Re: [Tagging] Landuse vs Vegetation vs Landcover proposed cleanup at wiki

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[Tagging] Landuse vs Vegetation vs Landcover proposed cleanup at wiki

We have highly inconsistent content at wiki (feature pages ). Inconsistency is not limited to landuse=wood/natural=forest. Another example is landuse=meadow (Landuse , Vegetation

Re: [Tagging] path vs footway

Interesting! Those are huge cycle ways! Here in japan, they designate small service roads normally blocked with bollards as cycle ways, as the distances covered between the intersecting roads are very long (1-2km sometimes) and sometimes more direct than the road system - but nothing more a path

Re: [Tagging] sub key for cycle ways

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Hubert wrote: > Mo 03.11.2014 20:18 fly : > > > Either just let your proposal exist and start using it or simply use the > lanes:-tagging like > > > > biycle:lanes=yes|yes|designated > > Can I do that, even if the proposal was rejected? > It would leave the proble

Re: [Tagging] path vs footway

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Richard Mann < richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting interpretation of history. Slightly different version: > > The path tag was introduced by people who couldn't deal with > highway=cycleway being shared with pedestrians, and wanted something less

Re: [Tagging] path vs footway

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:14 PM, johnw wrote: > AFIK - footway and path are more toward the width, surface, smoothness, > maintenance level, and expected use of the way. a sidewalk often gets > tagged as footpath, as would be a concrete walkway in a garden. > > Paths are usually less maintained, l

[Tagging] How one should tag different sections of library?

There is a large library with multiple sections (for children, for adults, foreign language books, reading room, movie/music borrowing, newspaper section etc etc). There are separate accounts for separate sections, different opening hours. But it is managed by one institution, everything is in the

Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

On 29/11/2014, Lukas Sommer wrote: > Okay. I’ll try a summary: [...] Thanks for those insights. Note that this multiple-values discussion has gone beyond the alt_name key (which is itself a multiple-value key for the name key, making 'multiple alt_name values' kind of silly), so you should look

Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

Or would it be better – if a consens is difficult – to wait until a general resolution for the problem “one key with more than one value” has come up? Lukas Sommer 2014-11-29 5:03 GMT+00:00 Brian Quinion : > On 29 Nov 2014 00:26, "Lukas Sommer" wrote: > > > > Okay. I’ll try a summary: > > > > W