Re: [Talk-us] Who controls data: Google Maps, others erasing Hollywood sign, but it's in OSM

2014-11-28 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-11-27 18:04 GMT+01:00 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com: Could you include the new node in the relation as role=label? That's at least somewhat documented... mapping labels is generally disputed, as a label is something the dataconsumer creates to display information, it is not

Re: [Talk-us] Updating tagging of public transport

2014-11-28 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-11-27 21:08 GMT+01:00 Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.com: Not sure if this is the right list or the tagging list is better, but I see some bus and subway routes in the Atlanta area that use the older version of tagging public transport routes. Should these be updated to use the newer

Re: [Talk-us] OSM topics at Kansas Linux Fest

2014-11-28 Thread Mike Dupont
The location is at the Lawrence public library in the new confrence room, http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/51126839 On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I'm tentatively scheduled to work that day...could you narrow down the location in Kansas? On Thu, Nov

Re: [Talk-us] Updating tagging of public transport

2014-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Throwing my hat into this one, I'm thinking the new style also reuses some of the old style tags and conventions. That said, since I'm not trying to automate a driverless bus fleet, I tend to only use the old style method. Coincidentally, this generally works out well for most situations and is

Re: [Talk-us] Who controls data: Google Maps, others erasing Hollywood sign, but it's in OSM

2014-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Well, I think a a huge difference between the Hollywood Sign and Mount Rushmore is Mount Rushmore is clearly a site dedicated to the monument. The Hollywood Sign, IIRC, is on public property left flat save for the sign, with no special status. Furthermore, the individual letters are obviously

Re: [Talk-us] Who controls data: Google Maps, others erasing Hollywood sign, but it's in OSM

2014-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm willing to argue both cases. Having a role=label relation may be useful where it may be otherwise ambiguous to properly form a cogent label. However, in the Hollywood sign's case, just rendering each letter as a label would be obvious to most people (albeit somewhat unusual) and helpful