Am Mo., 28. Nov. 2022 um 13:13 Uhr schrieb riiga :
> With the approval of the crossing:markings=* proposal there is now a
> satisfactory way of tagging whether a crossing is marked or not
> regardless of the crossing being uncontrolled or having traffic signals.
> For signals, there is
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> On 20 Nov 2022, at 02:27, Matija Nalis
> wrote:
>
> Because, someone has to do that summarizing work for extra channels to make
> sense, and it is IMHO only fair that would
> be proposal author (expecting that EVERYBODY will do that SAME task is both
> extremely
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> On 18 Nov 2022, at 22:56, Mike Thompson wrote:
>
>> Energy and power are used quite interchangeably and power is the better word
>> for it.
>>
>
> What evidence do you have that is the case? What is being provided is
> energy, not power.
maybe we can agree they
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> On 18 Nov 2022, at 22:35, Mike Thompson wrote:
>
> In a nearby city to where I live, the city owned utility provides
> electricity, water, sewer, and internet.
yes, it is also common in areas I know to have a single provider for water,
sewer, waste disposal and even
maybe these can be seen as
amenity=social_facility?
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> On 10 Nov 2022, at 21:24, Sven Geggus wrote:
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> Which is just plain wrong as they are not _only_.
you could have the sports centre and the camp site overlap, this way it
wouldn’t be _only_
A site relation doesn’t magically solve the uncertainty of exclusive vs. shared
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> On 10 Nov 2022, at 21:21, Sven Geggus wrote:
> All the sites in the above changeset would need one or more additional
> redundant tags like restaurant=yes on the main node or way if a site
> relation is no longer an option.
so a restaurant is part of the camp site, but
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> On 10 Nov 2022, at 12:31, Yves via Tagging wrote:
>
> Site relations are often used to models thing that aren't spatially joined,
> like windfarms, universities...
> I can easily imagine it's reasonable to use them for campings in some corner
> cases where a single area
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> On 7 Nov 2022, at 12:21, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
>
> deprecating site_type has chance of being a good idea
I don’t think so, it is defacto one of the tags used to further specify
historic=archaeological_site and moving away from it is on the same level
old style:
https://www.scattidigusto.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Yaluz-chiosco-mercato-Garbatella-Roma.jpg
even older but different structure (single building):
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J5az9ofXSIQ/UVgQRJwwenI/wu8/vFdrpK5JwC0/s1600/roma-farmers-market-testaccio.jpg
new style
radical
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> On 8 Nov 2022, at 08:15, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
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> I mapped some of similar shop=greengrocer (assigned space on tables) with
> shop=greengrocer street_vendor=yes
>
> Outside their operating hours you will just see empty tables with roofs over
> them
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> On 8 Nov 2022, at 08:17, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
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> Having tag name that clearly excludes freshwater water rescue and changing it
> in description is highly confusing and I would prefer to avoid it if at all
> possible.
exactly, it does not work and
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> On 7 Nov 2022, at 20:57, Volker Schmidt wrote:
>
> If we really don't have one already, it might be worth looking at how to map
> stalls in general as I cudl see a lot of similarities.
I mapped some of them with shop tags, e.g. shop=butcher shop=greengrocer
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> On 6 Nov 2022, at 12:34, m...@marcos-martinez.net wrote:
>
> Regarding standardization: First of all, I hope we all work on the basis that
> we want to improve things. Can you move a ton of sand with a spoon?
thing is, we don’t have just a heap of sand, we have hundreds
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> On 6 Nov 2022, at 01:13, Robin Burek wrote:
>
> And what do you say to the result of 41 : 9 ? That is not a "consensus"? Then
> why is healtcare also considered approved? Ah well, maybe because it is an
> approved proposal and therefore the "consensus" for OSM. We can
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> On 4 Nov 2022, at 13:17, Marc_marc wrote:
>
> our "sister" project (wikipedia) has no problem defining what is an anecdote
> and what is "relevance from a historic viewpoint",
> I don't see why we should have any issue doing it.
