On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.com wrote:
I disagree with the statement A ranger station is generally the first and
primary spot for visitors. that just appeared on the page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dranger_station
On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
The tag would probably have been better expressed as
amenity=park_visitor_center or amenity=park_hq.
couldn’t find those on the wiki.
Visitor’s center is some kind of information tag, and park HQ might be some
form
On Mar 5, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/03/2015 11:03 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
But what we really need is:
paving_stone:geometry=
paving_stone:concrete:grain_size=
paving_stone:spectral_reflectance_curves=
paving_stone:manufacturing_date=
+1
Now
we should be able to map the icon to a generic tag, such as amenity=camp_office
or something, or map the more private “ranger_station” facilities in another
matter, and leave amenity=ranger_station to these more public facing facilities
that people are looking for.
The name “ranger station”
On Mar 5, 2015, at 12:08 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote:
On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:03 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org
mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org wrote:
Maybe someone can confirm this, but I think it might
I originally proposed landuse=civic, and after feedback, I decided to narrow
the focus of the value, and rewrote a majority of the proposal, with clearer
explanations of purpose, narrower focus, and a section on limitations of use.
Please read the proposal (I think it’s shorter now) and let me
On Mar 3, 2015, at 12:10 PM, David Bannon dban...@internode.on.net wrote:
On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 10:44 +0900, John Willis wrote:
There are all kinds of buildings we map that are completely private (houses,
for example), yet are visible from publicly accessible places.
OK, so perhaps we
I read the wiki entry on steps
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dsteps
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=steps) and the discussion
page,
and besides the discussion on which direction means uphill (that really needs
to be decided), I had another big question -
I’m trying to tag businesses in Japan, and 2 common sports businesses I have
seen are Golf Driving Ranges - giant netted monstrosities that are everywhere
all over Japan. I mean everywhere - there are tons of them. They are not part
of a golf course, just a stand-alone business on a hill, in
On Feb 22, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Jan van Bekkum jan.vanbek...@gmail.com wrote:
You never can do it fully correct:
The breakfast restaurant in a two-star hotel just for residents is an amenity
A restaurant in a five-star hotel has to be present to qualify the for five
stars, just like a gym,
On Feb 20, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/02/2015 1:22 PM, johnw wrote:
I think he’s trying to say that “a storage amenity” is different from a
parking amenity”, because it is not something you would seek out on the map
when looking for parking (even long
I think it should be k kept under attraction, because a large mappable maze is
certainly an interest of tourists - especially if it is part of a larger
complex.
Then it would be
tourism=attraction
attraction=maze
maze=hedge
or attraction:maze=hedge instead of attraction=maze + maze=hedge
I think he’s trying to say that “a storage amenity” is different from a
parking amenity”, because it is not something you would seek out on the map
when looking for parking (even long term airport parking, i think) - but rather
something you’d seek out when looking for a storage facility for
On Feb 19, 2015, at 7:51 AM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote:
Your words 'dangerous' immediately brought to mind ...
There is an 'adult' playground in Manash, South Australia ... there have been
a number of adult deaths there
..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash,_South_Australia
On Feb 19, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
If it's of interest to outsiders it seems like an attraction. Thus how about:
tourism=attraction
attraction:type=maze
name=Happy Tunnel Kiddie Maze
website=http://maze.example.org/ http://maze.example.org/
What
On Feb 19, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.com wrote:
Seeing as a maze is not an attraction for me, I would prefer the first
option.
Moreover, I would have assumed attraction was a subkey of tourism=attraction
but apparently it is not. There are many uses of
On Feb 13, 2015, at 11:51 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2015-01-03 16:28 GMT+01:00 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com
mailto:jan...@gmail.com:
Landuse=religious AFAIK started being used for land that is owned by a
religious entity, and in it there would be
On Feb 6, 2015, at 8:03 PM, Kotya Karapetyan kotya.li...@gmail.com wrote:
1) +1 to drop Kelvins.
