Re: [OSM-talk] Playing tagging democracy: standard building process and tag unifying towards it

2010-02-07 Thread SteveC
On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Dave F. wrote: This won't happen if none of the map creators are taking the data because they think it's crap. Saying 'none' is exceptional hyperbole. Yours c. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Playing tagging democracy: standard building process and tag unifying towards it

2010-02-03 Thread Dave F.
John Smith wrote: No but it's a carrot, most people most of the time are only going to map what they can see turn up on mapnik. This point is correct, to bring the thread back to on topic, OSM is best promoted, not by word of mouth as some have said, but by visualization mouth. People

Re: [OSM-talk] Playing tagging democracy: standard building process and tag unifying towards it

2010-02-03 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 3 February 2010 15:38, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: John Smith wrote: No but it's a carrot, most people most of the time are only going to map what they can see turn up on mapnik. This point is correct, to bring the thread back to on topic, OSM is best promoted, not by word

Re: [OSM-talk] Playing tagging democracy: standard building process and tag unifying towards it

2010-02-03 Thread Dave F.
Emilie Laffray wrote: On 3 February 2010 15:38, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com mailto:dave...@madasafish.com wrote: John Smith wrote: No but it's a carrot, most people most of the time are only going to map what they can see turn up on mapnik. This point is

Re: [OSM-talk] Playing tagging democracy: standard building process and tag unifying towards it

2010-02-03 Thread Jochen Plumeyer
Hi, so what about creating a small web application (data exportable into Excel etc.), with a database containing tagging schemes, their idioms, and possible aquivalent semantics? We can get the tagging statistics from tagwatch (I think this won't be enough, I think they do only statistics

Re: [OSM-talk] Playing tagging democracy: standard building process and tag unifying towards it

2010-02-02 Thread Claudius
Am 02.02.2010 22:24, Jochen Plumeyer: Hello everyone, I am new to the OSM community, sorry if my suggestions are totally naïve. Fact: The collective end product is rendered somehow, and the renderer stylesheets decide, how to interprete tags. So it seems to me, that creating 2 things is

Re: [OSM-talk] Playing tagging democracy: standard building process and tag unifying towards it

2010-02-02 Thread Milo van der Linden
Claudius, You made an excellent statement I completely agree with! For a lot of us, the fun comes in when you can take this pile of beautiful and divers geodata and create your own map styles. You can even create maps of specific objects and types. Jochen; Consider looking at the beatiful

Re: [OSM-talk] Playing tagging democracy: standard building process and tag unifying towards it

2010-02-02 Thread John Smith
On 3 February 2010 07:45, Claudius claudiu...@gmx.de wrote: Just a sidenote: Although it seems to be the showcase of OSM the mapnik rendering at www.openstreetmap.org is *NOT* what OSM is about. OSM is No but it's a carrot, most people most of the time are only going to map what they can see