Mappers are working fundamentally
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> On 4 Nov 2022, at 08:21, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Using a tag for things other than the common meaning of that word (or word
> group) is simply confusing and should be avoided.
I may be misguided, but from reading dictionaries it seems to me that the
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> On 3 Nov 2022, at 14:39, Sarah Hoffmann via Tagging
> wrote:
>
> Random example: historic=manor. About 77% of objects tagged with
> historic=manor have a building=* tag, which makes perfect sense. A manor
> is a building after all. So it looks like historic=manor is more
Is there already a proposal and or established method for escaping semicolons
in tag values? Like \; or ;;?
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> On 29 Oct 2022, at 00:42, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> Is the water in your "drinking fountains" chilled, or is it just the natural
> temperature of the water coming out?
there are a few “machines” that distribute chilled and carbon dioxide enriched
water for a few
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> On 28 Oct 2022, at 10:46, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
> I do not like the aggressiveness in this comment of yours;
I am sorry I wrote it like this, and agree it was not nice. Please accept my
apologies.
Cheers Martin
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> On 28 Oct 2022, at 09:58, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> While I could be interested in whether the flow of a fountain might be
> stopped or not, I'm not really interested in how I'd have to do that: I can
> just go to the fountain and observe what I find.
I
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> On 28 Oct 2022, at 09:58, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
> Actuator definitely provides more information and implicitly defines tap=yes.
actuator was not proposed so far, handle was, and while it is documented, it
doesn’t seem particularly helpful looking at the
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> On 27 Oct 2022, at 18:50, Matija Nalis
> wrote:
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> instead of ad-hoc inventing
> new undocumented key without discussion...
there was a discussion about this, tap was seen as a distinguishing property
that is yet missing. Handle is similar but not the same (handle is
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> On 27 Oct 2022, at 08:33, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Water is usually scarce in Australia, all blubbers/drinking_fountains are
> controlled.
sure, I did understand this, that’s why we should not generalize, the situation
is different in different places.
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> On 26 Oct 2022, at 21:29, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> Drinking fountains are switch or knob operated and shoot at an angle.
these are assumptions based on your experiences that don’t hold true around
here, most drinking fountains have continuous flow.
By the way, I started
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> On 23 Oct 2022, at 22:15, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
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> personally it seems to me that it has chance of being a good idea
which one, deprecating site_type or ignoring the „rejection“ of the voting?
Cheers Martin
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> On 23 Oct 2022, at 02:03, wolfy1339 via Tagging
> wrote:
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> Here's a picture for reference,
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/CanadaPostCommunityMailboxes15.jpg
for this kind, informal=yes should not be added, obviously
This looks pretty official
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> On 22 Oct 2022, at 12:47, Anne-Karoline Distel wrote:
>
> Following the rejection of the crannog proposal with the concern about
> the hierarchy above the proposed tag, I now propose to change the key
> from site_type to archaeological_type
such a retagging would be a
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> On 22 Oct 2022, at 14:16, Marc_marc wrote:
>
> it's also a real amenity=post_box ? as a tourist, I can find this box
> on the postal operator's website and put my letter there?
> or is it just a habit that people also put the outbound there ?
if it works reliably, it
today I noticed some minor historic ruins and wonder whether you would consider
this an archaeological site?
https://twitter.com/dieterdreist/status/1582130246769610753?s=46=pMmPcybaZu9zOoWBrbE_Eg
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> On 17 Oct 2022, at 20:30, Anne-Karoline Distel wrote:
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> Not in reply to this specific email, but I've done a bit of tidying
> amonst keys and values the last three days, and I've documented some of
> my findings which might give food for thought:
>
>
Am Mo., 17. Okt. 2022 um 10:09 Uhr schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
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> Oct 16, 2022, 17:30 by annekadis...@web.de:Is there a way to
>
> implement a warning into the editors not to combine
> "archaeological_site" with dinosaurs? I will replace the few I found
>
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> On 16 Oct 2022, at 18:05, Volker Schmidt wrote:
>
> Do you have a feeling how many "archeologic" sites in OSM are in reality
> palaeontological? I fear this is a frequent error, but difficult to spot.