2) heated/cooled is a nice idea, but I wouldn't like seeing too many
top level tags.
Danger-cold
cold
cool
mild
warm
hot
danger-hot
I don’t think is unreasonable if we’re going to have
Danger-cold
cold
cool
mild
warm
hot
danger-hot
But first temperature=
But first temperature= ... the rest can come later as required.
gotcha - those 7 qualitative tags should be included, besides numerical values
expressed in C.
You are correct, the method, variability, and
tepid and mild are synonyms, so tepid should cover mild in that way. usually
tepid is for liquids, and mild is for air / weather, when it comes to
temperature, AFAIK.
Is ambient is for the ambient air/weather, ambient ground temp, or ambient
material temperature? the ambient temperature of
Maybe there is a need for something like… a tag for office=* which may cover
the different public or employee facing building types
where the common facilities you would find in each category would be taggable,
so you can tag a point or a building as certain types of facilities.
On Feb 6, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
This seems to have a bit of overlap with information to a large extent. Most
have tourism information for the area they're located and vicinity and can
provide a lot of the same stuff as a general tourism information
begin rant
I also think Americans, and I am one, need to get over the use of degrees F
and the old inch/foot/mile system. It's stupid and anachronistic to base the
units of length on the length of the king's thumb, or whatever. Continuing
to make exceptions for them is only perpetuating
I did a major update on my proposal regarding the mapping of traffic signals.
As per the talk pageI’d like you to consider including (and documenting in the
proposal) rendering the name=* of the “signal” in this situation, as the
relation encompasses the entire set of signals - which in
On Jan 31, 2015, at 4:29 PM, ross i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
Had thought about this myself as we also tend to look for camps with kitchens.
So on a tourism=camp_site or tourism=caravan_site node or way
What about on the building that is the kitchen in the camp? (so the building is
On Jan 30, 2015, at 6:51 PM, althio althio.fo...@gmail.com wrote:
John Willis jo...@mac.com wrote:
Substance=gas
Substance:detailed:multiphase_gas
Substance:state=multi
That is not coherent. Do you mean that (substance=gas) is for mainly
gas or gas-only?
If it is gas only
On Jan 29, 2015, at 3:57 AM, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote:
2015-01-28 18:52 GMT+00:00 Eric SIBERT courr...@eric.sibert.fr:
I started modifying the wiki following our recent discussion.
For cuisine=*, I added:
May also apply to other services that deliver food, like convenience.
On Jan 28, 2015, at 8:01 PM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh.. 'multiphase' is a mixture of gas, fuel and water as it comes out of some
well heads
if this is the proper term used for pipelines, then this would be the right
one,
Otherwise, =multi (like sports) would be the best.
61sundow...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/01/2015 12:44 PM, johnw wrote:
Or does this go back to it should be shop:jewelry=watches or shop=jewelry
+ jewelry=watches problem?
Javbw
If so, then lets try to decide on a flat or categorized system that can
handle new additions without a lot
On Jan 26, 2015, at 4:49 AM, Vincent Pottier vpott...@gmail.com wrote:
dedication
+1
If we’re going to make something that goes with the religion tag, we might want
to make it more universal.
There are different shrines for different kinds of buddhas, Different various
shinto gods, and
If watch(es) is the best description for a store (as it may just be a watch
retail sales shop - no repair or other jewelry) - then what is the problem for
creating a shop=* tag for it? There will be a ton of shop=* tags eventually -
especially as the world is filled with speciality shops that
On Jan 24, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
On 1/23/15 8:37 PM, Warin wrote:
Yes .. it makes the admin more complex. But it will get some to say
something, and get others off the group. Flame away.
i do not think it appropriate for the membership of this
I have one last case: some low profile bridge (without parapet) may be
submerged after heavy rain but may be still usable if water depth above the
bridge in not too high. How to tag this?
