the starting point) power_rating (to specify the watts generated) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power_rating power_source (to specify the fuel type / energy

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Liz
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Tom Chance wrote: I note that too many tags are one-offs with no consideration of where they fit in an organised set of tags. I've no idea what you mean. Could you explain? Example I need a tag for this item I'm standing next to. I'll call it amenity= Instead

Re: [Tagging] Permanent open air stage

2010-08-23 Thread Liz
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: I'm tagging my hometown and saw that Map features doesn't have any tag to mark open air stages. I know lot of open air stages are one time effort (for example, festivals), but there are lot of permanent ones (made of stone, wood, etc.), especially

Re: [Tagging] Another classification needed for minor urban/suburban collectors?

2010-08-23 Thread Liz
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Nathan Edgars II wrote: You will find residential roads in residental, commercial or industrial areas. This seems very wrong to me. Can I get input from others? you may. The categories have strange names and are used differently in different jurisdictions so I map

Re: [Tagging] Mapnik reender

2010-08-23 Thread Liz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, just.st...@lesve.org wrote: Claudius Henrichs wrote, On 2010-08-22 18:31: Am 22.08.2010 16:20, LeSve: How should I map a statue (Monument) so the reendering will se it. Specially in mapnik version. Maybe it is not possible ? /LeSve Depending on the

Re: [Tagging] craft= Proposal

2010-08-24 Thread Liz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Peter Körner wrote: Am 24.08.2010 10:43, schrieb Élisée Reclus: Am 24.08.2010 10:08, schrieb Peter Körner: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MaZderMind/Key:craft http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MaZderMind/DE:Key:craft Are artists, computer experts,

Re: [Tagging] ele-key for lakes / water bodies and glaciers

2010-08-24 Thread Liz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Elena of Valhalla wrote: on the way that marks the boundary of lakes etc. I would expect the ele key to tag the average height of the water surface, since that is what is constant on the whole lake I live in a land of drought and flooding rains (apologies to the poet). So

Re: [Tagging] ele-key for lakes / water bodies and glaciers

2010-08-24 Thread Liz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Elena of Valhalla wrote: but is the bottom of such lakes a flat surface with a constant elevation? if it isn't, such a value wouldn't be meaningful as well on some it is eg Lake Cargelligo is almost flat at the bottom - I've seen it empty and others are obviously not

Re: [Tagging] sidewalks

2010-08-30 Thread Liz
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Anthony wrote: Grass is a legitimate surface for a footway. That doesn't mean that all grass is part of a footway, any more than all asphalt is part of a road. This is very cultural. Au city situation The part of the Road Reserve which is between the property boundary of

Re: [Tagging] No proposal labeling

2010-08-30 Thread Liz
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Matthias Meißer wrote: Sry I don't understand your point. If you limit a sports shop saying sports=football it is clear that he spots on football related things only, right? well that would be four different sports covered immediately in Australia

Re: [Tagging] sidewalks

2010-08-31 Thread Liz
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: yes, you can see that arthur st/wastell ct. in the east has an informal footway (the one of the link I modified from yours), in the west it hasn't. You can also see it on the nearmap aerial (even though it is a bit hard to see it because it hides

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Homeless Shelter

2010-09-04 Thread Liz
On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, Sean Horgan wrote: Thanks for the reply John. I found this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Shelter, but this seems specific to recreation. You could place a tag on the homeless_shelter to cover the demographic served, i.e. women, children, etc. i

Re: [Tagging] inconsistencies in bridge

2010-09-27 Thread Liz
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:39:53 +0200 Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote: That's one thing I've never really understood with railway=abandoned either. Sure, many of them have been converted into might fine cycleways, but that's just what they are now: cycleways. You can abandon a railway and still