Yesterday I GPS-surveyed some public footpaths, one of which went
through a crop (sugarbeet, I think). The surface was harder to walk
on than dirt or grass, with lots of lumps (beet); the farmer had only
marginally complied with the law:
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:50 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
Any suggestions as to how to represent some steps...
These steps aren't that unusual I guess, but they aren't a staircase. They
form the edges of a piazza-like platform, running most of the way around it.
There are
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:28 AM, André Riedel riedel.an...@gmail.com wrote:
As the creator of the proposal I do not like your proposed key/value
entrance=public_transport.
The tag should show the importance of an entrance and not what you
will find behind the door.
Definitely. I think it
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote:
Definitely. I think it would be good, wherever possible, to stick to
the idea of the value of a tag subclassing the key, so that
building
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Are you recommending to tag subway stations as buildings in order to be able
to tag their entrances?
That seems logical to me. Is there some problem with doing this, that
I haven't seen? I know that it would be
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
On 10/14/2011 01:18 PM, John Sturdy wrote:
Are you recommending to tag subway stations as buildings in order to be
able
to tag their entrances?
That seems logical to me. Is there some problem with doing
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
What about covered=yes?
or underground=yes which could be a simple filter for all of us who
don't want to be disturbed by underground features
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/10/14 Kytömaa Lauri lauri.kyto...@aalto.fi:
Taginfo won't show the combinations at the moment, but location=*
is, afaik, used on ways with man_made=pipeline and nodes tagged
amenity/emergency=fire_hydrant.
Yes but the
On http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:power%3Dpole/Gallery, there
is an entry that says:
Typical Finnish 20 kV line (topmost), a transformer and the
resulting 400 V line. The transformer should be tagged as
power=sub_station.
When you follow the link on the image for that text, the page
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:37 AM, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest barrier=rising_kerb for the ones Dave originally posted
about
Just re-opened Dave's original message, and saw that's what he's
already suggested!
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On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 8:18 PM, David Paleino da...@debian.org wrote:
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:04:48 +0300, Reinier Battenberg wrote:
Sean Blaschke and myself also created a page for sceptic_tank. You dont want
to fall into one, so mapping them seems like a good idea.
Page renamed to
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
or maybe even better:
Communication towers are intended to hold equipment for broadcast,
two-way communications or reception; such as radio, television,
cellphones, two-way radio and optical communication.
At
On 11/8/11, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
What I mean is that if the ridges can be auto-generated, they can be
rendered without being in the database.
If you don't have the longitude, latitude, and altitude of a sufficient
number of points in the database, any calculated
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
shop=herbalist's shop
I think shop in the value is redundant, as shop is the key, so
shop=herbalist
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
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2011/11/17 Andreas Balzer andreas.bal...@live.de:
Hello,
I've added a proposal on how to tag doors. It would be nice to get your
opinions on this.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:42 AM, sabas88 saba...@gmail.com wrote:
Take the examples of dentist and prison, they
aren't pleasant (http://www.wordreference.com/definition/amenity) :)
Perhaps facility would be a better word for such things?
There are some tags I'd very much like to see changed,
I've been marking open-air swimming pools that I've spotted in back
gardens etc, that are presumably private. It struck me as odd to call
them amenities as I take that to be something public. Should I go
back to them and mark them as access=private where they're clearly
associated with houses?
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote:
On the one hand I wouldn't bother tagging them, but for the ones that you
did tag, I think you should go back and tag them private. The tennis courts
too.
Agreed --- I'll do that (although fairly gradually).
Every time I see solar
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
Depending on where you live, the government may already have such data
available:
http://www.ocpafl.org/searches/ParcelSearch.aspx?pid=282316389901790
PL3 - Large Elaborate Pool
Hmmm... my first thought was that's
Permissive path is a well-established term in the UK (at least in
England and Wales; Scottish law may differ concerning types of access
right, but I don't know the details).
