Re: [Tagging] Tagging natural or informal swimming holes?

2014-04-25 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Philip Barnes wrote: > Forgetting the tagging for a moment, is it not irresponsible to be > mapping and thus being seen as encouraging such activities? > > Every year when there is hot weather there are warnings not to swim in > lakes and rivers, and these are ine

Re: [Tagging] Tagging natural or informal swimming holes?

2014-04-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > How best should I tag informal swimming areas? These typically have no > lifeguard or facilities. An example deep-content site for these types of > holes is: > http://www.iforgotthename.com/ > > In OSM is it best to create an area and tag >

Re: [Tagging] Tagging natural or informal swimming holes?

2014-04-25 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-04-25 08:03, Bryce Nesbitt wrote : How best should I tag informal swimming areas?  These typically have no lifeguard or facilities. An example deep-content site for these types of holes is: http://www.iforgotth

Re: [Tagging] Feature proposal - Street Cabinets - RFC

2014-04-25 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 04:27:59PM +0200, François Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > The Street Cabinet proposal came to Proposed status. > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_cabinet > > Briefly, it introduce a new man_made value : street_cabinet, to map all > stuff install

[Tagging] Feature proposal - Street Cabinets - RFC

2014-04-25 Thread François Lacombe
Hi, The Street Cabinet proposal came to Proposed status. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_cabinet Briefly, it introduce a new man_made value : street_cabinet, to map all stuff installed in streets (often on pavements) and hosting several kind of utility devices. street

[Tagging] deforestation tag

2014-04-25 Thread Tom Gertin
Hello, I am working on validating Tile in Punia, DRC ( http://mapgive.state.gov/learn-to-map/#select-a-task). One of the issues I have is that people are marking some deforested areas in some odd ways: -landuse = farm -area = yes, named = Burned forest -landuse = grass -natural = land is th

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Tagging natural or informal swimming holes?

2014-04-25 Thread Yves
On the contrary, where there's water you can technically swim. I'm not against mapping informal places, but they should be well known for such activities. On 25 avril 2014 15:07:15 UTC+02:00, Philip Barnes wrote: >On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 23:03 -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: >> How best should I tag

Re: [Tagging] Tagging natural or informal swimming holes?

2014-04-25 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 23:03 -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > How best should I tag informal swimming areas? These typically have > no lifeguard or facilities. An example deep-content site for these > types of holes is: > http://www.iforgotthename.com/ > > > In OSM is it best to create an area and t

Re: [Tagging] Tagging natural or informal swimming holes?

2014-04-25 Thread Richard Z.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:03:50PM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > How best should I tag informal swimming areas? These typically have no > lifeguard or facilities. An example deep-content site for these types of > holes is: > http://www.iforgotthename.com/ > > In OSM is it best to create an area a