Re: [Tagging] 0-0 address lines

2010-12-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Hi, > You might want to ask the talk-ca list... instead of tagging list :) > Why would I want to subscribe to talk-ca just to ask a tagging question? > > It's the default value for CanVec when the data is not available. So why is it being imp

Re: [Tagging] 0-0 address lines

2010-12-20 Thread Sam Vekemans
... and the reason for having a '0' was to show where (geometrically) it will be. So if people do know what the housenumber range actually is (or want to extrapolate it from statsCan) they are welcome to. cheers, Sam On 12/20/10, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Hi, > You might want to ask the talk-ca lis

Re: [Tagging] 0-0 address lines

2010-12-20 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, You might want to ask the talk-ca list... instead of tagging list :) It's the default value for CanVec when the data is not available. Every 6 months, the source data (as Natural Resources Canada made .osm files) gets updated. So more provinces will have housenumbers, in time :) ... the 1st p

[Tagging] 0-0 address lines

2010-12-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
There are a lot of ways in Canada like http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/71852646 that have addr:housenumber = 0 at both ends. Is this a bad import or legitimate way of tagging? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openst

Re: [Tagging] Deprecated features - highway=disused

2010-12-20 Thread Colin Smale
As the concept of "disused" could apply to millions of different things, I would prefer to see a more generic system which could be applied uniformly. I would like to see the "life_cycle" tag resurrected (proposed in 2008) something like this: life_cycle=planned (only exists on paper) l

Re: [Tagging] Deprecated features - highway=disused

2010-12-20 Thread john
It is not uncommon for stretches of old highways to become private roads if existing driveways still connect to them, or to be closed to motor traffic but be used as hiking or bicycle trails. The latter usage is particularly common with old bridges. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [T

Re: [Tagging] Deprecated features - highway=disused

2010-12-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I'm afraid I don't see the problem with highway=disused. It's clear what it means by analogy with railway=disused (there's something remaining, most likely pavement, but it's no longer a usable highway). Alternately highway=service (or something else, though most classifications don't apply to disu

Re: [Tagging] Deprecated features - highway=disused

2010-12-20 Thread Craig Wallace
On 20/12/2010 22:23, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: I came across http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Disused_road today. I applied the proposal page template, indicating that the proposal had been obsoleted, as noted in the commentary on the page. Looking at the tag info for

[Tagging] Deprecated features - highway=disused

2010-12-20 Thread dies38061
I came across http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Disused_road today. I applied the proposal page template, indicating that the proposal had been obsoleted, as noted in the commentary on the page. Looking at the tag info for highway (http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/highwa

Re: [Tagging] RFC: Rendering locks in Mapnik/Osmarender

2010-12-20 Thread Lennard
On 20-12-2010 22:29, Wyo wrote: Hmm, no remarks at all. Now what shall i do next to get this into renderers? In the case of mapnik: wait. The current version used on osm.org cannot rotate symbols, and we haven't transitioned to the yet-to-be-released mapnik2 either. -- Lennard ___

Re: [Tagging] RFC: Rendering locks in Mapnik/Osmarender

2010-12-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Wyo wrote: > Hmm, no remarks at all. Now what shall i do next to get this into > renderers? Write and submit good-quality patches for Mapnik itself, osm2pgsql and the standard stylesheet. I believe Mapnik itself isn't yet capable of rotated icons (see slide 8 at http://www.slideshare.net/steve8/m

Re: [Tagging] Operator in leisure=stadium?

2010-12-20 Thread Diego Woitasen
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Diego Woitasen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Robert Elsenaar wrote: >> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/ >> >> Robert >> >> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: Alan Mintz >> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 6:46 AM >> To: Tag discussion, strategy and

Re: [Tagging] RFC: Rendering locks in Mapnik/Osmarender

2010-12-20 Thread Wyo
Wyo wrote: I've set up a proposal for rendering locks on waterways in Mapnik/Osmarender. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Rendering_locks_in_Mapnik Rendering lock on waterway seems to me a rather important feature when planning holidays nearby. Locks are not only important t

Re: [Tagging] bridge=aqueduct mapped as polygon riverbank?

2010-12-20 Thread Wyo
yvecai wrote: In any case, for routing it is better to keep a way waterway=canal in the middle, no? Sure, any type of waterway. Some add a tag "boat=yes" albeit I don't think its sufficient since boats can be any size. There's a german article in Wikipedia which describes them better (http://d

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] "refs" describing routes instead of ways

2010-12-20 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm wondering why we still are trying the whole "describe the route on > the way" method of handling the ref= tag on ways. Because it is currently the only way to get any kind of highway shield rendered. Get relation-based shield rendering

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] "refs" describing routes instead of ways

2010-12-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > the way's ACTUAL reference number. Meaning? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging