Re: [Tagging] Query regarding seasonal tag combined for outdoor water fountains.

2020-01-24 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
23 Jan 2020, 19:14 by europeanwaterproj...@gmail.com: > operation_status = XXX  - for fountains which are not operational on a > specific sighting > In such case I would add an OSM note and ask for a resurvey. And report issue to local government. With this tag it is hard to guess whatever it

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Peter Elderson
"for instance in France a car driver crossing a sidewalk must give way > to others" says the wiki page. Presumably this is a different legal > case than at a crosswalk in France. > In Nederland, if traffic has to cross a sidewalk to get onto a road, it must give way to all other traffic when

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Marc Gemis
I made a quick sketch: https://photos.smugmug.com/OSM/Screenshots/Screenshots-1/i-w92ZnDZ/0/90e60837/X4/Bezuidenhoutseweg%20-%20Google%20Maps-X4.png Of course, this info is then only available for the cars following the blue road. Cycling navigation along de Bezuidenhoutseweg will not be able to

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Peter Elderson
So for pedestrians, you would add a node on the blue line where it crosses the centerline of the sidewalk tagged highway=crossing, crossing=? Vr gr Peter Elderson Op vr 24 jan. 2020 om 10:48 schreef Marc Gemis : > I made a quick sketch: > >

Re: [Tagging] a kind of name:XX-modern-not-used

2020-01-24 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
23 Jan 2020, 22:49 by marc_marc_...@hotmail.com: > a contributor spends time trying to find the meaning of these words and > replaces the name with a modern version, absent both from the ground and> > from use > Why someone would do this? Such edits should be reverted. Is it a theoretical

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Volker Schmidt
In Nederland, if traffic has to cross a sidewalk to get onto a road, it > must give way to all other traffic when leaving the sidewalk. In effect, > this cancels the priority to the right. rule.That makes it different from a > zebra crossing, which does give priority to pedestrians, but does not >

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Peter Elderson
Same thing in Nederland. Best, Peter Elderson Op vr 24 jan. 2020 om 10:55 schreef Martin Koppenhoefer < dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > In Germany, this is how the beginning / end of living streets work: > > http://www.gablenberger-klaus.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/K-Spielstra%C3%9Fe-1.jpg >

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Marc Gemis
Add a node where the way, which represents the road for the cars, crosses the cycleway. There does not have to be a way representing the cycleway. We do the same for zebra crossings for pedestrians all the time. We add the node where the path that the pedestrians have to follow crosses the road

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
In Germany, this is how the beginning / end of living streets work: http://www.gablenberger-klaus.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/K-Spielstra%C3%9Fe-1.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Drosselweg.JPG Cheers Martin ___ Tagging mailing

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Cascafico Giovanni
So "active" is ment in geological time... rather wide for OSM :-) How to tag its recent activity, ie for touristic purposes? Il ven 24 gen 2020, 14:40 Christoph Hormann ha scritto: > On Friday 24 January 2020, Cascafico Giovanni wrote: > > > > Which is the criteria to tag volcanoes as

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
There is some documentation athttps://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dvolcano Note that wiki is not binding and may be wrong. Also, there are apparently multiple ways to classify volcano activity See for example https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_volcanoes 24 Jan

Re: [Tagging] a kind of name:XX-modern-not-used

2020-01-24 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I am against transforming OSM into an etymological dictionary. While etymological research is of course valuable, such results are not easily verifiable for other users, and overload the tagging of objects that have plenty of tags in current languages already. There are systems like

Re: [Tagging] Page about mismatching key names (historic=wayside_shrine used for modern ones etc)

2020-01-24 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 09:12, Volker Schmidt wrote: > Il ven 24 gen 2020, 11:51 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging > ha scritto: >> One of topics often appearing is mismatch between meaning of key >> and key text. >> ... >> It is created at >>

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Peter Elderson
highway=give_way would not map the situation, just the priority. Maybe it's just me, but I think highway=give_way is an unclear tag. Who gives way to who, in what direction? I think it is better to tag it as a type of crossing. Can be rendered, can be routed. Best, Peter Elderson Op vr 24 jan.

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Marc Gemis
> So for pedestrians, you would add a node on the blue line where it crosses > the centerline of the sidewalk tagged highway=crossing, > crossing=? yes (or combine the crossing for pedestrians and cyclists into one node) and you can add a highway=give_way (or stop) near the node for the kerb

Re: [Tagging] Page about mismatching key names (historic=wayside_shrine used for modern ones etc)

2020-01-24 Thread Volker Schmidt
These are no mismatches. Keys and values are in principle arbitrary sequences of alphanumeric characters. By convention we try to make them mnemonic by using strings that somehow help us remember the meaning of the string. By convention we use British English words for keys and values, plus

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:40 AM Christoph Hormann wrote: > Reason for the lack of verifiability is that what an active volcano is > in almost all uses of this term does not depend on the current state of > the volcano but on its history - most commonly during the holocene (10k > years) or during

Re: [Tagging] a kind of name:XX-modern-not-used

2020-01-24 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:59 AM Tom Pfeifer wrote: > I am against transforming OSM into an etymological dictionary. While > etymological research is of > course valuable, such results are not easily verifiable for other users, and > overload the tagging of > objects that have plenty of tags in

[Tagging] Page about mismatching key names (historic=wayside_shrine used for modern ones etc)

2020-01-24 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
One of topics often appearing is mismatch between meaning of key and key text. Especially among newbies interested in discussions. "why we use natural=water for man made canals?" "why we tag man made beaches as natural=?" "Lets migrate natural=water to landcover=water". So far I was basically

[Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Cascafico Giovanni
vHello ML! this query [1] is supposed to display active volcanes. I made some research using Sentinel-2 browser, but it happens that most volcanoes doesn't have an infrared response [2]. Which is the criteria to tag volcanoes as volcano:status=active? [1] http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Q3E [2]

Re: [Tagging] Query regarding seasonal tag combined for outdoor water fountains.

