Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
On 12/03/2012 04:32 PM, Christopher Baines wrote: I can see the food issue is becoming a recurring theme, and this is detracting from the main reason I put forward this proposal. I have now removed the food references from the proposal, such that now, the subjects of the relation would be school

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-03 Thread Christopher Baines
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 12:33 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > +1, they'll most likely make an exception also for small orders if it > is for a place a few steps from the "border", while they will probably > make exceptions for larger orders also if it is a little more distant. > IMHO for pizza se

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-03 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/12/3 Colin Smale : > postcode areas. A pizza delivery service is however always free to make an > exception as it sees fit. +1, they'll most likely make an exception also for small orders if it is for a place a few steps from the "border", while they will probably make exceptions for larger

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-03 Thread Colin Smale
In my mind there is a conceptual difference between formally defined administrative areas and informal catchment areas. For the former, there is (somewhere) a documented source of "the truth", whereas there is no official document to describe the delivery area of a pizza restaurant. Religious ad

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-03 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Christopher Baines wrote: > After more consideration, and the helpful feedback from the list. I have > revised the proposal [1]. It now uses a boundary relation. Once again, > does anyone have any comments? > > 1: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_featur

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-03 Thread Richard Mann
If only a handful of people are likely to use the data (inevitable with lots of overlapping catchments), then create it offline (draw it as a separate layer in JOSM and save it). If more than 1 person will use it, post it somewhere. You could add a link on the wiki city page. But I wouldn't add ob

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-03 Thread Christopher Baines
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 08:46 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/01/12 15:05, Chris Baines wrote: > > As part of the Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event, myself and a > > friend have been working on the Granular Health Map problem [1]. We have > > started trying to tackle the catchment ar

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/01/12 15:05, Chris Baines wrote: As part of the Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event, myself and a friend have been working on the Granular Health Map problem [1]. We have started trying to tackle the catchment area problem, and have created a proposal [2]. We both have some experienc

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-02 Thread Christopher Baines
On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 14:05 +, Chris Baines wrote: > Hi, > > As part of the Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event, myself and a > friend have been working on the Granular Health Map problem [1]. We > have started trying to tackle the catchment area problem, and have > created a proposal [2]. W

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/12/1 Tobias Johansson : > But I agree if we would have a layer-based interface in the future > this could/should be added. I hope we won't ever get a layer-based interface, because this would cause a lot of trouble and discrepancies between the various layers. One of the best ideas when OSM

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-01 Thread Tobias Johansson
2012/12/1 Christopher Baines : > On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 09:24 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: >> The problem with representing catchment areas in OSM is that it rapidly >> gets into the "one database, one man's treasure, another's junk" >> problem, because it leads to objects for things that don't really

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/12/1 Christopher Baines : > On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 15:39 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> I'd like to draw your attention to this proposal >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Healthcare_2.0 >> There are also examples and other useful links on the bottom of the page. > >

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-01 Thread Christopher Baines
On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 15:39 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I'd like to draw your attention to this proposal > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Healthcare_2.0 > There are also examples and other useful links on the bottom of the page. Thanks Martin, I have been looking in

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-01 Thread Christopher Baines
On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 09:24 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > The problem with representing catchment areas in OSM is that it rapidly > gets into the "one database, one man's treasure, another's junk" > problem, because it leads to objects for things that don't really exist, > but are only enshrined in p

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/12/1 Chris Baines : > As part of the Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event, myself and a friend > have been working on the Granular Health Map problem [1]. We have started > trying to tackle the catchment area problem, and have created a proposal > [2]. We both have some experience mapping in

Re: [Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-01 Thread Greg Troxel
Chris Baines writes: > 1: http://www.rhok.org/problems/granular-health-map > 2: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Catchment The problem with representing catchment areas in OSM is that it rapidly gets into the "one database, one man's treasure, another's junk" problem, becau

[Tagging] Catchment Areas

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Baines
Hi, As part of the Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event, myself and a friend have been working on the Granular Health Map problem [1]. We have started trying to tackle the catchment area problem, and have created a proposal [2]. We both have some experience mapping in OSM, but not any about propo