According to the page Basics of footpath law on the UK Ramblers'
Assocation website
Another variation that I've heard of is a farm internal road that the
farmer allows cyclists to use provided they sign a disclaimer that
they won't sue him for any accidents they have along the road (or
something like that, maybe using the road is taken to indicate
agreement with the conditions).
I understand access=no as meaning no *public* access, but perhaps
that is better covered by access=private.
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Are there examples of places where taxis can't use a bus lane?
Maybe the approaches to a bus station. And certainly within some bus
stations, although you might not count that as a bus lane.
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com wrote:
Regarding Landuse=residential I do not agree with the approach of the two
examples
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=35.323225lon=-119.077089zoom=18
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=45.301967lon=8.444596zoom=18
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Flaimo fla...@gmail.com wrote:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/building_passage
any comments or suggestion can be added to the talk page of the proposal
Done -- suggesting height and width and other tags, and querying
how to handle
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Komяpa m...@komzpa.net wrote:
I would recommend not to use the word 'gymnasium, because it is
easily confused (and even recognised by google translate) as high
school in russian language.
Also in Swedish and German, I think.
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In some areas of the country (noticeably the Fens, with their wet
soil, I think) there are concreted areas beside farm tracks, that
farmers use for storing things on (such as hay bales). I don't know
what these are called, and have generally not mapped them, but they
are a noticeable feature of
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:25 AM, OSM user o...@fizik.spb.ru wrote:
Hello!
I want to use some designations for preventing traffic signs:
I think the usual English term is warning signs rather than
preventing signs.
(In modern English, to prevent is to stop something happening,
although it
I recently found myself inconvenienced by turning up for lunch at a
pub that only took cash, when I had only card money on me (something
that I gather a growing number of people make a habit of doing), and
immediately thought that would be a good thing to be able to warn
about on OSM. So now I've
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
Am 10. April 2012 22:01 schrieb Komяpa m...@komzpa.net:
It's possible to have pedestrian routing without separate ways for
sidewalks, but it's nicer when it shows you where you can actually
cross the road.
The
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
To be a city it would require a cathedral.
Or a charter... Cambridge is a city without a cathedral, for example.
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On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
I believe there is an address locallity which can be used in this case.
Yes, and this is consistent with rural Irish addresses which don't use
street and housenumbering, but divide parishes into townlands, which
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
That is very true, although I had assumed that on recieving a city
charter a church is normally made a cathedral
No, that's a completely separate matter, handled by the Church of
England --- the charter is from the
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:23 PM, D4RK-L3G10N d4rkl3g...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear fellow mappers,
I have created a proposal to map an auctioneer
Note that in Ireland (at least in the southwest, which is the only
part I've lived in) the term auctioneer is used to refer to what in
the UK are called
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:58 AM, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote:
By the way, how do I tag a pool which is only for women ? Do we have a gender
access tag so far ?
women=only ?
Probably access=women
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On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Martin Vonwald imagic@gmail.com wrote:
If there is only a single vehicle, or two vehicles traveling in
opposite directions, it is common to drive straight across the middle
rather than going
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Martin Vonwald imagic@gmail.com wrote:
All of them showed 100. And under
normal circumstances they will always show 100.
The tag maxspeed=signals doesn't carry any useful information in this
situation
How about the default_maxspeed tag, which is already
are
present, and others still are based on signal indication.
Those sound fairly predictable, although not necessarily easy to parse
and use in routing applications.
On Jun 26, 2012 5:47 AM, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote:
As far as I know, variable speed limits tend to be used
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to tag a brickworks.
Maybe it's the heat (30 centigrades indoors), but I cannot find a specific
tagging for a brickworks (large site, heaps of finished bricks, well visible
chimney).
How about:
Rather than long discussions about renaming or merging tags (e.g.
drinkable, potable), perhaps we should accept that there will be
things for which more than one tag name is in use, and decide on a
format and a URL at which a synonym table can be stored, for renderers
and other tools to use?
