Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-17 Thread crom
Hi Nathan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_art http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7j8Kpp3vYU it might be helpfull, to map spots like that ;) --- Yes, it might be better to use separate tags. intermittent=yes (but I don´t like these yes-values, like: its a chair:yes etc. ) It looks

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-16 Thread Ilya Zverev
Hi! Since there were no comments for the last week, I've initiated a voting on the water=* proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details IZ ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-16 Thread crom
Hi Ilya, very nice! About the keys: funny is reflecting pool: instead reflecting pool I would suggest something like land_art, because water is used primary as an architectural- or design feature and - the reflection is not always and for everyone obvious? And what I´m still missing is a

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-16 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/16/2011 3:53 PM, crom wrote: Hi Ilya, very nice! About the keys: funny is reflecting pool: instead reflecting pool I would suggest something like land_art, because water is used primary as an architectural- or design feature and - the reflection is not always and for everyone obvious? As

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-04 Thread Dave F.
On 01/04/2011 16:04, Ilya Zverev wrote: It seems like I've messed up wording or just stated the purpose not clearly enough, since you are not the first to ask this question. Of course I'm aware of river mapping scheme. I do not propose to alter waterway=river/stream/anything. The main point of

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-04 Thread Ilya Zverev
Dave. F wrote: But also in this proposal I point out that waterway=riverbank does not differ much from natural=water, and suggest to map it with natural=water + water=river. This means you have multiple keys for river (water waterway). It also means your using river to describe two different

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-01 Thread Dave F.
On 01/04/2011 05:30, Ilya Zverev wrote: Hi. At some point we've been fed up with fixing name=Pond and such, so I guess it's time to be more specific about what natural=water is. I suggest a new detail tag, water=*. It's pretty straightforward, but there are some deprecations (which at this

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-01 Thread Ilya Zverev
Dave F. wrote: Aren't most of these in use already? water=river A body of river, which is currently mapped as waterway=riverbank. You seem to be unaware of waterway=river. Please refer to his for a complete tagging guide: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/1/2011 11:35 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: (not sure if fountain applies to the kind of big flat water areas you can typically find in front of castles which are positioned there to reflect the castle?) Those are called reflecting pools. ___

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-01 Thread Ilya Zverev
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:35:37 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: what natural=water on an area means. Is this area a lake, a pond? We have no means to determine that now. could you expand what a pond is? I get several translations for this, ranging from natural to

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/4/1 Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:35:37 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: what natural=water on an area means. Is this area a lake, a pond? We have no means to determine that now. could you expand what a pond is? I get several

Re: [Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-04-01 Thread Ilya Zverev
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:55:06 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: So looking at wikipedia also for lake I found that basically the main difference between the two is the size but also, how deep it is. If it were only the size this tag would not be needed, because unless you

[Tagging] New proposal: water=*

2011-03-31 Thread Ilya Zverev
Hi. At some point we've been fed up with fixing name=Pond and such, so I guess it's time to be more specific about what natural=water is. I suggest a new detail tag, water=*. It's pretty straightforward, but there are some deprecations (which at this point can't deprecate anything because there