2020-01-24 Thread Paul Allen
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 10:06, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > && Deleting a non-functioning fountain node, is discouraged > But in case of removed structure deletion > of node is encouraged. > There are some (I'm one of them) who would say that if the

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Friday 24 January 2020, Cascafico Giovanni wrote: > > Which is the criteria to tag volcanoes as volcano:status=active? That tag is practically non-verifiable and therefore does not really belong in OSM. But since everyone is free to add any tags they want in OSM such tags of course exist.

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Alessandro Sarretta
On 24/01/20 15:52, Cascafico Giovanni wrote: How to tag its recent activity, ie for touristic purposes? Maybe a last_eruption:date=* tag (with a documented source) could be enough do define recent activities? Ale ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
Jan 24, 2020, 15:34 by kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:40 AM Christoph Hormann wrote: > >> Reason for the lack of verifiability is that what an active volcano is >> in almost all uses of this term does not depend on the current state of >> the volcano but on its history -

Re: [Tagging] Page about mismatching key names (historic=wayside_shrine used for modern ones etc)

2020-01-24 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
Jan 24, 2020, 18:19 by vosc...@gmail.com: > Human readability is a convenience, but is not reflected in the data > structure at all. > I strongly disagree with this. Nearly all tags are human readable, with rare exception like extremely complicated opening hours or wikidata (where lack of human

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 2:38 PM Paul Allen wrote: > But "active" is too broad a term to be meaningful, I think. Well, then, let's clarify the intention, narrow the definition, choose a more appropriate keyword if necessary, wikify the narrowed definition, and use that, rather than rejecting the

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Mark Wagner
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:04:21 +0100 Cascafico Giovanni wrote: > vHello ML! > this query [1] is supposed to display active volcanes. I made some > research using Sentinel-2 browser, but it happens that most volcanoes > doesn't have an infrared response [2]. > > Which is the criteria to tag

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Clifford Snow
As a person living 50km from an "active" but dormant volcano, Mount Baker [1], I definitely know its status. What I'm not sure of is the OP definition of active. Mount Baker is an active but dormant volcano that only puts out a bit of steam. For a while, in my life time, Arenal in Costa Rica was

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Paul Allen
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 19:22, Mark Wagner wrote: > > "Active" is too vague to be mapped. > +1 Like Kevin Kenny, I have no problem with allowing for different levels of expertise. I have no problem with making use of expert sources (as long as there is a good consensus and their opinions are

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Hubert87
Hallo Florimon, could you eleborate the differnce between your proposal as opposed to using "traffic_calming=hump" (you mention "traffic_calming=table" on the wiki page) in conjunction with "highway=crossing" like on this node: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1962458951

Re: [Tagging] Query regarding seasonal tag combined for outdoor water fountains.

2020-01-24 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
Jan 24, 2020, 13:50 by pla16...@gmail.com: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 10:06, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <> > tagging@openstreetmap.org> > wrote: > >> >> &&   Deleting a non-functioning fountain node, is discouraged >> But in case of removed structure deletion >> of node is encouraged. >> > >

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Kevin Kenny
Jan 24, 2020, 15:34 by kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com: > That's often entirely verifiable by the existence of human artefacts > damaged by a previous eruption. On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:23 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote: > But it is not verifiable in practice by amateur surveyors. > >

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Jez Nicholson
..or follow the Wikidata:id and link out to another data source like https://volcano.si.edu/ to avoid transient data in OSM On Fri, 24 Jan 2020, 15:24 Alessandro Sarretta, < alessandro.sarre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24/01/20 15:52, Cascafico Giovanni wrote: > > How to tag its recent activity,

Re: [Tagging] Page about mismatching key names (historic=wayside_shrine used for modern ones etc)

2020-01-24 Thread Volker Schmidt
OK, my wording was intentionally provoking. But this basic conceptual issue is at the base of many unnecessary tagging modifications. I refrained from adding the OSM version of the duck principle. One of the items in the proposed page illustrates well why I think people need to get the message

Re: [Tagging] Active volcanoes

2020-01-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Friday 24 January 2020, Cascafico Giovanni wrote: > So "active" is ment in geological time... rather wide for OSM :-) No, the tag does not have a consistent meaning, it simply means some mapper has at some point subjectively considered this feature to be an active volcano. > How to tag its

[Tagging] All European Union countries use E5/E10/B7 instead of gasoline 98/95, Diesel 10S respectively

2020-01-24 Thread Thibault Molleman
Hi, Back in 2018 all countries in the European Union were forced to switch their naming scheme for fuels at gas stations to the new E5/E10/B7 scheme (referring to the amount of bio-ethanol in the fuel. Sources: http://www.flanderstoday.eu/petrol-98-and-95-labels-change-next-week

Re: [Tagging] Page about mismatching key names (historic=wayside_shrine used for modern ones etc)

2020-01-24 Thread Evan Derickson
Rather than "Mismatching key names", what about "Counterintuitive key names"? On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:20 AM Volker Schmidt wrote: > OK, > my wording was intentionally provoking. But this basic conceptual issue is > at the base of many unnecessary tagging modifications. > I refrained from

Re: [Tagging] Continuous Sidewalk or Cycleway

2020-01-24 Thread Florimond Berthoux
What are the features of a continuous sidewalk ? The main feature is to have a... continuous sidewalk, which means the layout of the sidewalk is the same before, at the junction and after. If you look only at the sidewalk you would not see any difference in surface or height. (At least for the