It doesn’t seem a huge problem, but even if this was widespread my
Am So., 16. Okt. 2022 um 17:33 Uhr schrieb Anne-Karoline Distel <
annekadis...@web.de>:
> I've come across a few dinosaur footprints, but that is not archaeology,
> because archaeology is about man made structures. Is there a way to
> implement a warning into the editors not to combine
>
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> On 15 Oct 2022, at 10:08, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The flow of water is downwards making them difficult to drink from without an
> aid e.g. a cup.
while it may be true, you have to acknowledge that there are many places in the
world that are providing
Am Fr., 14. Okt. 2022 um 12:10 Uhr schrieb Davidoskky via Tagging <
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> This other fountain doesn't have such wall, thus it is not decorative
> and it cannot be tagged as amenity=fountain (assuming we disregard the
> recreational utility mentioned in the wiki).
>
>
Am Fr., 14. Okt. 2022 um 10:22 Uhr schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>:
>
> On 14/10/22 06:27, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > It seems we are seeing different things, I can’t help if you cannot
> > recognize that the fountain is
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> On 13 Oct 2022, at 21:50, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
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> Field is landuse=farmland - also when zoned as industrial area or scheduled
> for
> residential construction.
interestingly not. I never found this particularly logical, but this situation
is
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> On 13 Oct 2022, at 18:35, Davidoskky wrote:
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> It is currently tagged as natural=spring, which it clearly is not since it is
> not a natural formation and it is way too low altitude to be a spring anyway.
ask the mapper who put it, maybe they have more information. If
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> On 13 Oct 2022, at 18:25, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> It is an old fountain, maybe 100/200 years old, but I don't see how that
> could be defined as historic since it has no historic importance, it's just
> an old fountain.
>
maybe I am using the word historic
Am Do., 13. Okt. 2022 um 11:55 Uhr schrieb Martin Fischer :
> Sidenote: I am curious how many subscribers the mailing lists each have.
> I'd expect tagging@ to have more subscribers than talk@ but that's just
> a hunch.
I see the potential users less amongst those who already participate here,
Am Do., 13. Okt. 2022 um 10:52 Uhr schrieb Martin Fischer :
> Hi everybody,
>
> I wrote two small MediaWiki extensions for wiki.openstreetmap.org: one
> to let you log in via your OSM account and one to provide an easy to use
> in-wiki GUI for proposal voting.
>
> I also set up a small demo wiki
Am Mi., 12. Okt. 2022 um 20:00 Uhr schrieb Evan Carroll :
>
> This is all 100% new to me. Where is it documented that a "shop" in a
> detached house should be mapped as a detached house, and not a shop?
>
please do not try to create confusion bvy shortening things. There are 2
entities to be
Am Mi., 12. Okt. 2022 um 17:43 Uhr schrieb Evan Carroll :
> Some neighborhoods have signs with names, which is great
> because you can add value with the name.
use place=neighbourhood for these names if they are referring to something
bigger than a contiguos property. When you add names to
Am Mi., 12. Okt. 2022 um 16:25 Uhr schrieb Greg Troxel :
> Part of the issue is that landuse should more or less follow property
> lines, unless there is some reason why not.
I would generally agree with this
> a several-acre parcel with
> a house and some trees is still
Am Mi., 12. Okt. 2022 um 17:46 Uhr schrieb Evan Carroll :
> Landuse has nothing to do with local authorities or zoning.
+1
However, as-is unnamed
> developed landuse is a function of the buildings inside.
