Re: [Tagging] Childcare Tag

2013-07-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/19/2013 03:33 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Of the solutions, I feel that calling it what it's called locally is preferable. Anyone who cares to compare across countries is going to have to parse the location first anyway. We've managed to handle creating definitions that we could

Re: [Tagging] Childcare Tag

2013-07-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/7/19 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org On 07/19/2013 03:33 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: We've managed to handle creating definitions that we could use worldwide for pretty much everything else, including roads, sports, other schools, various amenities, etc. Have we really? In Italy

Re: [Tagging] Double and misfitting house numbers

2013-07-19 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com That seems okay to me. Not for me. I think the address is a feature by ifself, not an attribute of other features (like 'name'). For instance, a routing software cares about a unique address when only the address is provided.

Re: [Tagging] Double and misfitting house numbers

2013-07-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/7/19 Pieren pier...@gmail.com For addresses, most of them have a simple 1:1 relationship with a building (probable not in urban areas). This really depends on the area, in some German regions the address is for a site, and (if needed) for entrances to buildings or staircases on that

Re: [Tagging] Double and misfitting house numbers

2013-07-19 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: Example use case: a corporate campus with multiple buildings, but a single postal address. Either your corporate campus is a single polygone (containing the buildings), then put the address on this polygon. Or the

Re: [Tagging] Childcare Tag

2013-07-19 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: On 07/19/2013 03:33 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Of the solutions, I feel that calling it what it's called locally is preferable. Anyone who cares to compare across countries is going to have to parse the location

Re: [Tagging] Childcare Tag

2013-07-19 Thread Steve Doerr
On 19/07/2013 12:50, Serge Wroclawski wrote: As for kindergarten, while the name may have an obvious German origin, my question is what the British definition of the word is, since it's British English that we use in OSM as our base language, and does that British definition differ from the

Re: [Tagging] Childcare Tag

2013-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Serge Wroclawski wrote: As for kindergarten, while the name may have an obvious German origin, my question is what the British definition of the word is, since it's British English that we use in OSM as our base language, and does that British definition differ from the US definition. In

[Tagging] Are addresses features or attributes?

2013-07-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Forking the discussion from Double and misfitting house numbers On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: Not for me. I think the address is a feature by ifself, not an attribute of other features (like 'name'). I want to know what do people think about addresses. 1.

Re: [Tagging] Are addresses features or attributes?

2013-07-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/7/19 Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com 1. Are addresses features as Pieren suggests? Thus addresses should be mapped separately or at least tagged singularly on the primary object that represents the address. 2. Or are addresses attributes (like names) of POIs, buildings, and the

Re: [Tagging] Are addresses features or attributes?

2013-07-19 Thread Elliott Plack
I like the address as a feature approach because not all addressed 'things' exist, and 'things' can have many addresses. That's how we deal with addresses in my gov's GIS. For example: a vacant lot often has an address, but there doesn't need to be a building there. Also some shopping

Re: [Tagging] Are addresses features or attributes?

2013-07-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/7/19 Elliott Plack elliott.pl...@gmail.com For example: a vacant lot often has an address, but there doesn't need to be a building there. Also some shopping centers have multiple addresses for the same building, so we make address points for each entrance or centroid. yes, this is

Re: [Tagging] Childcare Tag

2013-07-19 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 11:04 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Another object that comes to my mind is amenity=pub. You will usually get something to eat in a pub in the UK, but you won't in many German amenity=pub (indeed it might have been a good idea to invent something dedicated for the

Re: [Tagging] Are addresses features or attributes?

2013-07-19 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Sometimes a lot's address (for tax purposes) is different from the building address (which may be driven by a desire to be on a more 'popular' street name). ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting Open - toilets, toilets:disposal, pitlatrine

2013-07-19 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.comwrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: access=permissive (while nominally private, no visible attempt is made to restrict access, and casual use appears to be tolerated by