I was going to ask this - as most of the fords in Southern California are only
made for
On Jan 16, 2015, at 6:22 AM, David Bannon dban...@internode.on.net wrote:
On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 18:07 +0100, Michał Brzozowski wrote:
Some people in Poland (the ones who never browse community forums)
maniacally tag every dirt road as highway=track, even if it should be
Some part of road have
concrete parts that are flood_prone during cyclone.
How can we (or not) extend it to roads?
access:conditional = no @ flood
I'm using flood_prone=yes. With surface=concrete.
But I was looking for some method to unify intermittent aspects of rivers and
On Jan 20, 2015, at 8:38 AM, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote:
Some part of road have
concrete parts that are flood_prone during cyclone.
How can we (or not) extend it to roads?
access:conditional = no @ flood
I'm using flood_prone=yes. With surface=concrete.
But I was looking for some
as far as I am aware, a wash, an arroyo, and a wadi are functionally the same.
It is mostly a separation of language - where the words wash, arroyo, and wadi
are basically the same functional thing, however Wadi and arroyo, in some
regions, also have a wider definition that includes other
On Jan 15, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Christoph Hormann chris_horm...@gmx.de wrote:
On Thursday 15 January 2015, johnw wrote:
A wadi is a place where flash floods occur. It is not an intermittent
river - it isn’t really seasonally wet, and doesn’t provide any real
expectation that water
...@gmx.de
mailto:chris_horm...@gmx.de wrote:
On Thursday 15 January 2015, johnw wrote:
A wadi is a place where flash floods occur. It is not an intermittent
river - it isn’t really seasonally wet, and doesn’t provide any real
expectation that water will be present (except deep
I’m a newcomer, and somewhat of a noob, But I’ll take a crack at it.:
** We are drawing existence, and tagging purpose, usage, and metadata - with
a varying balance of importance between those 3 things. **
There are some caveats - it needs to stay put for a long time, and it needs to
be
On Jan 15, 2015, at 8:33 PM, Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com wrote:
4 lane ‘tertiary road that handles 5 times the vehicle traffic, traveling
on to connect with 2 major trunk roads -
intersects the narrow two lane “secondary road” that is one of the small
roads coming down
On Jan 15, 2015, at 8:43 PM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote:
2015-01-15 12:23 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me
mailto:and...@shadura.me:
On 15 January 2015 at 03:02, johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com
wrote:
The proposal seems to be a good solution to this problem
I strongly disagree. A wadi is usually only an active river through very rare
flash flood events, and almost never any other time. Entire biomes are defined
by the presence of (and situated in) a wadi.
In america, the words Arroyo and wash roughly translate into wadi, and because
of the
That’s really interesting. I had no idea there were locations with more than 1
commonly used address.
The proposal seems to be a good solution to this problem.
Javbw
On Jan 15, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote:
usefulness of term wadi. I am disputing usefulness
of waterway=wadi tag due to lack on any agreed definition and description on
OSM wiki.
2015-01-15 3:41 GMT+01:00 johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com:
I strongly disagree. A wadi is usually only an active river through very rare
flash
SomeoneElse wrote on 2015-01-08 23:28:
Would you see an OSM-relevant difference between them, or could they go with
the
same multi(faith) value?
tom
Multi seems to be the right value. the definition on the wiki should reference
those other fancier words so there is no confusion.
On Jan 8, 2015, at 11:11 PM, Tom Pfeifer t.pfei...@computer.org wrote:
No value has been documented so far for rooms dedicated for worshipping
without being limited to a specific religion.
My favourite would be multi as is is concise and also used in sport=multi,
The exact word is
On Jan 7, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote:
On 07.01.2015 04:55, John Willis wrote:
What's the difference between an alley and a motorway besides width?
A motorway starts with a motorway sign, at least in central Europe.
As with everything in OSM - It’s based on
On Jan 7, 2015, at 8:29 AM, Tom Pfeifer t.pfei...@computer.org wrote:
A while ago I had identified the following use-cases / situations,
which I now extend and my preferred tagging to them.
