[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Street area

2015-08-30 Thread Tobias Knerr
On behalf of the proposal author, I would like to introduce you to the following proposal, which intends to formalize the area:highway tag: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_area The idea to use areas tagged as area:highway in addition to the highway way is almost 5 year

Re: [Tagging] Shop vs amenity

2015-08-30 Thread John Eldredge
From my experience, department stores allow you to pay separately in each department, but don't generally require you to do so, except for items that are both valuable and easily concealed, such as jewelry. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only lig

Re: [Tagging] highway=footway - Advanced definition: Distinction footway vs path

2015-08-30 Thread Bryan Housel
Maybe some places, but I would not assume that everywhere works that way. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 30, 2015, at 6:51 PM, John Eldredge wrote: > > With the added connotation that ONLY the designated transportation methods > are allowed. > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com >

Re: [Tagging] Access tags (general question, but mostly regarding bicycle)

2015-08-30 Thread John Eldredge
Saying "allowed" as the prefix would be less ambiguous than "access", as many people are likely to interpret "access" as "is access possible". After all, referring to a location as "not wheelchair-accessible" means that it difficult to get to via wheelchair, not that wheelchair use is forbidde

Re: [Tagging] Construction

2015-08-30 Thread Dave F.
What's a 'trolltag'? --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Buildings mixing residential and commercial use

2015-08-30 Thread Warin
On 31/08/2015 8:58 AM, John Willis wrote: On Aug 31, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: uilding=commercial is quite suspect. To me, there are 2 basic types of mixed use buildings. mixed_use_urban And mixed_use_house There are so many different combinations of retail, residential,

Re: [Tagging] Construction

2015-08-30 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
> > On Aug 29, 2015, at 12:08 AM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: > > > > Gardiner is still highway=motorway > > If the construction doesn't impact the maxspeed, the lanes, the alignment, nor the classification of the road - then its not really under construction. If the road changes alignment for a long

Re: [Tagging] Construction

2015-08-30 Thread John Willis
> On Aug 29, 2015, at 12:08 AM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: > > Gardiner is still highway=motorway If the construction doesn't impact the maxspeed, the lanes, the alignment, nor the classification of the road - then its not really under construction. If the road changes alignment for a long time

Re: [Tagging] Buildings mixing residential and commercial use

2015-08-30 Thread John Willis
> On Aug 31, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > uilding=commercial is quite suspect. To me, there are 2 basic types of mixed use buildings. mixed_use_urban And mixed_use_house There are so many different combinations of retail, residential, hotel, and commercial (and in come c

Re: [Tagging] Shop vs amenity

2015-08-30 Thread John Eldredge
Here in Nashville, TN, USA, back when the department stores were all located in the central business district, they indeed tended to be multistory. Starting in the 1970s, the downtown department stores either went out of business or migrated to the suburbs, where land was cheaper, and one-to-t

Re: [Tagging] highway=footway - Advanced definition: Distinction footway vs path

2015-08-30 Thread John Eldredge
With the added connotation that ONLY the designated transportation methods are allowed. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. On August 27, 2015 3

Re: [Tagging] Construction

2015-08-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: > Is there any way to tag roads as being under construction but which > are not closed to traffic? construction=minor. Also, if known, consider access:lanes=yes|no|no (vary as appropriate) as well. ___

Re: [Tagging] Buildings mixing residential and commercial use

2015-08-30 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:43:34 -0300 Severin Menard wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to tag properly buildings mixing residential and > commercial uses (typically shops on the basement opening on the > street)? Building=commercial is defined as "A building where > non-specific commercial activities

[Tagging] Buildings mixing residential and commercial use

2015-08-30 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Is there a way to tag properly buildings mixing residential and commercial uses (typically shops on the basement opening on the street)? Building=commercial is defined as "A building where non-specific commercial activities take place", that does not describe what are the other activities taki

Re: [Tagging] Shop vs amenity

2015-08-30 Thread Warin
On 30/08/2015 9:07 PM, johnw wrote: On Aug 30, 2015, at 4:55 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com>> wrote: indeed the buildings are just buildings (eventually with own names, start dates and other attributes) , it's not them to put the name for the "whole" complex on. But I

Re: [Tagging] Shop vs amenity

2015-08-30 Thread johnw
> On Aug 30, 2015, at 4:55 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > indeed the buildings are just buildings (eventually with own names, start > dates and other attributes) , it's not them to put the name for the "whole" > complex on. But IMHO it's neither a landuse object, it's an object with a

Re: [Tagging] Shop vs amenity

2015-08-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 30.08.2015 um 01:27 schrieb John Willis : > > Why should the pattern for mapping industrial complexes be any different for > residential? Civic/government? Schools? Hospitals? None of the buildings in > any of those examples, when grouped together into a named complex,

Re: [Tagging] Shop vs amenity

2015-08-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 30.08.2015 um 01:27 schrieb John Willis : > > A mall sits on one named landuse=retail. a mall is retail landuse the tag for the mall is shop=mall > A factory sits on landuse=industrial. a factory is industrial landuse the tag is man_made=works ... > A "gated co