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Names_localization
+1, generally; but I'm not keen on deprecating the bare name=* tag,
because for many (perhaps most) named features, there is only one
name. For example, a minor rural road in England will probably have a
name (in
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:48:37 John Sturdy wrote:
It's also not true that in a 'monolingual' country that there is only one name
for something. For example, London is 'London' to a British person,
but 'Londres
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Are we agreed that tracks=4 on each individual
way to indicate the total number of tracks running side by side is wrong?
I think it's wrong (I think tracks=n on a way indicates how many
tracks that way represents).
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I'd include houses' gardens in the residential land use area
associated with the houses --- if they're large rural gardens, it
helps to distinguish them from fields.
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Why has Ford been depreciated? It is the correct definition, and the
word used on road signs.
A google search revealed this wiki page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:ford
Why has it not been discussed in this mailing list where it will be seen
by someone who is not searching
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Johan Jönsson joha...@goteborg.cc wrote:
Andy Carter osm@... writes:
Good idea!
I had to check up on the word planter
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/planter
Seems absolute spot on as a large flower-pot used as decoration or as a
barrier. Since we
There may be more than one duration of trip on the same route --- for
example, conventional ferries and fast catamarans / hydrofoils sharing
a route. (Fishguard --- Rosslare used to do this, for example.)
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Martin wrote:
Actually I just revived an old proposal for stables [1]. My first thought
was to simply use stables=animal until someone with much better english
language skills pointed out that stables usually only refer to horses. I
would also like to see one common tag for some place where
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Martin Vonwald (imagic)
imagic@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
A quick question how you would tag this:
* one building (looks from the outside mostly like a residential building)
* the building is used for three different things: an office, a riding ground
(just
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:53 PM, David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com wrote:
My employer is a contractor for a few railroads, and through that experience
I have gained personal knowlege of several named control points for one
railroad in particular. A control point typically consists of signals
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
There is already a specification, to whom it is an obstacle
(obstacle:car, ...) maybe we could have an additional
obstacle:waterway for all waterbased transport (or more
differentiated, it is probably
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
It is rare to prohibit hgvs as such, the way this is achieved is by weight
or length. The most common is to prohibit vehicles over 7.5t, the historic
breakpoint between a vehicle that could be driven on a car license
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
Have never seen it sold alongside normal petrol or diesel however, it is
illegal to drive on a public road when using it.
It's widely available at filling stations in rural areas of the
Republic of Ireland (where it
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Rob Nickerson
rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
One point that jumps to mind: I would imagine that you will find the
layer=* tag to be better than level=*.
+1
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:33 PM, François Lacombe
francois.laco...@telecom-bretagne.eu wrote:
So we have the same opinion so far, that's great!
And from me, to.
Just a question about the OSM sense of deprecated.
Why can't we directly display a big message on each never use this tag to
inform
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Martin Vonwald imagic@gmail.com wrote:
2013/2/6 Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com:
The other problem with mapping some of these is they are often designed to
be mobile to get round planning rules.
Correct!
I'm not sure I'd map this mobile type as it
I think that as many cinemas vary the showing times, and I expect most
have websites now, a link to the cinema's own web site would be more
suitable.
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote:
+1, e.g. there is a cannon in Rome on the gianicolo hill that is fired
once every day at noon (but I guess they don't put a ball in) in
remembrance of the Italian unification.
I suspect most fixed cannon still
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
Looking at the old proposal page for
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:pitlatrine
I see a an alternative of:
toilets:type=[flush,pit,chemical,bucket]
Thus we might have:
*amenity=toilets*
*toilets:type=pit*
I think we should be able to make the age range explicit, via an age=
tag, e.g. age=1-4 rather than only making it implicit through terms such
as kindergarten.
Otherwise, looks good to me.
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How should we map roadside catering trailers, that are either left at a
fixed location, or brought to the same location every day (or every
weekday)? They're a regular part of UK road culture.