>
not necessarily, it is about the whole land that has the tag, it could also
be land
Am Mi., 12. Okt. 2022 um 16:19 Uhr schrieb Marc_marc :
> On 12/10/2022 09:34, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
> >> we do not need the historic key to be “approved”,
>
> you don't need please do not speak for others,
it was a way if saying; "the history key cannot be
Am Mi., 12. Okt. 2022 um 12:03 Uhr schrieb martianfreeloader <
martianfreeloa...@posteo.net>:
> So then what's the point of approving tags anyways?
there is not much sense in the act of "approving", the meaningful part has
happened before, the main benefit lies in the process, improving the
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 11:39, Illia Marchenko wrote:
>
> Of course. Hierarchical tagging. leisure = pitch & sport = *.
or leisure=swimming_pool, track, golf_course, fitness_centre, sports_centre,
climbing, mtb routes, landuse=recreation_ground, piste=* etc
The situation
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> On 10 Oct 2022, at 19:58, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> tap=* and water_tap=* are currently being used to tag the presence of a water
> tap in a building.
>
> tap=* is used in Dominican Republic and the values used are "yes", "no" or
> the number of water taps
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> On 12 Oct 2022, at 07:11, Evan Carroll wrote:
>
> Let's say you're in an industrial zone: do you tag as such
> (landuse=industrial) if half of the buildings have been converted to lofts?
I would see landuse=residential on the parcels where people live and
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> On 12 Oct 2022, at 04:39, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> I would love to be able to move the vast majority of military= to
> historic=military, as they are no longer military installations.
>
> Yes, they certainly were, but they aren't any more.
are all military tags
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 17:32, martianfreeloader
> wrote:
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> Nobody commented during RFC and then everybody voted against; which is not
> nice. I was one of them.
particularly because the no vote didn’t offer any meaningful contribution, the
only reason given was a
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 15:37, martianfreeloader
> wrote:
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> Do you have a suggestion how to fix this?
it is not broken, unless your proposal gets approved
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 21:45, Evan Carroll wrote:
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> If there is no name, what is the value?
it is a property that helps understanding how an area is structured. If there
is a name you should use “place”
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 21:45, Evan Carroll wrote:
>
> No value. There is no reason to call neighboring w1101484649 "Commercial
> Zone". Why is a car wash and a vet commercial, and the gas station is retail?
this seems completely in line with what I would expect for
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 13:30, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> How would you tag this fountain I photographed the other day?
>
> The water is not potable, the stream of water cannot be interrupted and
> definitely is not a decorative fountain.
>
>
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 13:30, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> If I have a fountain that is not decorative, doesn't have a tap and doesn't
> provide drinking water, this fountain cannot be tagged.
why are you sure it is a fountain? And what has it to do with it having a
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 13:30, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> This is problematic, since if you only tag amenity=fountain it will fall back
> to a decorative fountain since amenity=fountain appears to be defined in that
> way.
those fountains that supply drinking
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 12:06, Davidoskky wrote:
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> I do agree, and that is also my objective; but I do like the idea of having a
> very generic value you can fall back to when no other value applies.
I don’t like the idea, because it will only slow down development of
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 12:06, Davidoskky wrote:
>
> Some are indistinguishable from drinking fountains, some have drinking water
> and can be used to wash clothes as well.
all drinking fountains can be used to wash clothes, although it may not be
legal in some instances,
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 11:30, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> Nobody is tagging the specific model type, such as distinguishing nasone from
> the 1960s and nasone from the 1990s.
>
> Should we introduce another key for the style and then tag the specific model
> of the
Am Mo., 10. Okt. 2022 um 17:33 Uhr schrieb Illia Marchenko <
illiamarchenk...@gmail.com>:
> Unification of tags allows more simple usage source data, e.g leisure =
> pitch allows rendering of all pitches, but lots of tags as
> leisure=tennis_court, leisure = baseball_playground, leisure =
>
Am Di., 11. Okt. 2022 um 10:24 Uhr schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging@openstreetmap.org>:
>
> Is it possible that drinking fountain in a given style has multiple models?
>
absolutely yes.
