Re: [Tagging] POIs

2012-12-07 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi, On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Janko Mihelić wrote: > How would you connect POIs that have no address? > Janko Logically, you would make the connection through some kind of permanent ID - not literally an address. I believe there have been various discussions about permanent IDs, but no

Re: [Tagging] standpipes

2012-12-07 Thread Richard Welty
the definitions of Dry Riser and Standpipe are similar, but not identical: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standpipe_(firefighting) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_riser On 12/7/12 6:07 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: As a USian, I've only seen "dry riser" myself for this item... ___

Re: [Tagging] standpipes

2012-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
As a USian, I've only seen "dry riser" myself for this item... On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Graham Jones wrote: > This may be a UK/North America difference, but I would have called the > thing you describe a "dry riser", and a standpipe is just a short section > of rigid pipe to connect a hos

Re: [Tagging] standpipes

2012-12-07 Thread Graham Jones
This may be a UK/North America difference, but I would have called the thing you describe a "dry riser", and a standpipe is just a short section of rigid pipe to connect a hose to a (below ground level) fire hydrant. Graham -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.

[Tagging] standpipes

2012-12-07 Thread Richard Welty
i'd like to add a value to the emergency equipment tagging scheme: emergency=standpipe_inlet for those unaware of it, a standpipe system is generally built into modern high rise buildings. it is a way of feeding water into the building for fire emergencies, and is usually kept dry. should an e

Re: [Tagging] New relation type=provides_feature

2012-12-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Dave Sutter writes: > This may be a radical suggestion for OSM but I think POIs should be > removed from the map database and put in an external database. Each > POI should have an address and the address is used to match the POI to > the map. > > This can also be extended to ref tags, which are

Re: [Tagging] POIs

2012-12-07 Thread Janko Mihelić
How would you connect POIs that have no address? Janko 2012/12/7 ael > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:19:42PM -0800, Dave Sutter wrote: > > This may be a radical suggestion for OSM but I think POIs should be > > removed from the map database and put in an external database. Each > > POI should have

Re: [Tagging] New relation type=provides_feature

2012-12-07 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 7 December 2012 11:05, Henning Scholland wrote: > Am 06.12.2012 16:39, schrieb Markus Lindholm: >> >> Comments? > > Hi Markus, > > I think it's useful to have such a relation. But I would also include > building-polygon, like: > > building > entrance > target > address So the semantics of the

Re: [Tagging] New relation type=provides_feature

2012-12-07 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 7 December 2012 10:27, Pieren wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Markus Lindholm > wrote: > >> Created first example of provides_feature >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2623059 > > Your relation type name "provides_feature" is too vague and could be > used for all relatio

Re: [Tagging] New relation type=provides_feature

2012-12-07 Thread Henning Scholland
Am 06.12.2012 16:39, schrieb Markus Lindholm: Comments? Hi Markus, I think it's useful to have such a relation. But I would also include building-polygon, like: building entrance target address Maybe take a look at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Buildings which see

Re: [Tagging] New relation type=provides_feature

2012-12-07 Thread Henning Scholland
Am 06.12.2012 23:10, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: 2012/12/6 Markus Lindholm : Tags: type=provides_feature Members roles: target address entrance Comments? do you know the site relation? It might provide what you are after. I think it's the other way round. site-relation: 5 objects belong to

Re: [Tagging] New relation type=provides_feature

2012-12-07 Thread Henning Scholland
Am 07.12.2012 10:27, schrieb Pieren: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Markus Lindholm wrote: Created first example of provides_feature http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2623059 Your relation type name "provides_feature" is too vague and could be used for all relations... Anyway, mos

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways (2nd Part)

2012-12-07 Thread Johan C
I've uploaded my example to this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lane_assist I would also like to add a link to this page from the motorway_link page, since lane assist will be supported: Mapfactor has started working on it. Any comments are still welcome! 2012/11/9 Johan C > After r

Re: [Tagging] POIs

2012-12-07 Thread ael
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:19:42PM -0800, Dave Sutter wrote: > This may be a radical suggestion for OSM but I think POIs should be > removed from the map database and put in an external database. Each > POI should have an address and the address is used to match the POI to > the map. Should this b

Re: [Tagging] New relation type=provides_feature

2012-12-07 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Markus Lindholm wrote: > Created first example of provides_feature > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2623059 Your relation type name "provides_feature" is too vague and could be used for all relations... Anyway, most of the mappers will prefer to crea

Re: [Tagging] on-call bicycle ferry service

2012-12-07 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 07/dic/2012 um 03:23 schrieb Steve Bennett : > It sounds more like a water taxi. I'm not sure if that's a widely used term > in Europe, but they exist on some rivers here - you call up, it comes and > gets you. Not normally for bikes, but that still. In Venice there are both, and they sho