Re: [Tagging] amenity=police

2013-08-07 Thread Alex Rollin
office=government ? i was just looking at something similar with immigration offices, oft frequented by travelers. embassies, yes. in-country immigration offices, no. -- Alex On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: To move this forward I've put this in

Re: [Tagging] amenity=police

2013-08-07 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Alex Rollin alex.rol...@gmail.com wrote: office=government ? i was just looking at something similar with immigration offices, oft frequented by travelers. embassies, yes. in-country immigration offices, no. That's broader, and works for some ranger

[Tagging] Re : Re : Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-07 Thread yve...@gmail.com
I meant any like in any tag you want, not all :) For mountains, users might find reasonable to group peaks and ridges, but the rental holiday may feel it belongs too, and not necessarily the baker. Anyway the question is, does this belong to osm ? I already found some polygons in valleys with a

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:19 PM, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote: On 06.08.2013 16:27, Yuri D'Elia wrote: Fortunately, the boundaries of the area are not important in themselves. Nobody renders valley or mountain group borders. But we *do* use such boundaries for name placement. I

Re: [Tagging] amenity=police

2013-08-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 07/ago/2013, alle ore 08:17, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com ha scritto: office=government ? i was just looking at something similar with immigration offices, oft frequented by travelers. embassies, yes. in-country immigration offices, no. That's broader, and works for

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 07/ago/2013, alle ore 10:00, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com ha scritto: This solution can also apply to bodies of water that are not whole lakes or rivers. We currently (I think) do not tag the extent (even if fuzzy) of seas, bays, inlets, coves, fjords, and the like.

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-07 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno 07/ago/2013, alle ore 10:00, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com ha scritto: We currently (I think) do not tag the ***extent*** (even if fuzzy) of seas, bays, inlets, coves, fjords, and the like.

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-07 Thread Janko Mihelić
The best way I can think of for drawing oceans, is to put a tag on all natural=coastline ways that are bordering it. Something like ocean:name:en=Atlantic ocean. Janko ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/8/7 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com The best way I can think of for drawing oceans, is to put a tag on all natural=coastline ways that are bordering it. Something like ocean:name:en=Atlantic ocean. If you look closely onto this you'll see that there are not only the oceans but a whole

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-07 Thread Janko Mihelić
2013/8/7 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com If you look closely onto this you'll see that there are not only the oceans but a whole hierarchy of names seas and oceans and parts of them, so there is not only one name per coastline but a lot of them. Dependent on the scale of your

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - ranger_station

2013-08-07 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
After reading the discussion and incorporating what I could, I am moving http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:amenity%3Dranger_station to the next step. Please comment per voting procedures, here or on the talk page. ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - ranger_station

2013-08-07 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Note there is overlap between amentiy=ranger_station and tourism=information. A ranger station generally provides information in addition to other services. In the USA ranger stations have well established symbols, distinct from those used for tourist information only sites.

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-07 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 06.08.2013 15:51, Yuri D'Elia wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/45.2466/6.0866 which has been tagged with a multipoligon relation. Unfortunately, the relation has some problems: - not rendered anywhere? This is a super-relation, with other relations as members. This is not

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - ranger_station

2013-08-07 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: After reading the discussion and incorporating what I could, I am moving http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:amenity%3Dranger_station to the next step. Please comment per voting procedures, here

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-07 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote: It should rather be a type=collection relation. I really hate type=collection. One of the worst idea in OSM. All relations are collections. Pieren ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] waterway highway

2013-08-07 Thread Paul Johnson
I don't see how those tags are mutually exclusive. As for a dam being a waterway, makes about as much sense as highway=traffic_signals to me. On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:13 PM, André Pirard a.pirard.pa...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, The waterway=dam http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Dam definition

Re: [Tagging] waterway highway

2013-08-07 Thread malenki
Am Thu, 08 Aug 2013 02:13:38 +0200 schrieb André Pirard a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com: Hi, The waterway=dam http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Dam definition is all well but it doesn't give a damn about what runs on top ;-) Can I have waterway=dam highway=* ? You could map the dam as area

Re: [Tagging] waterway highway

2013-08-07 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM, André Pirard a.pirard.pa...@gmail.comwrote: The waterway=dam http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Dam definition is all well but it doesn't give a damn about what runs on top ;-) ... And, once again, I'm baffled by a dam being a waterway, like a crossing being a