Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-23 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 22 August 2013 10:03, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: website=xxx - which will give the details (if we could access them from the map) I'm not sure if I can quote the website in this case as Google may have a database copyright on it. I generally only quote websites if they are

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-23 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 22 August 2013 15:46, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: In the West Midlands we have dozens of these which cater mainly for Asian weddings and celebrations where large extended families have to be catered for. Probably the same in most large urban areas. I generally just tag them as

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-23 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 22 August 2013 18:57, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: I am not sure what your issue was with highway=path etc, but do you mean rationalising as in the sense of reducing the number of tags, thus losing (subtle) distinctions? I can't see how that is the same as the phone number

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-23 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 22 August 2013 10:03, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: website=xxx - which will give the details (if we could access them from the map) If you access it from http://www.openlinkmap.org/ you can access them from the map (and also phone numbers).

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Colin Smale wrote: Calling the transformation from OSM data to international format trivial does not do justice to the creativity of mappers when entering phone numbers or to telecoms regulators when defining numbering plans. A quick gander at

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

2013-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
OpenStreetmap HADW wrote: website=xxx - which will give the details (if we could access them from the map) If you access it fromhttp://www.openlinkmap.org/ you can access them from the map (and also phone numbers). How long have I been using OSM and I've not found out about this ... But I

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Bivand
I've been trying to map phone numbers in +44 style for businesses (where it may be as useful as operator= as well as name=. However, I normally ignore spacing because the concept of area code is dying. I haven't even heard it being used for snob purposes recently (as signifying the wrong side

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-23 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 23 August 2013 22:15, Paul Bivand paul.biv...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: However, I normally ignore spacing because the concept of area code is dying. There is a secondary reason for spacing and that is that short term memory can only cope with about 7 things at once, so it is a good idea to

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
OpenStreetmap HADW wrote: Whilst most London people don't realise that they can abbreviated numbers, I believe it is still common to miss the area code, once you get outside a director area (although that might just be a generational thing, with older users less likely to be using mobile