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Am Mo., 10. Okt. 2022 um 09:53 Uhr schrieb Davidoskky via Tagging <
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> I do not believe
> anymore that man_made=water_tap should be deprecated but rather
> redefined to only describe the tap of a fountain and not the whole
> fountain.
>
this is not a redefinition, it
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> On 10 Oct 2022, at 12:07, Michael Brandtner wrote:
>
> The proposal includes advice to only use this tag in shops that don't accept
> all denominations
in Italy, one and two cent coins have been abolished, they are not accepted any
more in shops, and while prices are
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> On 10 Oct 2022, at 15:34, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Do we tag
>
> the waste receptacle
>
> or
>
> the tap
>
> or
>
> the drinking fountain
>
> ?? Which is the feature primarily there for? To me that is the drinking
> fountain. I'd leave out the tap
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> On 10 Oct 2022, at 09:12, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> I like this, but I'd remove amenity=drinking_water rather than
> drinking_water=yes, because you _should_ add the tag amenity=fountain.
this would be completely inconsistent with the usage of the
I see the wiki yesterday has received some more question marks regarding
distinction of water taps and drinking fountains, claiming that the drinking
fountain tag has fewer usage as the water tap and “many fountains also qualify
for the water tap tag”.
IMHO this is the result of loosing focus.
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 23:21, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
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> I started this thread to confirm/reject listing
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Bubbler.jpg as
> man_made=water_tap
> fountain=bubbler
> drinking_water=yes
> amenity=drinking_water
replace
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 23:21, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
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> Which one?
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Water_flowing_from_drinking_water_tap.jpg
> ?
yes, this one is not very clear, although the sticker they added makes it clear
it is fine for
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> On 10 Oct 2022, at 01:31, stevea wrote:
>
> I suppose somebody figured "well, the drainage is good" (or even improved,
> as here with a grate to a wastewater system, apparently)
yes, these are always connected via a grate with the sewers
> and "well, it doesn't make
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 23:26, Marc_marc wrote:
>
> but it's certainly not forbidden to pay for 500€ with a 500€ note,
> even though some shops refuse to let you do so
I heard it was forbidden in this case not to accept the 500 bill as it is legal
tender
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> On 10 Oct 2022, at 00:15, stevea wrote:
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> If this water is potable, it's amenity=drinking_water.
yes, it is potable, and if you look closely you’ll notice that the tube has an
upper hole, so when you tap the flow it will create a vertical spout in the
curve, so
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 23:40, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
>
> As an American, I would not consider "fontanella bolsena"
> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Fontanella_Bolsena.jpg) to be a
> drinking fountain, it appears to be a public drinking water "tap" (though in
>
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 23:14, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
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> If yes - why
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Water_flowing_from_drinking_water_tap.jpg
> would not be a water fountain?
looking again at this, it really is a poor construction and will not
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 23:14, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
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> Or lets take
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Fontanella_Bolsena.jpg
> illustrating fountain=drinking and seemingly without upward flow:
> is it a drinking fountain?
IMHO yes, it is near a
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 22:56, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
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> Let me know if this edit was right or wrong (I am quite confused here,
> and this is why I want to document this to make situation less confusing).
IMHO saying it _is_ a water tap is confusing, I’d say
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 22:56, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
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> As the next part of drinking water linguistic journey I documented at
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_tap#Examples
> (bottom example) that bubblers are mostly water taps,
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 22:01, m.brandt...@posteo.de wrote:
>
> voting has started for the proposal Payment denominations.
question: is it legal in the EU not to accept certain types of Euronotes?
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> [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MUTCD-CA_PS-013.svg
> [3] https://forms.iapmo.org/email_marketing/codespotlight/2017/Aug3.htm
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 08:43, stevea wrote:
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> Tags must capture these differences, and more.
and ideally they should do it in a way to reduce confusion
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> On 9 Oct 2022, at 08:50, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'll be voting no.
me too, it is trying to deprecate a handful of tags I am using for fountain
classification. Why do people have to “deprecate” other people’s tags when they
introduce new ones with
Am Sa., 8. Okt. 2022 um 19:26 Uhr schrieb michael spreng (datendelphin) <
m...@osm.datendelphin.net>:
> - It seems we have more specific terms in German for fountains.
