Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-07 Thread Colin Smale
On 07/10/2010 01:03, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: On 2010-10-06 at 21:20:08 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: Some places but not all...At least in NL you are not allowed to turn left or make a U-turn across a solid centre line, nor are you allowed to cross the line to overtake anything at all. It's

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-07 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2010-10-07 at 08:16:46 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: On 07/10/2010 01:03, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: On 2010-10-06 at 21:20:08 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: It's the same in Italy, but you can overtake if you are an ambulance or another emergency vehicle, so I believe it is worth to keep the

[Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
I know we already talked about this, but actually no actions followed ;-) What is the current feeling for a new key landcover? Could resolve many issues, as often landuse is a mixture of actual use and coverage. Seems like there is already landcover=tree in the database:

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:09 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I know we already talked about this, but actually no actions followed ;-) What is the current feeling for a new key landcover? Could resolve many issues, as often landuse is a mixture of actual use and coverage.

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote: In general, I like the idea. But I don't think the agricultural tags should be changed from landuse--they describe how the land is used. For example, forest describes what covers the land (trees), while orchard

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote: In general, I like the idea. But I don't think the agricultural tags should be changed from landuse--they describe how the land is used.

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Brad Neuhauser
I'd forgotten about that--good point. Although surface as currently used seems to be mainly in the context of roads. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Could this not be collapsed into with surface=*? If not, what would be the relationship/difference

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: Not everything in a national forest is covered by trees, yet the standard way of tagging one is landuse=forest on an area. some tag it like this but this is entirely wrong. National forest defines the ownership but

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Dave F.
On 07/10/2010 19:56, Tobias Knerr wrote: Brad Neuhauser wrote: I'd forgotten about that--good point. Although surface as currently used seems to be mainly in the context of roads. There's nothing to limit it to roads - it describes the surface of a feature. For example, the natural=beach

Re: [Tagging] SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-07 Thread Sean Horgan
Hi Sam, Seems like some great work. I'm relatively new to contributing to OSM so pardon what may be some ignorant questions that I have. 1. How does the spreadsheet fit in with the current process of managing Map Features (RFC Draft, Proposal, Vote, etc)? 2. How will new users to OSM find this

Re: [Tagging] [OSM Fork] Re: SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-07 Thread Sam Vekemans
cool thanks :) I guess it makes the most sence for me to update the wiki page, i'll try my best to answer you questions to make it easier for others who see the page, and might have the same questions. I'll aim to get it done by 1 weeks tim cheers, sam On 10/7/10, Sean Horgan

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Not everything in a national forest is covered by trees, yet the standard way of tagging one is landuse=forest on an area. some tag it

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Brad Neuhauser
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Brad Neuhauser wrote: I'd forgotten about that--good point. Although surface as currently used seems to be mainly in the context of roads. There's nothing to limit it to roads - it describes the surface of a

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Ralf Kleineisel
On 10/07/2010 10:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: That's why it's landuse=forest, not landcover=forest. A landuse=residential area isn't all houses (it includes yards, That's why it is not landuse=house. A landuse=residential contains all things that belong to a typical residential area, like

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Ralf Kleineisel r...@kleineisel.de wrote: I know that legally a field may belong to a national forest, but it shouldn't be tagged as a forest because it isn't one. It is a part of a managed forest. Every topographic or street map I know would show a border of a

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: That's why it's landuse=forest, not landcover=forest. A landuse=residential area isn't all houses (it includes yards, driveways, garages, streets, sidewalks) and a landuse=forest area isn't all trees. still it

Re: [Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

2010-10-07 Thread Stephen Hope
On 8 October 2010 03:09, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: What is the current feeling for a new key landcover? Could resolve many issues, as often landuse is a mixture of actual use and coverage. As long as it is made clear that not all landuse= tags are actually landuse (or