Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-26 Thread Dave Swarthout
Haha, you should see how Google Translate mangles Thai to English or vice-versa! On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > Am 25.09.2015 um 12:02 schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > > > > There is little trouble

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-25 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:52:31 +0200 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I believe the primary page should always be English and the other > languages for the same page should be translations. Actually I > thought this was already decided. I am pretty sure that English is already

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-25 Thread Warin
On 25/09/2015 5:12 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:52:31 +0200 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I believe the primary page should always be English and the other languages for the same page should be translations. Actually I thought this was already

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-09-25 11:00 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > There was far more detail on the Russian page than on the English page, > > leading me to believe that the Russians are leading .. at least on this > tag. > > Personally I see no reason why English has to be the primary page. > because

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread johnw
> On Sep 24, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote: > > Here in Thailand there are many nationalities beside English speakers that > make use of these offices, among them are large numbers of Burmese, > Cambodians, Germans, and Japanese. here in Japan it would be

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Warin
On 24/09/2015 2:25 PM, Warin wrote: On 24/09/2015 12:56 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote: I too have wanted to raise the level of consciousness about these offices. There are many in Thailand but their tagging is not uniform and that makes them difficult to find. amenity=immigration_office might be

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 24.09.2015 08:18, Warin wrote: > I have 'synced' the wiki page > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dgovernment with the Russian > source page. > It now reflects the use of the sub tag government= as documented on the > Russian page. Why does the yellow box say that the English

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Warin
On 25/09/2015 6:33 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: Thank you for all the help with this topic everyone. On 9/24/2015 6:25 AM, Warin wrote: Perhaps office=government government=immigration ? or government:immigration=yes would be better where the office functions are combined..

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 25.09.2015 um 00:21 schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > > Personally I think the wiki pages should say which language page is the > 'primary' page. > That would help those who want to check or comment on the page. I believe the primary page should always be

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Blake Girardot
Thank you for all the help with this topic everyone. On 9/24/2015 6:25 AM, Warin wrote: Perhaps office=government government=immigration ? or government:immigration=yes would be better where the office functions are combined.. government:passport=yes government:vehicle_licence=yes etc...

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-24 Thread Warin
On 25/09/2015 12:09 AM, Friedrich Volkmann wrote: On 24.09.2015 08:18, Warin wrote: I have 'synced' the wiki page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dgovernment with the Russian source page. It now reflects the use of the sub tag government= as documented on the Russian page. Why

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-23 Thread Warin
On 24/09/2015 12:56 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote: I too have wanted to raise the level of consciousness about these offices. There are many in Thailand but their tagging is not uniform and that makes them difficult to find. amenity=immigration_office might be a better choice IMO but either would

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-23 Thread Dave Swarthout
I too have wanted to raise the level of consciousness about these offices. There are many in Thailand but their tagging is not uniform and that makes them difficult to find. amenity=immigration_office might be a better choice IMO but either would help the current situation. As for the name tag,

Re: [Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

2015-09-23 Thread johnw
I’ve been wanting to make a amenity=immigration because usually foreign residents (and only foreign residents) go to such facilities - so local mappers are usually unaware of their existence or importance. These are places where people apply for new visas, extensions to existing visas, and