Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Cartinus wrote: > I don't know about documentation, but it is in the list of presets in JOSM. > Yeah, I find this situation very weird. It seems there are four places to check when considering whether a tag exists: 1) The wiki (where it could be in the Map Feature

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/11/30 Cartinus > I would actually > prefer natural=meadow for the last, but since the preset in JOSM doesn't > show > what key is used for meadow, both natural and agricultural meadows are > tagged > with the same tag by a lot of people. Of course it is shown in JOSM: just have a look at t

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Cartinus
On Monday 30 November 2009 18:23:33 Steve Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Cartinus wrote: > > Map what you can verify: > > * Often these are expanses of grass with the occasional bush -> > > landuse=grass > > Not to be a pain, but that doesn't exist (or isn't documented). > landus

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Cartinus wrote: > Map what you can verify: > * Often these are expanses of grass with the occasional bush -> > landuse=grass > Not to be a pain, but that doesn't exist (or isn't documented). landuse=meadow I guess. That would actually satisfy a lot of my needs.

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Cartinus
On Monday 30 November 2009 15:24:02 Steve Bennett wrote: > Incidentally, what's the best way to map "nothing". Big, empty blocks on > the fringes of the city. Again, I want to distinguish between unmapped and > unoccupied. Some of them may be farms/agistment, some may be "greenfield", > some might

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/11/30 Ed Avis > > A house would be building=yes or perhaps building=house. But for a block > or a > larger area, yes, tagging the landuse is fine. > I'd suggest to tag detached house differently from terraced houses and other typologies, e.g. building=detached (currently 1425 uses accordin

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Ed Avis
Steve Bennett gmail.com> writes: >>I don't quite understand what you mean; if there is 'something' then why not >>just map that something? > >Heh, because I don't know what it is! It's often hard to tell the difference >between a large rural property, a farm, or even some kind of light industry.

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Someoneelse
Steve Bennett wrote: > Slightly related note, is it ok to use tags like "landuse=residential" > at vastly different levels of granularity. Ie, it could be a house, a > block, or what I've been doing at the moment, whole suburbs. People certainly do use landuse=residential like this, so I wouldn

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Steve Bennett
Incidentally, what's the best way to map "nothing". Big, empty blocks on the fringes of the city. Again, I want to distinguish between unmapped and unoccupied. Some of them may be farms/agistment, some may be "greenfield", some might be crown land, some might be owned but unoccupied. (Or maybe I w

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Ed Avis wrote: > Steve Bennett gmail.com> writes: > > >1) After tagging a building, I want to define the property boundary > >that the building sits in. In some cases, there's a landuse tag > >(landuse=commercial, residential), but how to tag a non-profit bowling

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/11/30 Ed Avis > >2) Sometimes there is one occupied block in the middle of large areas > >of nothingness. I want to tag the block to show that there is > >something there - ie, it's not unmapped. > > I don't quite understand what you mean; if there is 'something' then why > not > just map th

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-30 Thread Ed Avis
Steve Bennett gmail.com> writes: >1) After tagging a building, I want to define the property boundary >that the building sits in. In some cases, there's a landuse tag >(landuse=commercial, residential), but how to tag a non-profit bowling >club, a school, ...? Do you simply tag it amenity=school?

[OSM-talk] How to tag properties

2009-11-29 Thread Steve Bennett
I have a couple of recurrent scenarios: 1) After tagging a building, I want to define the property boundary that the building sits in. In some cases, there's a landuse tag (landuse=commercial, residential), but how to tag a non-profit bowling club, a school, ...? Do you simply tag it amenity=school