>Springbrunnen, Laufbrunnen, Brunnen... it confuses that in English,
>everything is mapped to the same term (I'm not a
Am Sa., 8. Okt. 2022 um 16:04 Uhr schrieb Davidoskky :
> > That’s why we decided some years ago to record additional detail about
> the structure in the fountain tag.
> I wish to add more sense to how these structures are described. The
> current tagging scheme has a lot of problems with
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> On 8 Oct 2022, at 14:23, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> It feels strange to me that the same exact structure might belong to three
> different primary tags according to whether the water provided is potable or
> not or if animals can use it or not.
this is the
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> On 8 Oct 2022, at 12:43, Enno Hermann wrote:
>
> It does not make sense to me to use different tags for the same kind of
> feature, so I generally use amenity=fountain for these with appropriate
> subtags.
it’s not the same kind of feature if the water is drinkable in
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> On 8 Oct 2022, at 12:43, Enno Hermann wrote:
>
> One thing I keep wondering about on this topic is how to tag very simple
> fountains that are widespread in Switzerland along hiking paths
> (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adlisberg_-_Gockhausen_IMG_4215.jpg)
>
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> On 8 Oct 2022, at 07:55, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Example Tom Bass Wall Fountain, Sydney, Australia 1963. Nicknamed "The
> Urinal" for obvious reasons!
according to a british mapper, this is not a fountain but a water feature 路♂️
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> On 8 Oct 2022, at 06:43, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I note that settlements are already on the values for the key historic, e.g
> farm, manor, monastery, castle ... all places where people lived.
none of these are necessarily settlements on their own
Am Fr., 7. Okt. 2022 um 13:46 Uhr schrieb ael :
> Maybe. I guess that if I was starting from scratch, I might have a
> general tag of water_feature and find choose suitable values to describe
> these things.
then I am happy we do not start from scratch :)
There are so many different kind of
so basically you call a "fountain" what we call in German a "Fontaine", or
"Springbrunnen", and what could be more specifically called a "waterspout
fountain" in English, i.e. a structure where water is blasted into the air,
and have no word for all the sculptural fountains that don't jet water in
who cares for "in use" or "approved", the question is only whether there
are alternative tags available, in which case you either have to decide or
put both.
The voting isn't binding, at most it could be relevant if there is an
alternative value for the same key.
So while this could be seen as a
I would be interested to learn how you would call them, if "fountain" is
not the correct term. Also I would like to add another example and ask
whether that's a fountain for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevi_Fountain
(don't let the name irritate you, just by looking at the thing).
Cheers,
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> On 7 Oct 2022, at 01:09, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> For example, man_made=water_tap cannot coexist with
> man_made=drinking_fountain thus, in the wiki it currently advises to tag a
> water fountain that has a tap as man_made=water_tap drinking_fountain=yes.
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> On 6 Oct 2022, at 14:00, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> For example a public tap where you can wash clothes, which I guess you could
> tag as amenity=fountain, drinking_water=no but that does not differentiate it
> from a decorative fountain.
>
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> On 6 Oct 2022, at 14:00, Davidoskky via Tagging
> wrote:
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> I feel that man_made=water_tap is quite useless in this regard and might very
> well be substituted for a tap=yes secondary value.
these are 2 completely different things, one is a feature and one is a
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> On 6 Oct 2022, at 11:41, ael via Tagging wrote:
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> Definitely not a fountain.
>
> These all in British English.
these all fountains in German and Italian, basically any sculpture with water
around it or emerging from it is a fountain, particularly if the water is in
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> On 5 Oct 2022, at 15:26, Jass Kurn wrote:
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> When it should be, as a suggestion, drinking_water:type=bubbler, or
> drinking_water:type=bottle_refill.
these tags are misleading, you are not describing drinking water, hence it is
not a suitable approach IMHO.
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