Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-03-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Not to bikeshed this, but is the direction of the hinge important? At least around the northwest, due to the prevailing drizzle, cabinet doors on certain utility cabinets open upwards to provide at least some weather protection to the equipment while under maintenance. On Feb 9, 2014 12:43 PM,

Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-02-11 Thread Jon Stockill
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 18:31:25 +0100, François Lacombe wrote: Hi, I was pretty frustrated to dont encounter any common tag to map street cabinets (trafic lights control, water metering, phone connection points...) in my city. I was looking for something like man_made=street_cabinet or whatever

Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-02-10 Thread Lester Caine
François Lacombe wrote: For electricity, we do have power=cable_distribution_cabinet but IMHO it's definitely to specific. It would be replaced by man_made=street_cabinet + street_cabinet=power_distribution (+ operator=* + ref=* if applicable) Sounds a very reasonable expansion allowing finer

Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-02-10 Thread François Lacombe
Well, the proposal has been created and hosted on this page : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_cabinet It's obviously a draft yet, many elements are missing. I will ask @tagging a few more additional tags. Thank you for your feedbacks and feel free to use Talk page.

Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-02-10 Thread Gregory Williams
...@telecom-bretagne.eu] Sent: 10 February 2014 15:38 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets Well, the proposal has been created and hosted on this page : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_cabinet It's obviously a draft yet, many elements

Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-02-10 Thread François Lacombe
quality monitoring: man_made=monitoring_station + monitoring:air_quality=* Cheers, Gregory *From:* François Lacombe [mailto:francois.laco...@telecom-bretagne.eu] *Sent:* 10 February 2014 15:38 *To:* talk@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets Well, the proposal

[OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-02-09 Thread François Lacombe
Hi, I was pretty frustrated to don't encounter any common tag to map street cabinets (trafic lights control, water metering, phone connection points...) in my city. I was looking for something like man_made=street_cabinet or whatever but it's not widely used in the DB. Should I propose this new

Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-02-09 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Murry McEntire murry.mcent...@gmail.com wrote: Street cabinet has no meaning in my region. He's talking about something like this (but outdoor only): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure_%28electrical%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electricalenclosure.JPG

Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-02-09 Thread François Lacombe
According to Pieren pics, only surface enclosures with vertical hinged doors are concerned by this proposal. For a subsurface enclosure, I would use building=yes + location=underground by default. A subsurface enclosure often offers enough space to go down inside, thus it's more a building than a

Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-02-09 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 11:42 -0700, Murry McEntire wrote: Street cabinet has no meaning in my region. Looking at manufacturer's sites and google images, I do see the term in use in Britain (and some other places) for above ground enclosures with vertical hinged doors. Did you also mean to

Re: [OSM-talk] Street cabinets

2014-02-09 Thread François Lacombe
Thank for those details Philip. How would you call things like that ? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:French_gas_delivery_point.jpg I would looking for the most general term to add it to man_made and then qualify its nature with a second tag like street_cabinet=* Thirdly,