Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-04-03 Thread Richard Z.
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:18:12PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Problem is that while "wanting things to show on the map" is a strong > motivator for people, it doesn't scale - we are not far from the point > where for every feature we add to our main map we have to remove another > feature from

Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-04-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02.04.2014 17:20, André Pirard wrote: >>> BUT: I asked OsmAnd to render the tag, and the >>> answer was - quite understandable: "/Only officially supported tags will >>> be rendered/". >> This is silly. How do they define "officially supported tag"? There's no >> such thing in OpenStreetM

Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-04-02 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-03-30 13:50, Frederik Ramm wrote : > Hi, > > On 29.03.2014 13:41, nounours77 wrote: >> BUT: I asked OsmAnd to render the tag, and the >> answer was - quite understandable: "/Only officially supported tags will >> be rendered/". > This is silly. How do they define "officially supported tag"

Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-03-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 29.03.2014 13:41, nounours77 wrote: > BUT: I asked OsmAnd to render the tag, and the > answer was - quite understandable: "/Only officially supported tags will > be rendered/". This is silly. How do they define "officially supported tag"? There's no such thing in OpenStreetMap. I suspect

Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-03-29 Thread Dan S
Hi - I'm afraid the answer is "neither". OSM is a database for geodata that is open-licensed, publicly verifiable and not short-term. This means it's more than just a base-layer. But it also means it's not a database for all possible geodata. We don't include holiday apartment reviews/ratings beca

Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-03-29 Thread Dave Swarthout
I am in the B category for my vision of OSM. I had not voted on these because they aren't important to me and i will never probably use either tag but the work you've done is good and I just now voted Yes on both. While I was reading through the table of possible tourism=*_hut I noticed that you m

[Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-03-29 Thread nounours77
Hi there, Not sure if this is the right place for this philosophical question. But starting from the comment of Brycenesbitt to my apartment-proposal "I feel this will become yet another piece of unmaintanable data in OSM." and several comments I got on my boat_sharing proposal "just use it, do