Re: [Tagging] sneaking in tags in the wiki

2010-09-16 Thread James Livingston
On 16/09/2010, at 6:57 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: It does seem, however, that it would seem to make more sense to either have separate nodes for each of the possible directions, or have some other way of signifying which direction or directions the stop sign applies to. There's five or ten

Re: [Tagging] Non Proposed Features

2010-08-19 Thread James Livingston
On 17/08/2010, at 2:09 AM, Matthias Meißer wrote: Yes soft moderation by the community but therefore the community needs some central space and some guidelines. You already see the lack of voters, just cause it's to decentral communication atm. It's also because some people (myself included)

Re: [Tagging] tag groupings

2010-07-30 Thread James Livingston
On 31/07/2010, at 11:07 AM, John Smith wrote: Maybe we should stop using words for key pair values and just come up with a database that issues ID numbers, half the problems with the current scheme is due to people treating enumerated key pairs in the same way they are used to using english,

Re: [Tagging] Bridges and layers

2010-07-28 Thread James Livingston
On 28/07/2010, at 1:13 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: I think that there is definitely space for a bridge-relation to deal with all these informations and bring them together. An alternative might be to draw an (additional) polygon for the bridge area in projection (with common nodes on the

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

2009-12-11 Thread James Livingston
On 11/12/2009, at 5:44 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: The current wiki definition of highway=cycleway is mainly or exclusively for bicycles. This I cannot be sure of from the aerial imagery, nor can I of anything to do with the law. What to do... Ah, the curse of NearMap being too good. The current

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-10 Thread James Livingston
On 09/12/2009, at 3:30 AM, Mike Harris wrote: Personally - and I'm probably wrong! - I had always thought that foot / bicycle = yes / no etc. did not say anything one way or the other about formal legal status (hence leaving this to designation= ) but merely whether the evidence on the

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-05 Thread James Livingston
On 06/12/2009, at 5:17 PM, John Smith wrote: 2009/12/6 James Livingston doc...@mac.com: I'd hope that bicycle=no would have the same implications for having a bicycle without riding it as other *=no tags would for their transports. For example I would guess that where horse=no is used, you

[Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-02 Thread James Livingston
Hi all, Because we were having *so* much fun repeating the footway-cycleway-path debate again, here's another related question: what does bicycle=no actually mean, no bicycles or no cycling? Last night I asked on IRC whether anyone know how to tag a Cyclists must dismount sign, and would