+1
All sounds logical to me. Just a fountain at the mall, or car parking, or the
building where
On Jan 3, 2015, at 7:35 PM, Andreas Goss andi...@t-online.de wrote:
this is just a polygon around a church yard, with the rest of the buildings
and amenities inside.
EXCEPT it does NOT say church yard but religious landuse.
So this is how I would use this tag:
On Jan 4, 2015, at 1:38 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
The situation in India could mean that a congregation was meeting on that
site, and planned to construct a building there, but had not yet done so.
Eventually landuse=religious, unless you are a member of the
The only civilian airport within my prefecture - the only one for 2 hours of
driving - is a public heliport. It would be nice if it would get named below
z13. the name disappears after that. but maybe that has to do with label
priority of the tagged stuff on the heliport grounds. I don’t know.
On Jan 3, 2015, at 3:18 AM, Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com wrote:
parking areas, and in some cases even tennis and soccer pitches
In this cases also amenity=place_of_worship probably is not necessary.
It sounds like operator=*, owner=* and maybe landuse=religious would be
a
On Dec 30, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:27 AM, johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com
wrote:
I mapped the open sections as highway=pedestrian+area=yes, while I traced the
covered walkways (that connect the bus shelters) and tagged
I'm micromapping some public areas, in this case train stations. two questions:
1) there are large open concrete areas for pedestrians, but there are also
covered walkways through them as well.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/36.38380/139.07281
I mapped the open sections as
perhaps use the =destination tag instead of =private on the road you are
supposed to use.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access
I think that unless you are an invited guest and have a drawn map and
permission from the owner, a private
It's also time perhaps to talk about a trailhead symbol.
+1 being able to tag (then get renderings for) trailheads would be a big plus.
names should also be rendered in a distinct manner as well.
___
Tagging mailing list
usually, the purpose of visiting a playground is to, um, visit the playground.
The purpose of a play area is (AFIK) a place to deposit the kids while (one of)
the adults do something else, or as a amenity to a more serious or boring place
place where the kids can have their attention taken
johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com:
working on a proposal for civic landuses, and a subtag for building=civic for
all kinds of governmental buildings and services.
Your input is appreciated.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landuse%3Dcivic
http
. I had no
idea there were so many kinds of pizza in Italy!^__^
Javbw
On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:04 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2014-12-16 12:36 GMT+01:00 johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com:
Building=Civic + civic=civic_services if it offers something
It’s interesting that wherever you go, the “builder” people all seem to have
their own culture and identity - and uniform. The construction workers in
america that frame houses all seem to be part of of a big club, and the
specialty wooden house people here in Japan - daiku-san (大工さん) , with
One of the driving schools I went to is a permanent course laid out on a flood
plain ( as is the soccer fields and helipads), but as it is inside a leveed
flood canal, they are not allowed to build permanent buildings.
So the driving school uses a bus. It has a desk, a waiting room, and
working on a proposal for civic landuses, and a subtag for building=civic for
all kinds of governmental buildings and services.
Your input is appreciated.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landuse%3Dcivic
javbw
On Dec 16, 2014, at 7:30 AM, John F. Eldredge
The best way is probably locals developping a tagging scheme for their
field. The only problem then would be cuisine types that don't exist in the
country of which they pretend to come from ;-)
Yep - I’m sure the traditional, sushi, soba, udon, and maybe even the
imported-from-china ramen
Maybe in Japan a convenience store doesn't have food in it.
Japan has the nicest conbinis you can find - you could actually eat a real
(premade) lunch every day from a convenience store here, rather than getting
food poisoning from a hot dog at one in the US.
However - to them Fast food
On Nov 29, 2014, at 4:26 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:11 PM, johnw jo...@mac.com
mailto:jo...@mac.com wrote:
That looks really good. Some graphic designers need to remake the shields for
icon size (bigger lettering, details ignored
I have a question about creating custom road shields, and I know this ties into
-carto - but I think it needs tags to work, so I’ll start here in the tagging
list.
