Re: [Tagging] RENDER

2014-08-26 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:36 PM, André Pirard a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, this sentence is misunderstood, and by many repliers apparently. It means that once Mapnik uses a (defined) rendering you cannot change it (RENDER is ignored). The main idea behind RENDER is not coloring

Re: [Tagging] RENDER

2014-08-26 Thread Christian Quest
André I think you missed a major thing about cartography (and topography). As OSM contributors, we're not cartographers but topographers... we record topographic data. Then cartographers use that data, make choices to have some objets of THEIR choice visible on the map THEY are making with the

[Tagging] Religious landuse

2014-08-26 Thread John Packer
Hi, How did this topic turn out in the end? The wiki page Tag:landuse=religious [1] was translated to yet another language (japanese), and this tag is getting more uses (most likely due to being included as a preset in JOSM[2]), so I assume it's becoming de facto I'm not against

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse

2014-08-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
John Packer wrote, on 2014-08-26 16:57: I'm not against landuse=religious, but I'm not satisfied with it's current description: The area surrounding a amenity=place_of_worship used for religious purposes I believe a tag such as landuse=religious is inevitably going to be used as

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse

2014-08-26 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Tom Pfeifer t.pfei...@computer.org wrote: Thus the comparison with [amenity=school], that can be easily expanded to the whole campus, fails for [amenity=place_of_worship]. Thus, an active church building should be tagged [amenity=place_of_worship]

[Tagging] Map Features template

2014-08-26 Thread John Packer
I'm not sure that's the right mailing list for talking about this, but it's probably the closest Am I the only one that dislikes the Map Features templates on the wiki? (example: [1]) I think they make it harder to edit the wiki. People can find it hard to find out how to edit the template.

[Tagging] Contact-Tag for Webcam

2014-08-26 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, there exists a tagging for webcams in the contact-namespace (contact:webcam=*)[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:contact:webcam]. I don't understand, why a webcam is a communication channel. Andreas -- sorry for my bad english... Andreas Neumann http://map4Jena.de

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse

2014-08-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Tom Pfeifer t.pfei...@computer.org wrote: Thus the comparison with [amenity=school], that can be easily expanded to the whole campus, fails for [amenity=place_of_worship]. To conclude, [amenity=place_of_worship] should not be expanded to the full campus,

Re: [Tagging] Contact-Tag for Webcam

2014-08-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 26/ago/2014, alle ore 19:44, Andreas Neumann andr-neum...@gmx.net ha scritto: I don't understand, why a webcam is a communication channel. I agree ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Contact-Tag for Webcam

2014-08-26 Thread John F. Eldredge
On 08/26/2014 05:51 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Il giorno 26/ago/2014, alle ore 19:44, Andreas Neumann andr-neum...@gmx.net ha scritto: I don't understand, why a webcam is a communication channel. I agree ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] Contact-Tag for Webcam

2014-08-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 27/ago/2014, alle ore 01:37, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com ha scritto: It is a communication channel, but only one-way. The image seen by the camera is communicated to whomever is watching it at its destination, or whomever may watch the recorded image later.