Typically, they serve bacon rolls, sausages, etc, and tea and coffee, and
are usually open from
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
Could we avoid moving features in OSM ? Otherwise the same object, a
trailer, will be mapped in several places.
The ones I'm thinking of mapping are either physically in the form of
trailers, but static (i.e they have wheels but
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:44 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.comwrote:
Perhaps we need a tag to indicate a catering vehicle location, as opposed
to the vehicle itself?
The idea of highway=bus_stop with cuisine=hot_dogs amuses me, but I
don't think it's really the right tagging.
:-)
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Peter Wendorff
wendo...@uni-paderborn.dewrote:
With this it would be:
- max_weight: the maximum weight of the complete vehicle (including
truck and trailer, in the German traffic rules (Straßenverkehrsordnung,
StVO) that's a Zug; if I interpret my dictionary
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:33 PM, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hey
Could an BE-speaking person please tell me what the right spelling for
broad_leafed is. Numbers are almost even in the data. Probably, a nice
task for a bot.
I'm pretty sure it's broad-leaved. The other sounds only
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:47 PM, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 07.07.2013 18:33, schrieb fly:
Hey
Could an BE-speaking person please tell me what the right spelling for
broad_leafed is. Numbers are almost even in the data. Probably, a nice
task for a bot.
Sorry, numbers are
It would probably be good to re-open discussion (and add your voice to
it, particularly as you have an interest in using such a tag); after
that, I think this one could be ready to vote on.
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On 7/9/13, alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks. I'm beginning to get a better
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.comwrote:
Again, thanks for all the discussion. I'm following most of it. ;) I
think...
Could I attempt to articulate what I consider the major confusion in the
existing kindergarten tag? Perhaps this is already known, but
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 11:04 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Pubs that are over foodie, tables laid etc, should in my opinion be
tagged as restaurants. Those have lost their primary focus as a place to
go for a
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm currently mapping the protected monuments in Belgium. One of the
buildings you encounter are vicarages. I looked at taginfo, but couldn't
find an appropriate tag.
or presbytery ?
...
It's for roman-catholic pastors
I'd prefer to indicate a transformer mounted on a pole with either:
power=transformer
layer=1
or
power=pole
transformer=yes
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:14 PM, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd prefer to indicate a transformer mounted on a pole with either:
power=transformer
layer=1
You didn't catch that the node is primarily tagged
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:53 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
If you have the layer=1 on the node, renderers may decide that the entire
node, including the pole, are on layer 1.
Good point! Agreed.
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I recently found that a way I'd marked as a minor power line (from
Bing) is actually a telephone line (from survey), which we seem to
have a convention of not mapping. Should I just delete it, or tag it
just so that no-one else seeing it on Bing will map it as a power line
in the future?
More
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Kytömaa Lauri lauri.kyto...@aalto.fi wrote:
People map what is of interest to them. Just use a tag that doesn't already
mean something different.
Threre is also people who doesn't want
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:58 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
One can tag the maximum width that can fit through, given zero length, and
can tag the maximum length that can fit through, given zero width, but a
trailer that has BOTH the maximum length and maximum width will not
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:35 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote:
But what if the pole has both telephone and power on it? ;) That's what's
common here in my neighborhood. I can look out my front door and see a pole
with both of them using it.
For that, I'd suggest man_made=pole
+1 for franchise=; that covers all types of franchises, and keeps
clear of operator=.
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On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:59 AM, François Lacombe
francois.laco...@telecom-bretagne.eu wrote:
Operator could be given by operator=* and the effective owner by a new
owner=* tag.
What about when a business is owned by one entity, but operated on
their behalf by another, in a building that they
I'm not sure whether this should have its own tag; how different is it
from either an underground pipeline or an underground canal?
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We could also tag whether they are horizontal axis (windmill-style) or
vertical-axis (Savonius rotor) turbines. This could be helpful for
people looking for landmarks, as the two types look very different.