I was thinking of a method for adding custom badges or shields to roads and
generic objects - usually country specific things,
I think having it on the relation is a great idea, especially since adding the
tags to all the road segments sounds like an insane amount of tagging . Is this
something that we should ask Phil to create a formal proposal page for the
tags, so we can start adding symbol key values to relations?
On Nov 28, 2014, at 9:53 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
On 11/27/14 6:48 PM, johnw wrote:
I think having it on the relation is a great idea, especially since adding
the tags to all the road segments sounds like an insane amount of tagging .
Is this something that we
Then how did mail relay box sneak through then? It was part of the initial
proposal. It’s a box full of letters/parcels.
Javbw.
On Nov 18, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2014-11-18 8:32 GMT+01:00 johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com:
updated
How would I go about documenting the garbage/refuse cabinets? Just get a
picture and put it into the wiki, or is there some other way?
because it is a brand new proposal, I’m unsure of the procedure to extend it.
Javbw
It has been documented as voted yesterday
On Nov 17, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2014-11-14 5:03 GMT+01:00 johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com:
A couple more landuse cases were added. I’m going to ask now if it is a good
idea to specifically exclude Police/fire/safety and give them
On Nov 17, 2014, at 11:43 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote:
On 17/11/2014 15:14, althio forum wrote:
I may have been stretching the 'Openstreetmap' case a bit.
We were discussing how to properly tag kilns, with their method of firing and
how many chimneys they have, so I
On Nov 17, 2014, at 9:48 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
there will be more people with even more ideas and classification needs.
Therefor the foo=bar, bar=x way of subtyping, which implies there is only one
kind of subtyping, should generally be deprecated in
On Nov 14, 2014, at 8:09 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 5:03 AM, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote:
A couple more landuse cases were added. I’m going to ask now if it is a good
idea to specifically exclude Police/fire/safety and give them their own
landuse(s
On Nov 14, 2014, at 9:56 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:29 PM, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote:
it is a subkey for the buildings, to go with building=civic.
My concern is about splitting a landuse polygon just to refine
information that could be stored
Updated and clarified the split of civic into 3 separate keys - civic_admin,
civic_service, and civic_safety. Also discussed judicial and penal.
civic_safety and penal are interesting, because there is no landuse for police
stations, fire stations, jails or prisons. Martin suggested splitting
A couple more landuse cases were added. I’m going to ask now if it is a good
idea to specifically exclude Police/fire/safety and give them their own
landuse(s).
Safety could cover the lifeguard/ski patrol/ranger buildings that are public or
privately operated for the purposes of interacting
level=roof sounds fine to me. Roof always gets special treatment (it’s usually
never a floor number)
On Nov 12, 2014, at 6:34 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:22 PM, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote:
2014-11-11 12:53 GMT+01:00 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de
, at 8:33 PM, Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com wrote:
What about more complex buildings with multiple roofs?
2014-11-12 12:27 GMT+01:00 johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com:
level=roof sounds fine to me. Roof always gets special treatment (it’s
usually never a floor number
in the late 1980’s, they put non-potable signs on many springs in national
parks because of the uncertainty of bacteria in the water (from horse poop),
though people had been drinking from them since the parks creation (and
earlier).
There are places where access to water via spring or other
If we are to split landuse=civic into civic_services and civic_admin, Then I
would like some feedback on the categories things fall into.
On the discussion page, I listed out some building types that would fall into
either one, and I would like opinions on removals or additions to the lists.
.
This seems to really require a non-binary solution.
On Nov 12, 2014, at 10:16 AM, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote:
Now that the tagging structure can handle roads, driveways, tracks and trails
with very high levels of detail, the effort to refine the tags for even
smaller and more local
I was thinking of just.. Um.. drawing an area of the building, with levels=x,
layer=1, then drawing the parking lot on top of it (it usually is a bit smaller
and less than 100% of the top, elevators and AC and all), and then tagging the
parking with Amenity=parking parking=rooftop / layer=2
.
