Re: [Tagging] That stupid 'quarter' tag has been approved

2012-05-27 Thread Russ Nelson
Nathan Edgars II writes: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/place%3Dquarter#Voting_result So? The wiki is the place for documenting how YOU map, not how other people SHOULD map. The only thing you SHOULDN'T do in the wiki is change the description of how other people map. --

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Railway start and end dates?

2012-05-27 Thread Russ Nelson
Nathan Edgars II writes: > Why when the tracks were removed? What if a bridge was washed out and > the tracks beyond were left to rust? What about (say) the Brooklyn Cooperage line out of St. Regis Falls? It was lain, torn up supposedly for good, and laid down again. start_date1 and start_date

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Railway start and end dates?

2012-05-27 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > And you don't need start_date:railway, because you've already created > a relation for most every railway, so put start_date on the relation. > That's an excellent suggestion from a data point of view too. -- Bill @n1vux bill.n1...@gmail.co

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] Railway start and end dates?

2012-05-27 Thread Russ Nelson
Nathan Edgars II writes: > I'm considering using http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:start_date > and end_date for some railways, but there seems to be too much > ambiguity. First, if it's now a highway=*, I'd use start_date:railway > for when the line opened. But on a railway=disused, wo

Re: [Tagging] Cycle lanes & cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

2012-05-27 Thread fly
On 26/05/12 16:03, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > Hi All, > > Sorry for the late reply after starting this thread a few days ago. > > I was surprised to see how far this topic has expanded (even into OSM should > have fault lines so we can re-align after earthquakes!), so I just want to > refocus on c

Re: [Tagging] Update of article highway=mini_roundabout

2012-05-27 Thread Craig Wallace
On 27/05/2012 15:03, Philip Barnes wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 13:43 -0400, Anthony wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Martin Vonwald wrote: I'll just want to let you know, that I reworked the article about mini-roundabouts and want to update it within the next days. You can find it here

Re: [Tagging] Update of article highway=mini_roundabout

2012-05-27 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 13:43 -0400, Anthony wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Martin Vonwald wrote: > > I'll just want to let you know, that I reworked the article about > > mini-roundabouts and want to update it within the next days. You can > > find it here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/