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Sich devices could be mapped using a relation to link them to their
control centre; this would be enough to imply that they are remote
controlled.
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
If I get you right, these shops are not mainly telephone card shops, but
other shops that also sell telephone cards and/or phone credit. In this case
I'd use an attribute, e.g. sell:telephone_card or
On 2/7/14, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Or perhaps belfry:bells=8 to indicate the number of
bells in the peal, or belfry:tenor=1000 for the weight of the largest
bell in kg (typical UK)?
The weight of the tenor is significant to ringers (I'm a lapsed ringer
myself) but giving it kg
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:09 PM, ael law_ence@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:34:24AM +, jonathan wrote:
Here's my take from an Englishman!
While the term dirt road is used here, it is much rarer as all
From another English person, I would say that dirt in British
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:44 PM, John Willis jo...@mac.com wrote:
Since OSM uses British English, what word would you pair with road, as in
dirt road?
Earthen road?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Either compacted earth road (more specific) or unsurfaced road
(which I prefer); or green lane
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote:
Byway looks like a highway=service + service=byway + surface=unpaved to me.
They're not necessarily service roads --- they don't have to lead to
any premises at all; they're simply minor roads, usually unsealed.
__John
I reckon that if it isn't an abbreviation for any extant longer name, it is
no longer an abbreviation, and has become the full name in its own right.
On 18 Jun 2014 10:06, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
After a quick search:
As a native English speaker, I's only use fireplace for an indoor feature
of a building: and a fire pit would be sunken into the ground, whereas a
BBQ grill is a structure above the ground, either a portable metal one or a
permanent brick one.
__John
On 23 Jun 2014 11:44, Andreas Goss
I'd call that a barbecue, as it's above ground.
__John
On 23 Jun 2014 13:37, Andreas Goss andi...@t-online.de wrote:
a fire pit would be sunken into the ground
Could that also sometimes (often?) be used for BBQ?
What would you call this: http://www.grillplatzverzeichnis.de/
British English: locker. I've never before encountered the word
lockbox; I'd use safe deposit box or perhaps safebox for the
ones in a bank.
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't like this way of mapping. There might be some overlaps, what if one
aerodrome has a military and a public part?
Agreed -- I know at least one that is.
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Some monasteries have quite extensive grounds which are within the
monastic enclosure, that is, private to the monastic community and
subject to the same rules as the monastery (e.g. if it's a silent
order, that area of the grounds will be silent).
__John
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jesse B. Crawford je...@jbcrawford.us wrote:
As a perhaps helpful example, near my old home in Portland, OR, USA there
was a retreat facility operated by the catholic diocese. It featured
extensive grounds that you might call a park, except that they were fenced
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Martin Vonwald imagic@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe not completely obvious, but I would agree with Janko. In my opinion, a
tunnel is man-made, while a cave is not.
On the whole, yes, but there are some artificial underground cavities
that are referred to as
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote:
landcover=forest
anywhere there's trees on the ground
This doesn't agree with my (British English) understanding of the
terms; a wood can be small, but a forest is always large. Small and
large being loosely
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Andreas Labres l...@lab.at wrote:
Any suggestion how to tag a transport company (a company forwarding goods,
don't
know how you call these guys from the Güterbeförderungsgewerbe like DPD etc.
in English)?
The companies often refer to their sector as
Wouldn't it be simplest to leave the religion or denomination tag
out, if the facility isn't specific to a particular religion or
denomination?
__John
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
On 09/01/2015 01:53, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote on
Here's another variation: the courtyard of Limerick's Milk Market:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/115572313
It was originally open at the top, but now has a canopy that covers
most of it; and it's not a leisure facility.
__John
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Friedrich Volkmann
I think it would be good to mark these, with a suitable description;
prohibited, no, or closed perhaps? If it's still a landmark that
people will recognize as a campsite, it can be useful for navigation,
and it may help to implement the prohibition, in that people turning
up there will have some
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