Javbw
On 11.11.2014 06:38, johnw wrote:
I assume there is a need to create a new parking=rooftop or similar tag,
which can then be used to create more accurate renderers (perhaps by also
placing the parking=rooftop tag onto the service=parking isle service
roads, so
First Principle?
However in a multistory buliding .. what are people coming to the building
for? Should 'we' not map the purpose of the building
The purpose of the building is indeed retail (almost always), but the purpose
of the map is navigation.
I wish to accurately tag and render
I’m not sure of other countries, but at least in the US, parking on top of
retail structures is exceedingly rare - usually there are adjacent multi-story
parking structures. It always seems that there is some kind of code or cost
savings preventing it, always forcing it to be underground or
Thanks Alberto, Mike Martin for the suggestions. I was a avid hiker in the
US, but this was the first time for me to encounter such assistance devices
myself. never knew their collective name until now.
Dan - I understand about “tagging for the renderer” , but what you personally
consider
To me, Civic is short for Civic Services. Maybe I should make that clear. I
updated the RFC page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landuse%3Dcivic
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civic
: of or relating to a city or town or the people who live there
: relating to
to me, as long as we get a new landuse and some
subtags out of it.
On Nov 5, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl
wrote:
On 5 November 2014 00:23, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote:
Business-government-citizen-military-religion-farm-park. There's some mixing
between them
opposing civil or civic by the definitions you cited above,
[...]
What about using more specific definitions, e.g.
landuse=public_administration?
johnw wrote on 2014-11-04 03:56:
Assembling a draft page. it is my first draft page, so my syntax is kinda
crap.
I will be working
'.
But
as in amenity={hospital|school}, amenity=embassy can be applied to an area
without hassle.
tom
John Willis wrote on 2014-10-07 23:47:
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 7, 2014, at 10:08 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2014-10-07 14:57 GMT+02:00 johnw :
For example, I'm a foreign resident
AFIK - footway and path are more toward the width, surface, smoothness,
maintenance level, and expected use of the way. a sidewalk often gets tagged as
footpath, as would be a concrete walkway in a garden.
Paths are usually less maintained, less even, narrower, and lower grade
surfaces.
, johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com
wrote:
Civic is what I suggested a few months ago. but where the line is drawn is up
for debate: what is included in this catch-all, and what isn’t.
I’ve tried arguing that each class should have their own catch-all landuse -
eg: we have residential
,
so it would be nice it the other contributors to this discussion would
indicate under which title we should start it.
tom
johnw wrote on 2014-11-04 00:40:
and the line between public and private is not one OSM singles out very
much (is is a public school vs a private school
Went hiking on mt Miyogi yesterday in Gunma, and like other steep mountain
parks, sections of the trail were near vertical or completely vertical sections
of trail that have to be climbed by chains and occasional footholds. the
longest was over 30m. the shortest was about 4m.
is that odd locked box for).
johnw wrote on 2014-10-31 07:00:
I was going to suggest Waste Transfer station
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dwaste_transfer_station
But after reading the wiki for it, it was not at all what I expected.
In America, at least in most suburban areas, waste
I was going to suggest Waste Transfer station
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dwaste_transfer_station
But after reading the wiki for it, it was not at all what I expected.
In America, at least in most suburban areas, waste is collected from individual
residences via bins/cans
Isn't shopping centre a collection of disparate stores grouped together for
connivence (same parking lot), whereas a mall is a singular large (or several
large) buildings full of little shops, primarily accessed by a pedestrian
Thoroughfare in the center?
To me the defining characteristic is
The second is in no way, shape or form, a mall, in the modern usage of Mall'
to define a shopping plaza destination. The word mall can also define a
pedestrian walkway with shops, But the singular noun of Mall - meaning a
large pedestrian centric shopping plaza - is very different than 5 shops
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